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Integrated Data SpecialistCoca Cola

LimpopoSouth Africa
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job description - Integrated Data Specialist

  • Lead the integration of various sources of business information to derive meaningful insights that enable robust decision-making in all CCBA markets.
  • Managing centrally the connection with KO and CCBA suppliers of data, research, and insights (e.g., BI, Nielsen, GFK, iRED, MacMobile, Frontline, and other relevant agencies) ensuring service levels agreements are met, auditing the integrity of information, problem-solving and translating business market requirements.
  • Understanding market context plans and trends to proactively identify new requirements of information or analysis for groups or countries.
  • Be the main point of contact for all suppliers ensuring compliance with the contract, service level agreements, and company policies.
  • Assessing and evaluating multiple sourcing of suppliers to determine if their services/deliverables meet CCBA needs and make a recommendation.
  • Negotiating contracts, and service level agreements, and conducting meetings to inform responsibilities, raise concerns, inquire about their services or negotiate prices.
  • Defining standards by which to assess the performance of approved suppliers and evaluate them to identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Managing a portfolio of data suppliers to ensure optimized value add services and mitigate duplication in the same data service offerings.
  • Scope with IT the data/modeling environment (business Information warehouse) ensuring it is effective for analysis and driving delivery into the business.
  • Interacting with Business users and understanding their requirements from a data analytics, reporting, and User Interface / Experience perspective.
  • Assist in developing reports using modern platforms and techniques to share information for decision-making promptly and user-friendly interface.
  • Correlating relevant and quality data sources required to fully answer questions, address problems and recommend strategy, deriving analytical insights from a variety of business contexts, and enabling the communication thereof through a range of creative and intuitive solutions.
  • Ensuring all business users can read and use the information provided.
  • Gathering feedback from users, identifying opportunities for improvement, and applying them.
  • Skillfully elicit ideas generation and creative solutions for creating informative BI solutions and mechanisms to communicate outcomes and results at all levels of the company.
  • Ensuring that data requirements are met and driving the continuous improvement and automation of reporting requirements around management routines.
  • Develop and sustain a data-smart culture to drive insights-driven decision-making.

 

Skills, Experience & Education    

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree: Computer Science, Information Technology, Informatics, Mathematics, Engineering, or similar.
  • Post Graduate / Honours / Masters Qualification in Informatics, Data Science, or Management (added advantage).

Certifications:

  1. Data and analytics-related Certifications or Experience: e.g. SAS, SQL, SISS, Spark SQL, Power Bi, Azure, Microsoft D365, Tabular models (AAS), and Big Data certifications, SCRUM / Prince2, DAMA, TOGAF.

 

Experience:

  • 10 + years of professional experience in sales, data analysis, statistics, data science, or investigation teams. At least 5 years in data and analytical areas.
  • Proven experience in negotiation, sourcing, and performance processes.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to other functional areas.
  • Expertise working with several countries and cultures in the African Market.
  • Strategic thinker with the ability to analyze and solve problems quickly.
  • Strong understanding of surveying techniques and tools and progressive data accumulation practices in the FMCG industry.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and be creative/flexible in managing simultaneous projects, requirements, and reporting schedules.
  • Strong programming skills – Microsoft SQL, R, Python, DAX, etc. and experience in implementing end-to-end BI technologies.
  • Demonstrated track record of continued advancement of learning in new technologies and evolving skill sets.
  • Data modeling and strong data analysis and critical problem-solving skills.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to other functional areas in simple language with a customer-oriented approach to understanding.
  • Proven track record of simplifying large information inputs from multiple sources and consumable outputs that provide valuable insights.

General    

The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional or relevant information as criteria for short-listing.

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