A leading South African retail bank, renowned for its simple, affordable, and accessible banking solutions, is seeking a Data Analytics Manager to drive the transformation of data into actionable business value. In this role, you’ll turn strategy into action by delivering data-driven solutions, predictive models, and actionable insights that enable smarter, faster decision-making across the business. You’ll play a key role in embedding best practices, uncovering opportunities, and ensuring data and analytics are at the heart of our strategy and operations.

Responsibilities:

• Transform strategic objectives into data insights and solutions that drive business growth and operational efficiency.
• Build and nurture strong stakeholder relationships, influencing key decisions through data and clear communication.
• Establish and enhance analytics standards, processes, and life cycle practices in alignment with enterprise data platforms.
• Lead, coach, and empower cross-functional analytics teams with the skills, tools, and frameworks needed to deliver measurable impact.
• Foster a culture of data storytelling and visualisation to ensure insights are accessible, actionable, and drive meaningful business outcomes.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s Degree in Commerce, Engineering, Mathematics, or Statistics.
• 10+ years of experience in a commercial environment, preferably within the telecommunications sector, demonstrating value through data driven decision making
• Proven track record in data analytics, report writing, model development and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong SQL coding skills and experience with relational databases.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce Data Cloud).
• Experience in managing teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of change management principles and practices.
• Experience with low/no code AutoML tools like Power BI or AWS Sagemaker.
• Experience in user experience (UX) reviews and customer interaction analysis.

The Reference Number for this position is NG60785 which is a Permanent Hybrid position based in Cape Town offering a cost to company of up to R1.4mil per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Nokuthula at nokuthulag@e-merge.co.za or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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