Senior Commercial Analytics Manager

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for an Senior Commercial Analytics Manager  to join our Takealot Group Advertising team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard working people to join us.  We offer market related benefits, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

This position reports to the Group Head of Advertising 

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Analyze advertising performance data to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement.
• Develop and maintain financial models to forecast advertising revenue.
• Prepare and present regular reports on advertising performance, revenue, and other key metrics to stakeholders.
• Work closely with the sales manager and sales team leaders in providing data-backed recommendations to improve sales performance.
• Work closely with the sales and campaign execution teams to develop pricing/incentive strategies, advertising packages and optimize ad inventory.
• Support the sales team with data-driven insights for strategic client pitches and proposals.
• Manage a team of commercial analysts
• Collaborate with the product team to recommend improvements to increase the efficiency of developing and maintaining the regular financial forecast models and reports.
• Collaborate with the product team to recommend enhancements to improve the digital advertising platform based on data insights.
• Work closely with finance to streamline and focus efforts to improve financial performance of the advertising division.
• Implement best practices to drive process standardization in maintaining commercial systems; develop risk plans.
• Conduct market research to understand industry trends and competitor strategies.
• Assess the viability of new opportunities and assist the management in advertising investment decisions.

Attributes Required:

• Data Analysis and Insights
• SQL and data visualization
• Advanced Excel
• Report writing
• Financial model building

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Statistics, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in a commercial analytics role, preferably within the digital advertising or e-commerce industry.
• Proven track record of compiling and analyzing large disparate datasets to deliver actionable insights.
• Experience working with senior management to deliver on business objectives.
• Experience with SQL and data visualization tools (e.g Looker, Power BI)
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and other analytical tools.
• Experience with digital advertising platforms and programmatic advertising is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with online retail or e-commerce business models is a plus

The Environment: 

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer- centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e- commerce company in Africa. 
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve. 
• We are short on ego and high on output. 
• We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all. 
• We love what we do and what we are creating. 

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who: 

• is forthright but respectful 
• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute 
• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions 
• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours 
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience 
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster 
• is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input 
• is curious and challenge the status quo 
• is innovative and enjoys iteration 
• is collaborative 
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com. 
• thinks like an owner of the business. 
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING 

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

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