Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- The Principal Specialist - Advanced Analytics & Insights will lead a team of insights analysts to produce advanced analytics and actionable insights.
- This role is crucial in driving data-driven decision-making and fostering a culture of analytics excellence within the Vodacom group.
- The incumbent will also lead a Community of Practice (COP) for group finance, ensuring best practices and innovative solutions are shared and implemented across the organization
Your responsibilities will include:
Leadership & Team Management:
- Lead and mentor a team of data scientists and analysts to deliver high-quality analytics projects.
- Foster a collaborative and innovative team environment.
- Provide strategic direction and guidance to the team.
Advanced Analytics & Actionable Insights:
- Develop and implement advanced analytics models to solve complex business problems.
- Translate complex data analyses into actionable insights for business stakeholders.
- Present findings and recommendations to senior management and other key stakeholders.
Community of Practice (COP) Leadership:
- Lead the COP for group collections, promoting best practices and knowledge sharing.
- Organize and facilitate COP meetings, workshops, and training sessions.
- Collaborate with other departments to ensure alignment and integration of analytics initiatives.
Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with business stakeholders to understand their analytics needs.
- Collaborate with the Big Data team for personalized analytics and deep insights on customer trends.
- Provide advanced performance reporting and financial forecasting to drive business performance and inform the Monthly Performance Review (MPR).
Continuous Improvement & Simplicity:
- Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in analytics and data science.
- Implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the analytics function.
- Develop ready-to-go insights by creating a build-once culture, encouraging market-to-market reuse, and assisting in business adoption of analytics solutions.
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
Must have technical/professional qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in advanced analytics, data science, or a related field.
- Proven experience in leading and managing a team of data professionals.
- Strong expertise in machine learning, statistical analysis, and data mining techniques.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to translate complex data analyses into actionable business insights.
- Experience in leading a Community of Practice or similar initiatives is a plus.
Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
- Proven track record of building clear strategy and driving business transformation programmes
- Advanced knowledge of Business Intelligence infrastructure and tooling
- Proven people leadership and strong negotiation and influencing skill
- Ability to balance multiple concurrent projects across multiple geographies.
- A self-motivated analyst with experience in interpreting and analyzing complex & huge volume of data
- Detailed understanding of the telecommunications industry
- Outstanding analytical skills and problem-solving ability
- Experience of working on complex data modelling projects to support strategic, financial and/or regulatory mandates
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Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- The incumbent will report directly to the Chief HR Officer and should have a strong HR background and good project management knowledge as well as an in-depth knowledge of the business and industry.
Your responsibilities will include:
- To increase the available time and agility of the Chief in order to focus his time, effort and priorities on strategic initiatives
- Acts as the liaison between Group CHRO and executives, and stakeholders to ensure consistent communication and involvement or decision-making at the proper time
- Responsible for consolidation of information and data to produce Exco, Ops Review, and Board reports
- Formulates the Group HR strategy and ensures consistent communication across the markets
- To assist the Chief with various functions including business project management
- Determine key performance indicators and monitor Group HR performance
- Acts as a strategic advisor to the Group CHRO and senior management team
- Ad hoc requirements
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
Must have technical/professional qualifications:
- Matric / Grade 12
- Minimum of 3 year relevant National Diploma or Degree is essential
- Business related courses completed is essential
- A business-related MBA is strongly preferred
- Minimum of 2 years of Leadership/Management experience (essential)
- Minimum of 5 years relevant experience:
- Managing functional responsibilities at a senior manager level within a Corporate environment
- Telecommunications Project management
- Managing/building relationships at Executive level
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
- Organising and directing multiple teams and markets
- Experience in planning & leading strategic initiatives
- Concurrently deliver on portions of multiple strategy projects in a fast-paced & results orientated environment
- Excellent report writing skills
- Diplomacy
- Honesty and integrity
- Detailed understanding of governance and decision making across the business
- Working knowledge of project management methodologies and tool
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