Central Pricing Data Analyst needed at Woolworths
Job title : Central Pricing Data Analyst
Job Location : Western Cape,
Deadline : June 08, 2024
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Job description
Create and maintain a single source of truth for Foods Pricing data
- Collect, prepare and maintain pricing source data as input to the Pricing Dashboard.
- Maintain and enhance the Pricing Dashboard user interface to deliver intuitive, relevant and value-adding pricing insights.
- Manage the process of consolidating Role & Price Tier UDA attributes with the Commercial Pricing Specialists & sharing this info with Food Ops in a timeous manner.
- Management of the Pricing Basket indicators and ensuring they are maintained for accurate weekly basket reporting.
- Ensure quality, accuracy and consistency of information received. Ensure regular communication between stakeholders, ensuring that all relevant teams are aware of any data integrity issues which may affect price reporting & communication issues to all stakeholders.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Collaborate with Category Commercial Specialists & BI team to identify opportunities to enhance current functionality of the Competitor Dashboard & implement changes as required.
- Identify areas for BAU process improvement and implement solutions to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Keep abreast of competitor and leading industry Pricing strategies.
Build capabilities of Sales Development and Buying matrix teams to leverage pricing analysis and reporting tools.
- Proactively foster a price conscious mindset in all stakeholder engagements.
- Transfer knowledge, insights and equip the Sales Development and Buying teams with the skills required to leverage pricing tools and reports developed.
Documentation of process
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation of current process & update as enhancements and improvements are made.
Training
- Where required, provide training to both new and existing users of the Trusted Price Dashboard & Competitor Dashboard to demonstrate the features and functionalities.
Integrate within the Sales Development team.
- Work closely Category Pricing Specialists, where applicable, to update and maintain Category pricing data in line with the Foods Pricing strategy and architecture.
- Work with internal teams to define and translate functional requirements to advance Price reporting and analytics capabilities to proactively support the changing needs of the business.
Minimum requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Economics, or Mathematics, or equivalent educational qualification
- Min of 5 years working experience, 3 years’ experience in analytics
- Min 2 years Retail experience
- Highly numerated and structured with a strong analytical mind.
- Able to work to demanding timelines whilst maintaining high standards and levels of accuracy.
- Able to work with large volumes of data.
- High degree of commercial awareness and can make the links between product quality, pricing, profit and customer value.
- Able to analyze complex data and make recommendations in support of the Foods Pricing strategy, minimize risk, and drive financial KPI’s.
- Advanced Excel skills with demonstrated experience in data analysis.
- Able to liaise at all levels to proactively resolve issues and contributes positively to working together to achieve desired outcomes.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and strategic thinking.
- Commercial Awareness – Creating value by making the link between product quality, pricing, profit and customer value.
- Analytical – Translate analytics into actionable and clear recommendations.
- Dashboard Management – Creation, maintenance, and management of accurate Dashboards to support business reporting and decisions.
- Advanced Excel – VLOOKUP, Index Match, Advanced conditional formatting, Pivot tables and reporting, Macros and VBA, Data Simulations.
- Stakeholder Engagement – Maintain and develop strong relationships with internal & external stakeholders.
- Team Player – Self-starter who is driven to deliver, can work independently and inter-dependently.
- MS suite proficiency – Excel (advanced), Powerpoint & Excel
- Qliksense development/design beneficial
- Strong understanding of business processes, IT systems, and data analytics methodologies.
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