Data Specialist
Organisation: Beyond Logistics Limited (BLL)
Duty Station: Bweyogerere, Wakiso District, Uganda
Reports t o : Acting Head of Strategy
Supervises : None
About US:
Beyond Logistics Limited (BLL) is a health supply chain and logistics company offering comprehensive and efficient supply chain solutions, including logistics project management, procurement, warehousing, distribution, repackaging, and labelling. BLL is a private limited company established in April 2013, located at Plot 1661, Kakajjo zone, Bweyogerere Link Road, Wakiso.
Job Purpose: The Data Specialist will be responsible for the overall data quality assurance and optimizing the value and application of data for decision making in the organization.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Data analytics and performance reporting
Apply advanced data science, statistical and predictive modelling techniques to build, maintain, and improve on multiple real-time decision systems.
Conduct end-to-end data mining against specific processes and activities to identify and treat any identified gaps. Enhance data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems.
Facilitate desired productivity and quality performance from team and stakeholders, based on defined KPIs.
Report to management on the progress of data quality improvement and help resolve data quality problems through appropriate process design strategies, as well as error detection, correction tests and procedures.
Develop and maintain performance dashboards and scorecards for the organization.
Data and information management
Partner with process owners to develop and adhere to policy and procedure manuals, standard systems, and methods for managing business processes, enable sustainable improvements in business results.
Develop and continuously check the organization’s data privacy policy or monitor compliance of data process flows against data quality standards.
Store and retrieve data from a data base, organize it in a logical and functional manner.
Create flowcharts and diagrams to illustrate how data is stored and how tables relate to each other.
Link dashboards and scorecards to data base reports.
Strategic planning
Recommend actions for improving the organizations performance based on evidence-based analysis of the performance metrics and other business intelligence tools.
Conduct market analysis and maintain a database of industry statistics to provide up-to-date information for decision making.
Support the Strategy Development and Review process. This entails coordinating the information and stakeholder needs in a coherent manner to develop and/or review the organizations long-term strategic objectives.
Performance Management. Oversee reporting of the organization’s performance in relation to the long-term strategic objectives to enable corrective interventions to be put in place in a timely manner.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Data Science, Health Informatics, Software Engineering or Computer Science, or any other highly numerical degree attained from a recognized institution.
Formal Training or Certification from a recognized institution in one of the following: Data Science, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics and Big Data (completed or enrolled) is an added advantage.
At least two years of proven experience in developing and maintaining data management systems.
Proficiency in statistical analysis, quantitative analytics, forecasting/predictive analytics, multivariate testing, and optimization algorithms.
Algorithmic and structured thinking
Excellent programming skills, preferably; Java, Python, R-programming, SQL
Knowledge of machine learning and big data techniques
Excel power user
Results oriented.
Good interpersonal skills
Ability to work under minimal supervision.
Ability to work under tight deadlines.
Ability to manage dynamic team.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested individuals should submit their applications including a cover letter, updated Curriculum Vitae, photocopies of academic documents, photocopy of a national ID or passport and other relevant documents to hr@beyondlogisticsug.com in one PDF formatted document. Please write a job title in the email subject line.
Deadline: Friday, 29 th September 2023 at 5pm .
NB: Please note that only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted. For inquiries, please contact us on +256 393 228 896
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