Supply Chain Analyst – Junior at Salt South Africa

Role Purpose

• The supply chain analytics team fits into the bigger retail Supply Chain function. They use data-driven insights to support strategic and operational decision-making across projects and initiatives. The team’s purpose is to analyse end-to-end supply chain data to identify inefficiencies in current processes, highlight opportunities for continuous and future improvement, and to enable smarter, faster decision-making through clear communication of trends and patterns.

Role Description

• Provide data analytics support to the Supply Chain, Logistics, and Omnichannel teams to enable informed, data-led decisions.
• Build and maintain data models to simulate scenarios or improvement opportunities.
• Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights through impactful visualisation using descriptive analytics to communicate to stakeholders across various levels of the organisation.
• Structuring and driving the implementation of improvement initiatives alongside the Supply Chain management team.

Desired Attributes:

• Proficient with data analytics methodologies such as regression, optimisation, classification, forecasting and clustering.
• Comfortable developing and maintaining modelling tools and algorithms in Excel / Python / Qliksense / SQL.
• Business acumen.
• An understanding of supply chain, warehousing, logistics and retail principles.
• Eager learner and creative problem solver.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Driven, disciplined and hard-working.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Data Engineering, Mathematics, or Statistics.
• Master’s degree (advantageous but not required).
• 1 – 5 years’ experience in data analytics or data science.

The Environment:

• The Supply Chain Analytics team follows a hybrid work environment – part remote, part in-person at tbe Head Office in Cape Town CBD. Occasional travelling to the distribution center in Montague Gardens may also be required depending on projects and tasks.
• You will join a young and dynamic team of other analysts.
• We pride ourselves in high quality work and in bringing a creative edge to our analytics and problem solving.
• Our environment in fun but focused – we don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we work hard to deliver high quality outcomes.
• We are always willing to help and support each other and we value teamwork.