LOCATION: Nairobi

REPORTING TO: General Manager Marketing and Sourcing

Our client, MAJID AL FUTTAIM CARREFOUR, is the largest franchisee of French giant retail group CARREFOUR, 2nd retailer across the world. The Middle-East based group is currently operating more than 140 Hypermarkets and Supermarkets in 15 countries, with more than 25,000 employees from 70 nationalities. Our client is looking to fill the position of Data Analytics Manager.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Bring analytics into BAU

• Thought partner of use case squads on the ground.
• Use case squad member supporting across the different stages of a use case (managing process of defining impact & process of setting up implementation plans, etc.).
• Be the communication link between tech and business roles (ensuring all communications flow seamlessly).
• Responsible for following best practices in product management: MRD, PRD, defining user stories, and epics.
• Leverage data to draw insights and enhance daily decision-making (e.g. utilize GCR, market benchmarks, and market trends).
• Help colleagues best use data in their day-to-day work by improving their awareness of the data available and generating insights from data.

Surface ideas

• Develop a clear understanding of the business’s strategic needs.
• Prioritize the highest impact initiatives in alignment with the MAF strategy.
• Articulate business needs to the technical colleagues in order to find the best analytical solutions to address the problem.

Generating insights within a squad

• Identify and gather data from the business to be used for the use case analysis/modelling.
• Collaborate with squad members (e.g. business partners, data engineers, and data scientists)
• to solve and deliver the use case.
• Communicate the insights generated with appropriate recommendations to business stakeholders.

Delivering insights

• Escalate issues that will hinder the delivery of the use case.
• Ensure last mile execution based on the use case insights, collaborating with key stakeholders across the business and driving tool adoption.

Behavioral Competencies

• Understands business context and needs and generates and crystallizes ideas.
• Structures complex problems, leveraging analytics and business context in problem-solving.
• Demonstrates analytical savviness, with a proven ability to make data-driven decisions.
• Drives stakeholder alignment on complex issues, removing bottlenecks throughout the use case life cycle.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, developing MVPs in a “test and learn” environment.
• Communicates in a structured and synthesized manner.

Functional/Technical Competencies

• R, SAS, Advanced Excel, PowerPoint
• Analytics

QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND TRAITS

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Marketing, or a quantitative subject-related field.
• A Master’s Degree in Business Administration is preferred.
• Demonstrated high-level skills in management (experienced communicator, proven ability to build capacity and develop stakeholder engagement) of a large and complex organization.
• Analytics (Should be able to bridge the business and tech).
• Ability to deal with people from diverse backgrounds.

Minimum experience

• Minimum 6 years in a related managerial function.
• Preferably 2+ years in the retail business or closely related industry.

All applicants are advised to adhere to application guidelines for consideration. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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