Key responsibilities will include:
- Perform data analysis to support root cause analysis and decision making in Retail. This will include descriptive, diagnostic, and prescriptive analytics.
- Conducts research and performs competitive pricing analysis. Monitors ongoing competitive environment to ensure practices do not adversely impact company reputation or customer satisfaction.
- To work closely with the Commercial Department and other business units to develop a clear understanding of their plans and activities around pricing of products.
- Identify appropriate sales and clearance prices to increase customer traffic.
- Use sales trends to recommend pricing policy adjustments to management
- Perform process analysis and design changes to improve the effectiveness and efficiency across all areas of Retail.
Qualifications:
- A bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, finance, economics, or in a related field.
- A minimum of three years' experience as a pricing analyst
- Extensive experience in analysing pricing strategies and forecasting revenue.
- Applying statistical modelling methods to determine the potential impact of pricing strategies on profitability.
- Systems thinker with the ability to understand and break down complex problems and relationships
- Highly capable in working with large and complex data sets using appropriate tools. MySQL, Bigquery, Knime, Excel, Google Sheets and Qlikview are examples of the tools we use regularly
- Experience in the retail industry is required.
- Excellent analytical and communication skills
Should you meet the requirements for this position,
please REPLY with your DETAILED CV (pref. in MS Word format) AND YOUR CURRENT CTC SALARY PER MONTH to wilene@mhgroup.co.za Please note that we experience high volumes of candidates responding to our advertised vacancies. This makes it impossible for us to reply to each applicant individually. Should you not hear from us within two weeks upon applying, please consider your application unsuccessful