Business Intelligence Manager at MECS (Pty) Ltd

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or BSc. Agric in Agricultural Economy
• Minimum of five years working experience
• Minimum 3 years sales, marketing and/or agronomic experience.
• Sound background in Market Analysis
• Strategic Planning and basic financial know how
• Experience working with data warehouses using SQL with knowledge of Oracle or SAP HANA
• Technical Skills: HTML5, SQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, good Microsoft Office skills (Excel/Power Point/ Word)
• Experience working with big data technologies, relational databases and cloud environments like AWS, Azure.
• Good knowledge of agile software development practices
• Experienced in creating visualization with Spotfire, Power BI, Tableau, R or others.
• Experienced in profiling, cleaning and transformation of data.
• Hands-on experience managing data of various sizes and sources using database communication & networking
• Good project management skills
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams
• Flexible and reliable person, takes clear ownership of tasks

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Conduct regular market research/surveys, panels and other BI related activities
• Generate market analysis (trends, scenarios and risk assessments) and provide reports to cluster BI manager
• Leverage BI methodologies and tools for generating of market trends, forecasting and planning
• Ensure maintenance and regular updating of market database. This includes capturing field intelligence such as prices, staff etc.
• Develop and implement competitor monitoring/analysis within the country.
• Communicate and create visualization of results
• Transform market research into meaningful insights to support strategy 
• Management of the BI team