This is a 12-month contract role, where you will be required to dedicate 3-4 days a week towards the internship.
Closing date: Ongoing
Location: Rivonia-Johannesburg
Job Description
What is your role as an IT intern?
- Lead and improve analytical programs and present the results of your business unit/category/region to leaders.
- Analyze the variable, granular data of your business and regularly use advanced models to deliver business insights across diverse business domains.
- Answer and anticipate critical business questions and opportunities and deliver insights to the business in ways that make significant impacts.
- Demonstrate use of data visualization (Tableau, Power BI, Excel), and analytic tools (Python, R, SQL, KNIME/Alteryx) to grasp the business insights from our mountains of data.
- Collaborate with multifunctional teams (Marketing, Finance, IT, Sales) to improve key business priorities based on your data-driven insights.
Job Qualifications
- Studying towards bachelor’s or master’s degree in quantitative field (Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Math, Statistics, Physics, Analytics, etc.) or equivalent work experience on a part time basis.
- Experience using analytics techniques (AI/Machine Learning, Econometrics, Operations Research, Statistics, Root Cause Diagnostics) to tackle defined business problems.
- Ability to demonstrate, translate, and communicate sophisticated data into simple conclusions and business actions.
- Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to deliver a clear story to influence agreement to your recommendations with data and insights.
- Data management and visualization skills/tools in one or more of the following: Databricks, SQL, KNIME, Tableau, Power BI, JMP/SPSS or similar).
- Proficient in Python/R or demonstrated technical aptitude and willingness to learn.
- Self-motivated to work with diverse business scenarios, prioritizing multiple priorities, and have a business and consultancy mind-set, while technically (data) savvy, and passionate about discovering new/innovative ways of doing things.