Data Analyst - Sales
Professional Recruitment Partners
- Midrand, Johannesburg
- R22,000-30,000 per month
- Contract
- Full-time
- Grade 12
- Minimum 2 years experience working experience as a Data Analyst
- Strong Excel skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Knowledge of Syspro and ODBC Reporting is advantageous.
- Ability to approach problems logically and make informed decisions based on the data
- Ability to work well in a pressurised environment.
- Ability to compile concise results through analytical thinking and personal initiatives to achieve.
- Extracting, analysing, formatting and presenting data used for various KPI Reports which are sent to some of our biggest customers on a weekly and monthly basis.
- Liaising with various internal departments to gather relevant data from safety reports, investigations, financial reviews, etc, to add to KPI Reports and management reports;
- Using statistical tools to interpret data sets, paying particular attention to trends and patterns that could be valuable for diagnostic and predictive analytics efforts.
- Preparing reports for the team that effectively communicate trends, patterns, and predictions using relevant data.
- Communicating and liaising with various branches and respective Key Account Managers to ensure adequate data has been captured correctly and timeously.
- Acquiring data from primary or secondary data sources and maintaining databases.
- Price analysis and comparison with historical data on a monthly, as well as on an “as required basis”.
- Identify, analyse, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets
- Work with management to prioritize business and information needs
- Data Cleaning and Preparation, removing errors, identifying outliers, and transforming data into a format that can be analysed.
- Assisting the contracts and supply chain departments with a system clean-up to generate more clear reports;
- Working on automating existing reports for more efficient processing;
- Assisting contract department with contract work overflow including sourcing and costing of items for large RFQs and Tenders;
- Market research for new large-scale opportunities.