Analytics Engineer at takealot.com

Your responsibilities will include:.

• Tool & Model Development: Build, validate, and maintain analytical tools, dashboards, and models to support Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and business decision-making processes.
• Data-Driven Insights: Translate business challenges into structured analytical approaches, delivering insights clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Performance Monitoring: Continuously improve and automate workflows, reporting tools, and data pipelines to enable scalable analysis and proactive performance tracking.
• Opportunity Identification: Analyse large, complex datasets to identify opportunities for operational efficiency, strategic alignment, and continuous improvement.
• Initiative Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of projects – from problem definition to solution delivery – ensuring timely, high-quality outcomes in a dynamic business environment.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner cross-functionally with teams such as Retail, Marketplace, Finance, and Supply Chain Operations to align analytical outputs with business priorities.
• External Awareness: Maintain an external mindset by tracking consumer behaviour, competitive dynamics, and macroeconomic indicators to inform planning & operational recommendations.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Minimum: Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative discipline e.g. Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field).
• 3+ years of experience in analytics, data engineering, business intelligence, or a similar role in a fast-paced or e-commerce environment.
• Experience in the retail industry and/or Supply Chain & Logistics field is beneficial.
• Proven experience building dashboards, reports, and models using tools such as SQL, Python, MS Excel, and BI platforms (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, Looker).
• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and analytics engineering best practices.
• Experience designing or maintaining automated workflows and pipelines for recurring reporting and analysis.
• Ability to work effectively with large datasets from multiple systems and cleanse insights into business-relevant narratives.
• Demonstrated experience influencing stakeholders and driving cross-functional alignment through data storytelling.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present findings clearly to stakeholders at all levels.

Required Attributes:

• We’re on the lookout for an Extraordinary Mind – someone who thrives in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment and is passionate about shaping the future of e-commerce.

We want someone who:

• Speaks up with respect and values open, honest communication.
• Is an expert in execution – not just a planner, but a doer who delivers results.
• Makes data-driven decisions and uses analytics to drive impact.
• Is competitive, self-motivated, and relentlessly pursues excellence.
• Shares our passion for delivering a world-class customer experience.
• Is entrepreneurial, thrives in change, and is solution oriented.
• Combines technical depth with business insight, approaching problems holistically.
• Is curious, challenges the status quo, and embraces continuous improvement.
• Is innovative, agile, and sees iteration as part of the journey.
• Believes in the power of collaboration and shared success.
• Wants to work on the cutting edge of e-commerce innovation at takealot.com.
• Thinks like an owner, taking initiative and accountability.
• Embodies smarts, integrity, and an exceptional work ethic.

The Environment:

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, it's all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:

• is respectful but forthright
• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours)
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com
• thinks like an owner of the business
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING