BIE Leader at Aramex South Africa

Purpose of the Job
In this role, you should be highly analytical with a knack for analysis, math and statistics. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential for interpreting data. We also want to see a passion for machine-learning and research. Your goal will be to help our company analyse trends to make better decisions.

Responsibilities would include:

• Extract-, Transform-, Load data
• Undertaking data collection, data pre-processing, data engineering, feature selection and exploratory data analysis
• Interpreting data, analysing results using statistical techniques
• Building models to address business problems
• Presenting information using data visualization techniques
• Maintain and develop dashboards using business intelligence tools example Power Bi and Tableau.
• Maintain and develop datasets on our BI Microsoft SQL server.
• Manage a team of data analysts and monitoring performance.
• Team yearly and quarterly KPI reviews
• Lead successful team

Job Description
Key Duties:

• Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes
• Undertake pre-processing of structured and unstructured data
• Analyse large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns
• Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms
• Combine models through ensemble modelling
• Evaluate model performance and use hyperparameter tuning or feature selection to improve models.
• Implement object serialization (Storing variables and their values)
• Ensure model reproduce ability (environment dependencies and versions)
• Present information using data visualization techniques
• Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges
• Collaborate with engineering and product development teams
• Implement and drive new projects/models within the business.
• Identify areas of improvement within the business and by involving the necessary personnel with the relevant skills, proposing the required solutions.
• To provide instruction and guidance to other personnel within the Solutions team and company, and ultimately facilitating the achievement of goals.
• Conduct and lead feasibility studies on various internal and external ventures.
• Presentation of key findings to clients and the business.
• Ensure the solutions team remains informed of the technologies and capabilities available in the market.
• Keep EXCO informed of trends within the industry and business
• Offer guidance and support to the Business Analysts

Minimum Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Manager/Leader in similar role.
• Understanding of the logistics industry.
• Proven experience as a Data Scientist or Data Analyst
• Experience in data mining
• Understanding of machine-learning and operations research
• Knowledge of SQL and Python
• Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau and Power Bi)
• Analytical mind and business acumen
• Strong math skills (e.g. statistics, algebra)
• Problem-solving aptitude
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (Visual story telling)
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field; graduate degree in Data Science or another quantitative field is preferred
• Valid Code 08 driver’s license and own reliable transport

Technical Qualifications and Skills (Course/ Certificates and experience)

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Power BI Desktop
• Power Bi online
• Tableau Desktop
• Tableau Server and Online
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Python (Programming language)
• Experience with Pandas’ library
• Python Data Analysis Library
• Data Analytics
• Data Science
• Experience with Machine Learning (Regression and classification)
• Project Management
• Information Technology: Systems development
• Lean Six Sigma
• Business Management
• Leadership
• Microsoft 365