Description:
This is an amazing opportunity to join a passionate team using cutting edge technology and the newest trends in analytics to drive business insights that will allow you to make your mark.
We're looking for a highly experienced data specialist with strong ability to glean insights and use their strong commercial acumen to inform strategic business decisions for the sales team.
Responsibilities:
- Analyse business needs and field requests from team members to provide data, analytics, insights, reporting & dashboards with high data quality to drive sales/business growth
- Extract data using SQL from relational data-warehouses
- Build jobs to extract, store and analyse data using Python, PySpark and/or Pandas
- Create dashboards and reports using visualisation tools (e.g.Qlik Sense, Tableau) and Google sheets
- Derive data-driven insights and customer behaviour analysis
- Explain and comment on performance variances using data
- Assist in the maintenance of customer and master data
Skills and experience required:
- 6+ years experience in analytics, preferably with 1-2 years as a lead analyst
- Strategic thinking - uncovering new opportunities for innovation and optimisation across the team with ownership of strategic initiatives from ideation to execution.
- Strong business and commercial acumen - Excellent understanding of sales cycles and the sales funnel from acquisition to nurturing and conversion as well as reselling
- Advanced SQL (comfortable writing complex queries that combine data from various tables, e.g. CTEs, temporary tables).
- Strong ability analysing and combining large complex datasets
- Data viz wiz - strong Qlik Sense or Tableau skills
- Data storyteller - strong ability to present complex data and insights concisely to various stakeholders.
- Experience of working in a fast paced environment focused on growth and the ability to balance multiple tasks at once..
- Excellent written, verbal communication & presentation skills (at all levels in the organisation, including executives)
- Experience with using Apache Hadoop / Delta Lake clusters with Hive, Spark and/or Databricks would be a bonus.