Merchandise Analyst needed at Engen
Job title : Merchandise Analyst
Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town
Deadline : April 22, 2024
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Purpose of the Job
Provide analytics that supports & informs decision making and is aligned with the achievement of the strategic goals through creating, managing, evaluating, investigating and analyzing data queries relating to category management, optimizing data & frameworks within which the category.
Management process can effectively operate and engaging with teams and data management, stakeholders to ensure such queries are resolved.
Who you are
- You are a dynamic thinker with a high aptitude for learning
- You have built credibility within your organization and amongst your peers
- You are an expert at interpretation and execution of strategic objectives
- You are passionate about retail and selling, especially the customer experience
- You have excellent communication and negotiation skills
- You have a detailed understanding of data and why its accuracy is key
- You have a reputation for being insightful and operating with integrity
- You are able to collaborate with people outside our team within your organisation.
What you’ve done before
Baseline:
- NQF Level 6 (Diploma in Analytics/Sciences/Technology)
- 5 years’ experience in Data Analytics (within the Retail environment)
- Knowledge of Regional Occupational Health & Safety Policy and Occupational Health
- & Safety Act.
Advantageous:
- BSc Mathematics/ Stats/ Data Science/ BI
- 3 years’ experience Advanced Analytics in a Specialist role within Food Retailing
- Experience on Qlikview/ SQL/ Programming
- Exciting Challenges you might face in the role
- Immerse yourself in various aspects of the organisation
- Influencing the strategic direction of Engen convenience business
- Learning from, and being able to influence some of the best and experienced people
- Operate effectively in an ever-changing, dynamic and agile business
What you’ll be doing
- Undertake multiple data sources that will deliver actionable insights and recommendations to the merchandising and category teams.
- Perform accurate data analysis in support of informed decision making within the categories and with a view to improve profits and customer satisfaction indicators across the NFR business.
- Service ad-hoc requests for information within the required timeframe and specification, with a focus on translating ad-hoc solutions into effective, sustainable solutions.
- Integrate customer insights data with assortment & space data to provide further.
- understanding on customer behaviours in order to assist & inform the category management decision making process.
- Ensure timeous and accurate production of reports through analysis of trends and interpretation, with special emphasis on customer behavior & insights and on space optimisation.
- Ensure understanding of defined data standards and clearly execute the range of acceptable values and attributes for data.
- Ensure that business requirements of the end user are properly aligned to agreed data.
- Governance standards, definitions & calculations, criteria and business processes & standards.
- Adhere to formal established processes and take responsibility for leading and supporting the greater business data standards and efforts.
- Collaborate with other data stewards to resolve issues related to standards and definitions for data elements that cross domains.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to assist with analytics within areas such as impact analysis (stock write-downs & reviews), capacity reports & post implementation.
- Reviews and macro analysis and returns/ performance to ensure effective decision making.
- Engage with business and IT stakeholders to focus on continuous improvement of information in terms of relevance, quality and speed of delivery.
- Ensure data accuracy through monitoring data completeness, integrity and quality to ensure availability of correct information at all times.
- Ensure compliance to data governance through data cleansing & provision of feedback and taking ownership of data management.
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