Specialist: Data & Analytics at Vodacom

Role Purpose

• This role is responsible for advanced and exploratory data analytics, modelling and insights to:
• enhance marketing efforts, campaign efficacy and portfolio performance
• To drive business growth and profitability
• To monitor product performance, and drive product development and product enhancements
• To highlight process inefficiencies
• To make data driven adjustments through monitoring and driving insight that enable models that improve risk and create efficiencies
• To ensure reporting processes are optimised, through scripting and automation 
• To act as Data Steward, ensuring all data governance and controls are in place
• To partner with Big Data and IT in the customer 360 data models and analytic tools

Your responsibilities will include

• Reporting & analytics: Ensure that performance monitoring is in place for all products; with desired cadence and frequency
• Data modelling: Build complex data models, while optimising the efficiency and quality of data collection.
• BI Solutions: Partner with Qlik developers and solution architects to design transformational analytical solutions 
• Predictive forecasting: Incorporate predictive forecasting to enhance performance management and maintain models to improve forecast accuracy
• Actionable Insights: Deliver daily and monthly insights from data models to support commercial action and financial steering
• AI into BI: Incorporate new technologies such as machine learning and robotics to increase process efficiencies, enhance predictive forecasting and improve quality of insights

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Degree/ Honours/in quantitative fields like Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, or related disciplines.
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in delivering solid commercial impact advanced analytics projects.
• Expertise in data manipulation: use of structured data tools (e.g. SQL), & unstructured data tools and platforms (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL)
• Expertise in major statistical modelling software packages (e.g., R, SAS) and multivariate techniques (e.g. k-means segmentation, multiple regression, factor analysis, time-series forecasting) - preferred
• Experience in digital analytics and its applications, e.g., google analytics, adobe analytics, social listening, social network analysis)

Closing date for applications: 31 January 2022

The base location for this role is Midrand, Vodacom Campus
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organizational culture that recognizes, appreciates and values diversity & inclusion.