he purpose of the Data Analyst role is to perform and build analysis of pricing developments and offerings and translate these into meaningful analytics and actionable insights to support the category management team meet its commercial and revenue goals and targets. The role gathers, consolidates and analyses relatively complex data, data sources and datasets to produce insights, predictions, recommendations and reports to optimise pricing strategies, whilst supporting the Category Insights team with ad hoc reporting and providing input to analytics tool development, monitoring, utilisation and training. The Shoprite Group is Africa’s largest fast-moving consumer goods retailer with over 24 million customers and 2800 outlets. Our customers are at the heart of what we do, and our sole purpose is to provide all communities with high quality products at the most affordable prices. Within such a dynamic environment, placing the customer at the centre of everything we do is essential to maintain a competitive position.
