Supply Chain Analyst – Junior
Salt South Africa · Cape Town, Western Cape
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- 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.