Dubizzle Egypt is the leading marketplace for selling and buying online in the region. Our aim is to upgrade people’s lives by facilitating deals and identifying attractive opportunities for both individuals and businesses. Our goal is to strengthen local economies, empower small businesses, and help everyone in making smarter choices for themselves, the market, and the planet.
As part of Dubizzle Group, we are alongside some of the strongest classifieds brands in the market. With a collective strength of 8 brands, we have more than 160 million monthly users that trust in our dedication to providing them with the best platform for their needs.
As an Analytics Manager, you will be in a central position as you will be evangelizing data and our methodologies to other functional analysts and other stakeholders in the company. You will own the governance of our BI dashboards and reporting. You will have close interaction with teams in marketing, sales, finance, and product. You will work in a fast-paced environment that is professional, international and entrepreneurial.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of data and commercial analysts
• Develop the career of the team members, give feedback and manage performance
• Build the team's SMART objectives or OKR
• Project manage the medium-sized cross-functional project, set the right level of expectation with Stakeholders and deliver within the agreed timeline
• Organise team workload allocation including leave time to ensure business continuity

Analytics:

• Access, construct and manipulate large datasets to support planned analysis, using SQL, Python and similar tools
• Design and develop BI dashboards using Sisense or similar tools (Tableau, Power BI, Data Studio) for various organisational metrics and indicators using best practices and industry standards in finance, sales, inventory, and other areas
• Define KPIs metrics and drive the data governance through standardisation and communication
• Adept at queries, report writing and presenting findings
• Research and validation of entity data using appropriate internal and external data sources
• Liaise and analyse across projects within the Reference Data environment
• Analysis, specification, testing and implementation of interfaces, workflow solutions, and reference data solutions – An example would be regression testing systems ahead of upgrades.
• Develop new models to address business needs, as well as identify and implement improvements to existing solutions; projects are diverse and can take several forms (e.g. simulation, linear/non-linear optimisation, prediction, machine learning)
• Create and maintain documentation for analytics, tools, and processes to ensure an effective transition to the end user
• Responsible for the technical excellence of other team member's work
• Continually research current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed
• Proactively engaging various data teams about the progression of the current sprint and roadmap
• Responsible for data quality and timely delivery of reports that make common business sense
• Responsible for Data Privacy and Security
• Maintain Data Analytics Roadmap
• Accountable for monitoring and optimising the cost and efficiency of the technical solution
• Merges requests into production after careful review
• Accountable for Data Privacy and Security (including organising credentials in Lastpass)

Growth:

• Identify growth opportunities by analysing user data, behaviour, and trends;
• Drive the design, implementation and interpretation of experiments/trials for continuous refinement of ongoing strategies
• Conduct full lifecycle analysis to include requirements, activities and design.
• Run sprint planning;
• Ensure comprehensive tracking of user activities, journeys, and funnels;
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners in product, engineering, operations, finance, and marketing to help develop data-informed business strategies and roadmaps;
• Continuously analyze the platform’s traffic highlighting the gaps and working on solutions;
• Manage and own the P&L of the online self serve channel;
• Partner with finance team in developing budgets, forecasts, and ad hoc analyses that are informed by data-driven insights and operating metrics;
• Continuous management for all launched propositions and products handling the pre-analysis and post assessments;
• Responsible for the online products and package pricing model;

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or related field;
• Master’s degree is a plus;
• 3+ years of experience as a people manager;
• 8+ years of work experience in analytics, having closely worked with product and commercial in an internet/e-commerce company;
• Experience in e-commerce, internet and/or digital media;
• Experience building, implementing and/or maintaining predictive models on very large datasets;
• Experience in enabling stakeholders to become data driven;
• Proficient in SQL;
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel;
• Skills in Python, R or similar tools are a big plus;
• Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (Excel, SPSS, SAS etc);
• Excellent analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to translate data and information into actionable insights and business recommendations;
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy;
• Exceptional Storytelling;
• Exceptional project management skills and attention to detail;
• Written and verbal proficiency in English;
• A role model: as a leader, you set an example and express the diligence, enthusiasm and other skills that you expect from the people whom you manage;
• Leads from the front;
• Proactive and passionate: You are independently capable of seeking information, solving conceptual problems and delivering high-quality results in challenging situations;
• Passion for data and metrics;
• Hands-on attitude and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment;
• Highly motivated, professional, creative, proactive and able to work independently and cooperatively in a diverse group;
• Analytical thinking; Conceptual thinking; Detail-oriented; Business Acumen;

Benefits

• A fast paced, high performing team.
• Comprehensive Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Rewards & Recognitions
• Learning & Development opportunities