Description:
Our client, a wholesale floor cleaning products supplier based throughout South Africa, is looking to employ a highly-skilled Sales Strategist for their Cape Town branch.
Job Purpose
The Sales Strategist will be responsible to analyze data, provide data driven insights to the business, demand forecasting for procurement and sales as well as financial forecasting for the sales team. The Sales Strategist will develop analysis and reporting capabilities for sales and finance. They will also monitor performance and quality control plans to identify improvements. Investigate data quality, clean data, transform data, summarize data, and perform basic queries to support project related activities.
Essential Duties, Responsibilities and Skills
Ability to work with large datasets Excellent Microsoft Excel skills Strong report writing skills Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy The ability to investigate data quality, clean data, transform data, model, and summarize data Accuracy and attention to detail Excellent written and spoken English Strong communication skills are essential Demand and Sales Forecasting People management Be able to work with data visualization tools like Power BI Needs to be self-driven, ability to work under pressure, by meeting deadlines effectively and efficiently Interpret data, analyse results using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports Work with project team to prioritize business and information needs Define new data collection and analysis process improvement opportunities Oversee integrity of reports, both when developing new reports as well as when updating existing reports to ensure data is accurately presented
Education & Experience Requirements
Minimum Grade 12 Relevant tertiary degree 5-year minimum Data Analytics experience Must have a valid South African driver’s license and passport Must have your own reliable vehicle
Skills and Abilities
MS Office proficient (Basic Computer Skills) Professional personal presentation Administrative experience Attention to detail Ability to problem solve and use initiative Excellent verbal and written communication Bilingual: English and Afrikaans Detail oriented and deadline driven Ability to work in a pressurized environment Accountable, responsible, reliable Team player Customer focused Integrity, credibility, trustworthiness, and a professional appeara...