Takealot.com is looking for a highly motivated Analytics Engineer to join our Planning & Program Management team. This role is critical in enabling data-driven decision-making across the business by uncovering insights, building robust models and tools, and improving analytics capabilities that support strategic planning and operational execution.
The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, brings strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and can translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for cross-functional stakeholders. This individual will work closely with teams across Retail, Marketplace, Finance, and Supply Chain Operations to influence key commercial and operational outcomes.
This position reports to the Head Planning & Programme Management
Your responsibilities will include:.
- Tool & Model Development: Build, validate, and maintain analytical tools, dashboards, and models to support Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and business decision-making processes.
- Data-Driven Insights: Translate business challenges into structured analytical approaches, delivering insights clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Performance Monitoring: Continuously improve and automate workflows, reporting tools, and data pipelines to enable scalable analysis and proactive performance tracking.
- Opportunity Identification: Analyse large, complex datasets to identify opportunities for operational efficiency, strategic alignment, and continuous improvement.
- Initiative Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of projects – from problem definition to solution delivery – ensuring timely, high-quality outcomes in a dynamic business environment.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner cross-functionally with teams such as Retail, Marketplace, Finance, and Supply Chain Operations to align analytical outputs with business priorities.
- External Awareness: Maintain an external mindset by tracking consumer behaviour, competitive dynamics, and macroeconomic indicators to inform planning & operational recommendations.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Minimum: Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative discipline e.g. Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field).
- 3+ years of experience in analytics, data engineering, business intelligence, or a similar role in a fast-paced or e-commerce environment.
- Experience in the retail industry and/or Supply Chain & Logistics field is beneficial.
- Proven experience building dashboards, reports, and models using tools such as SQL, Python, MS Excel, and BI platforms (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, Looker).
- Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and analytics engineering best practices.
- Experience designing or maintaining automated workflows and pipelines for recurring reporting and analysis.
- Ability to work effectively with large datasets from multiple systems and cleanse insights into business-relevant narratives.
- Demonstrated experience influencing stakeholders and driving cross-functional alignment through data storytelling.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present findings clearly to stakeholders at all levels.
Required Attributes:
We’re on the lookout for an Extraordinary Mind – someone who thrives in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment and is passionate about shaping the future of e-commerce.
We want someone who:
- Speaks up with respect and values open, honest communication.
- Is an expert in execution – not just a planner, but a doer who delivers results.
- Makes data-driven decisions and uses analytics to drive impact.
- Is competitive, self-motivated, and relentlessly pursues excellence.
- Shares our passion for delivering a world-class customer experience.
- Is entrepreneurial, thrives in change, and is solution oriented.
- Combines technical depth with business insight, approaching problems holistically.
- Is curious, challenges the status quo, and embraces continuous improvement.
- Is innovative, agile, and sees iteration as part of the journey.
- Believes in the power of collaboration and shared success.
- Wants to work on the cutting edge of e-commerce innovation at takealot.com.
- Thinks like an owner, taking initiative and accountability.
- Embodies smarts, integrity, and an exceptional work ethic.
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, it's 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 respectful but forthright
- 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 business SMART. 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 HARD WORKING
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.
