Data Analyst (Portfolio)

South Africas leading online retailer is looking for a highly talented Trade Strategist (Portfolio) to join our team in Cape Town.

The role is to support the Trade Optimisation team by delivering data-driven insights analytical models and strategic recommendations that improve business performance across key commercial levers such as pricing promotions forecasting and portfolio / channel optimization.

We are a young dynamic hyper growth company looking for smart creative hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs a great work environment and a promise that you wont be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

This position reports to the Head of Trade Optimization

Your responsibilities will include :

• Analyze complex datasets to identify opportunities for improvement in your functional area.
• Build validate and maintain models to guide commercial decisions.
• Partner cross-functionally with Retail Marketplace Supply Chain Promotions Product and other stakeholders to influence outcomes.
• Continuously improve tools dashboards and workflows that enable scalable analysis and performance monitoring.
• Translate business problems into structured analytical approaches and clearly communicate insights to non-technical audiences.
• Take ownership of initiatives follow through on delivery and adapt quickly to changing business priorities.
• Ability to deliver under deadlines and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong leadership potential capable of influencing and mentoring others.
• Committed to excellence and continuous improvement.
• Adopts and leverages AI in their daily tasks to improve their efficiency.
• Analyze list price structures to optimize margins while remaining competitive.
• Develop models that guide base pricing decisions across products and categories.
• Identify patterns in pricing elasticity and suggest price repositioning.

Qualification & Experience :

Attributes Required :

The Environment :

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!

Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities to apply .

Required Experience :

IC

Key Skills

Data Analytics,Microsoft Access,SQL,Power BI,R,Data Visualization,Tableau,Data Management,Data Mining,SAS,Data Analysis Skills,Analytics

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1