Business Intelligence, Data and Research Manager at University of the Witwatersrand

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Science, Statistics, Economics, Business Intelligence, Marketing Analytics, Research or equivalent. Honours or Master’s highly advantageous.
• A preference for 3 years’ experience in market intelligence, commercial analytics or learning and development analytics.
• Experience within higher education, EdTech or corporate training is an advantage.

Advanced skills in:

• SQL and either Python or R for analysis and automation
• Tableau or Power BI 
• Web scraping / social listening tools and job-market data platforms (Lightcast, LinkedIn Economic Graph data, Google Trends, Meltwater, Brandwatch, etc.) 
• Proven ability to translate complex data into board-level presentations and visual stories.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience in pricing analysis, forecasting and building business cases.
• Excellent command of English.

Personal Attributes

• Intellectually curious with a passion for lifelong learning and skills development in South Africa.
• Comfortable challenging assumptions with evidence.
• Able to move seamlessly between big-picture strategy and hands-on data cleaning.

This position is graded at a D1 level as per the Patterson Job Grading System.

Closing date: 27 February 2026