OnePort 365 provides optimal freight solutions to Africa's traders including trucking, shipping, warehousing, customs brokerage & marine insurance; at competitive rates & powered by technology.
Job Summary:
- The Business Intelligence (BI) Manager will lead the development and execution of data strategies that power smarter decisions in our digital freight operations. This role will manage the BI team in designing and maintaining scalable data models, dashboards, and reporting systems that provide real-time visibility into key business metrics. The BI Manager will partner closely with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into analytical solutions, create dashboards and reports, and drive a data-driven culture within the organization.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Plan and coordinate the development of primary and secondary market research studies and present findings to line manager.
- Create informative, actionable, and repeatable reporting that highlights relevant business trends and opportunities for improvement.
- Perform daily, weekly and monthly reviews and analyses of current processes using operational metrics and reports.
- Monthly and Quarterly updates to existing and prospective investors.
- Identify solutions for continuous improvement and leading on implementation.
- Implement analytics reporting and Business Intelligence dashboards as required by various functions of the business.
- Interpret data and analyze it into action-orientated reports for stakeholders' understanding and use.
- Promote a data-driven culture and decision-making process within the organization and equip various teams with actionable data oriented Key Performance Indicators.
- Initiate strong cross-functional partnerships across all the teams within the organization.
- Facilitate team and other analysts in the design and implementation of appropriate analytical processes which support business objectives.
- Interface across all teams to understand their data requirements and provide them with realistic insights and reports.
- Perform data analysis to generate periodic and ad hoc reports as required for business purposes and decision making. This includes sourcing and mining data across the business to feed the business reports.
- Recommend process improvement initiatives to increase business efficiency and effectiveness; including participating in cross-functional meetings to resolve recurring customer issues for data input and processing.
- Work across teams and functions with a wide range of projects related to data analysis including, revenue analysis, changes in trends, cost analysis, performance monitoring, KPI management and reporting.
- Implement forecast and trend analysis using enterprise databases, software systems, and other data sources.
Competency and Skill Requirements
Job-Related Skills
- Excellent research and analytic skills.
- Analytical approach, challenging and questioning data and information presented.
- In-depth knowledge of data modelling techniques.
- Comfortable in presenting information and ideas to senior stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of relevant business management principles.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to turn complex concepts into simple language.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Working knowledge of word processing tools and other relevant software packages.
- Positive, can-do attitude.
- Ability to work at pace, operating within tight deadlines and managing several conflicting priorities activities at one time.
- Pragmatic and proactive approach to problem solving.
Digital Skills
- Digital literacy is essential for success on this role.
- Strong knowledge of data analysis and forecasting models
Personal Qualities
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills.
- Leadership abilities.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to manage and communicate to staff at all levels and across different functions.
- Strong sense of integrity and dependability.
- Ability to collaborate with senior management to organize, plan and achieve financial goals.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to lead self.
- Accountability and Ownership.
Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelors' degree in either Economics, Mathematics, Statistics OR Engineering.
- Certifications in data analytic tools compulsory power bi, skilled in Canva, google studio.
- Minimum of 7 years in in business/financial/logistics/ trade management or forecasting including at least 2 years in a team lead role.
- Experience using Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools for data visualization.
- Working knowledge of SQL and working with relational databases.
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