Shoprite X is looking for suitably qualified applicants to apply for their various vacancies at their tech and innovation hub.
Shoprite X is the Group’s tech and innovation hub aimed at reimagining grocery retail for a customer-inspired future. Marrying the best of data science and technology in the Shoprite Group ecosystem, Shoprite X aims to save customers time and money through innovation and creating more personalized shopping experiences.
- SHOPRITE
APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED FROM SUITABLY QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED CANDIDATES TO APPLY THE FOLLOWING VACANT POSITIONS:
POST 1: ANALYTICS ENGINEER
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
LOCATION: BRACKENFELL, CAPE TOWN
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Degree or Diploma in a Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field – (essential)
- +2 years’ experience working as part of a data team, ideally as a Data Analyst or Data Engineer – (essential)
- Advanced knowledge of SQL with the ability to write SQL that is easy to understand, support and maintain – (essential)
- Proficiency working with large data sets and business models – (essential)
- Exposure to and comfortable with adopting software engineering best practices including version control – (preferred)
- Exposure to and at ease teaching others how to adopt best practices – (preferred)
- Experience building and maintaining multi-functional relationships with various teams across the business – (essential)
- Experience working in an Agile environment – (preferred)
- Retail or eCommerce industry experience – (preferred)
POST 2: COMMERCIAL LEAD – SIXTY60
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
LOCATION: BRACKENFELL, CAPE TOWN
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Degree or Diploma in Marketing, Media, or a related field – (essential).
- +4 years experience in a similar capacity or role, driving and delivering business offerings or partnerships that result in demonstrable and sustained business growth – (essential).
- Strong retail media knowledge and experience – (essential).
- Proven experience collaborating with, influencing, pitching concepts and ideas and presenting across multiple stakeholder levels and groups within a corporate business context – (essential).
- Proven background in generating leads via proactive prospecting and selling – (essential).
- Experience selling and managing online media campaigns – (beneficial).
- Project management experience overseeing the process, creation and implementation of strategic business initiatives – (beneficial).
- Experience in an eCommerce environment – (beneficial).
- Experience in retail or FMCG industry – (beneficial).
POST 3: CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
LOCATION: BRACKENFELL, CAPE TOWN
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Grade 12 / Matric Bachelor’s degree in Procurement, Business Management, Marketing or Supply Chain
- 5 – 8 years Digital Product Management experience in Retail
POST 4: DIGITAL MEDIA & ADVERTISING SOLUTION ARCHITECT
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
LOCATION: BRACKENFELL, CAPE TOWN
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Degree in Information Systems / B Sc Computer Science (or similar). (essential)
- TOGAF certified. (desirable)
POST 5: HEAD OF SUPPLIER INSIGHTS
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
LOCATION: BRACKENFELL, CAPE TOWN
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Degree or Diploma in Business, Marketing or a related field – (essential).
- +6 years experience in a similar capacity or role, with proven success championing the development and delivery of actionable retail insights that derives commercial value, grows income and shapes and informs strategic business decisions – (essential).
- Experience working with and selling research or insights solutions to external clients – (essential).
- Experience leading insights and research team in a progressive and high-growth data-driven environment – (essential).
- Proficient in delivering compelling recommendations and insights to stakeholders – (essential).
- Experience scoping, delivering and managing projects alongside suppliers/category teams – (essential).
- Experience in the use of qualitative and quantitative research, insights and data tools – (essential).
- Experience designing and delivering insights in a large retail or FMCG organisation – (essential).
- Experience with retailer-specific data (POS, Retailer Rewards Card data etc.) – (highly desired).
POST 6: MEDIA SALES COORDINATOR
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
LOCATION: BRACKENFELL, CAPE TOWN
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Grade 12 certificate – (essential).
- Degree or Diploma in Business Administration, Sales or related – (preferred).
- +2 years’ experience in a sales coordination or similar role with demonstrable understanding of sales performance metrics and related administrative functions and processes – (essential).
- Exposure to an eCommerce, media agency or campaign management environment – (beneficial).
- Strong knowledge and experience in generating purchase orders, invoices and reports and working with data from different systems – (essential).
- Knowledge of collaboration tools and process-based workflows – (essential).
- Knowledge and exposure to administrative recordkeeping – (essential).
- Exposure to an omnichannel media booking tool will be an advantage – (beneficial).
- Experience working with Keynote and PowerPoint – (desired).
POST 7: PRECISION RESEARCH AND INSIGHTS MANAGER
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
LOCATION: BRACKENFELL, CAPE TOWN
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Degree or Diploma in Business, Research Design, Market Research or a related field with a strong research focus – (essential).
- +3 years experience in a senior research capacity or role with extensive knowledge of marketing, advertising and media research analysis along with a proven track record of researching and providing customer insights – (essential).
