Supply Chain Analyst – Junior

Role Purpose

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.

Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.