Purpose of the Job

In this role, you should be highly analytical with a knack for analysis, math and statistics. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential for interpreting data. We also want to see a passion for machine-learning and research. Your goal will be to help our company analyse trends to make better decisions.

 

Responsibilities would include:

- Extract-, Transform-, Load data

- Undertaking data collection, data pre-processing, data engineering, feature selection and exploratory data analysis

- Interpreting data, analysing results using statistical techniques

-Building models to address business problems

- Presenting information using data visualization techniques

- Maintain and develop dashboards using business intelligence tools example Power Bi and Tableau.

- Maintain and develop datasets on our BI Microsoft SQL server.

- Manage a team of data analysts and monitoring performance.

- Team yearly and quarterly KPI reviews

- Lead successful team

Job Description

Key Duties:

• Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes

• Undertake pre-processing of structured and unstructured data

• Analyse large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns

• Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms

• Combine models through ensemble modelling • Evaluate model performance and use hyperparameter tuning or feature selection to improve models.

• Implement object serialization (Storing variables and their values)

• Ensure model reproduce ability (environment dependencies and versions)

• Present information using data visualization techniques • Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges

• Collaborate with engineering and product development teams • Implement and drive new projects/models within the business.

• Identify areas of improvement within the business and by involving the necessary personnel with the relevant skills, proposing the required solutions.

• To provide instruction and guidance to other personnel within the Solutions team and company, and ultimately facilitating the achievement of goals.

• Conduct and lead feasibility studies on various internal and external ventures.

• Presentation of key findings to clients and the business.

• Ensure the solutions team remains informed of the technologies and capabilities available in the market.

• Keep EXCO informed of trends within the industry and business

• Offer guidance and support to the Business Analysts

 

Minimum Requirements:

- Proven experience as a Manager/Leader in similar role.

- Understanding of the logistics industry.

- Proven experience as a Data Scientist or Data Analyst

- Experience in data mining

- Understanding of machine-learning and operations research

- Knowledge of SQL and Python

- Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau and Power Bi) - Analytical mind and business acumen

- Strong math skills (e.g. statistics, algebra)

- Problem-solving aptitude

- Excellent communication and presentation skills (Visual story telling)

- BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field; graduate degree in Data Science or another quantitative field is preferred

- Valid Code 08 driver’s license and own reliable transport

 

Technical Qualifications and Skills (Course/ Certificates and experience)

- Microsoft Excel

- Microsoft Power BI Desktop

- Power Bi online

- Tableau Desktop

- Tableau Server and Online

- Microsoft SQL Server

- Python (Programming language)

- Experience with Pandas’ library

- Python Data Analysis Library

- Data Analytics

- Data Science

- Experience with Machine Learning (Regression and classification)

- Project Management

- Information Technology: Systems development

- Lean Six Sigma

- Business Management

- Leadership

- Microsoft 365