- Strong quantitative and qualitative research analysis experience within a business environment – (essential).
- Deep knowledge of research methods, technologies and tools and end-to-end research design including questionnaire design, survey programming and data analysis – (essential).
- Experience working with large data sets, distilling it down and shaping it in a way that delivers actionable insights and derives value – (essential).
- Well-versed in communicating business recommendations and insights into well-packaged and visually appealing presentations – (essential).
- Experience designing and delivering insights in a large retail organisation – (highly desired).
- Experience with retailer-specific data (POS, Retailer Rewards Card data etc.) – (highly desired).
POST 8: PRODUCT OWNER
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
LOCATION: BRACKENFELL, CAPE TOWN
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Degree in Business, IT, Engineering, Marketing or a related field – (essential).
- Certified Product Owner / certified SAFe Product Owner – (desired).
- 1-5 years experience working in an agile team with exposure to launching new product features and translating business strategy and analysis into successful consumer products – (essential).
- Experience with analytics and big data – (desired).
- Commercial experience in digital-led business development environments – (desired).
- Knowledge of legal compliance (POPIA, Electronic Information Act, etc.) – (desired).
- Exposure to the African digital market and customers – (desired).
POST 9: SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
LOCATION: BRACKENFELL, CAPE TOWN
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- A degree in a numerate discipline, preferably Statistics / Mathematics / Operations Research / Industrial Engineering / Computer Science (honour’s / master’s degree preferable)
POST 10: SENIOR DIGITAL PRODUCT DESIGNER
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
LOCATION: BRACKENFELL, CAPE TOWN
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Degree or Diploma in Commerce, Marketing, Advertising, or a related field – (essential).
- +3 years experience in a similar capacity or role with demonstrable experience in the user-centred design along with proven success launching new digital product features (mobile and web) – (essential).
- Highly skilled in the visual design of digital products, including but not limited to mobile applications on Android and iOS and Responsive web; Adobe Creative Suite and Invision – (essential).
- Solid experience communicating interactions using motion design principles – (essential).
- Experience with digital customer design development (UX design, wireframing, AB Testing, customer research etc.) – (essential).
- An understanding of analytics and big data in digital product design – (desired).
- Knowledge of digital marketing and traditional media – (desired).
- Knowledge of legal compliance (POPIA, Electronic Information Act, etc.) – (desired).
POST 11: SENIOR USER INTERFACE DESIGNER
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
LOCATION: BRACKENFELL, CAPE TOWN
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Degree or Diploma in Commerce, Engineering, Marketing or Advertising – (essential).
- +4 years’ experience in a similar capacity or role with proven success in user centered design and UI design tools – (essential).
- Deep knowledge and experience are necessary to challenge and, where appropriate, to work beyond the brief to produce a design with greater functionality or improved user flow – (essential).
- Highly skilled in visual design of digital products, including but not limited to: Mobile applications on Android and iOS and Responsive web; Adobe Creative Suite and Invision – (essential).
- Solid experience communicating interactions using motion design principles as relates to user interface design – (essential).
- Experience successfully launching new mobile product features – (essential).
- Marketing/advertising experience – (essential).
- Digital agency experience – (essential).
- Experience with analytics and big data – (essential)
- Digital customer design development (UX design, wireframing, AB Testing, customer research etc.) – (desired).
- An understanding of analytics in digital product design – (desired).
- Information technology management – (desired).
- Understanding of African digital market and customers – (desired).
- Knowledge of legal compliance (POPIA, Electronic Information Act, etc.) – (desired).
- Knowledge of digital marketing and traditional media – (desired).
POST 12: SOLUTION ARCHITECT III – CUSTOMER MARKETING
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
LOCATION: BRACKENFELL, CAPE TOWN
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Degree in Information Systems / B Sc Computer Science (or similar) – essential.
- TOGAF certification (or similar) – desirable
POST 13: SUPPLIER INSIGHTS MANAGER
JOB TYPE: FULL TIME
LOCATION: BRACKENFELL, CAPE TOWN
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Degree or Diploma in Business, Marketing or a related field – (essential).
- +4 years experience in a similar capacity or role, with proven success working with FMCG brands, categories, shopper or retail insights to shape and inform business decision-making – (essential).
- Experience working with large data sets, distilling them down and shaping them in a way that delivers actionable insights and derives value – (essential).
- Well-versed in communicating business recommendations and insights into well-packaged and visually appealing presentations – (essential).
- Experience working with suppliers/category teams to scope and manage project work – (essential).
- Advanced skills in insights and data tools – (essential).
- Experience designing and delivering insights in a large retail organisation – (highly desired).
- Experience with retailer-specific data (POS, Retailer Rewards Card data etc.) – (highly desired).
