Junior Research Analyst at Salt South Africa

About the job

We're looking for 5-10 Quantitative Research Analysts for a 3 month assignment in the Consumer Insights sector with a focus on the FMCG sector. This will include the analysis of large data sets. Must be able to start immediately / 8 November 2021

Full job spec below - Rates on offer are negotiable and as an independent contractor it's on a no work / no pay basis

Candidates must be able to start immediately/with a weeks' notice from anywhere in South Africa.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assists with researching and creating robust category datasets that underpin our trend prediction product, working to develop domain knowledge within the team.

• Assists with taxonomy curation.

• Utilises our proprietary tools to support team leads with cleaning and validating datasets for analysis.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• 1 years working experience in a quantitative research / analytics role

• Strong teamworking and interpersonal skills, including ability to respond to requests in a timely, professional and considerate manner.

• Excellent listening and communication skills (written and verbal), including ability to express thinking coherently.

• Real-world experience gathering and analysing quantitative data and communicating results in a business or research setting.

Technical proficiencies needed are:

• Strong proficiency in English language.

• Experience using Excel or equivalent data manipulation tools.