Marketing Analytics Specialist

Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (SA) Ltd; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (SA) Ltd in Cape Town seeks a senior analytics specialist to lead analytics projects from design to value realization. This role partners with Group Marketing to translate data into actionable insights, build dashboards, and drive predictive decision-making.

Required: 8+ years in analytics, honours or masters in statistics/commerce/maths; proficiency in SQL, Python, Alteryx; Tableau/Power BI and strong communication. Closing by 10 September 2026.

Qualifications

• Honours or master’s degree in statistics, commerce or mathematics.
• 8+ years of technical or data analysis experience.
• Analytics business partnering or account management experience.
• Coding experience (SQL, Alteryx, Python).
• Dashboarding and visualization experience (Tableau, Power BI).
• Confident communication of complex ideas simply.

Responsibilities

• Deliver analytics projects from design to value realization with stakeholders.
• Manage analytics project design, scoping, data sourcing and wrangling.
• Create dashboards and visualizations; translate insights into actions.
• Partner with marketing teams to measure impact and drive business outcomes.

Skills

SQL

Alteryx

Python

Tableau

Power BI

Communication

Data wrangling

Data validation

Education

Masters (NQF Level 9)

Tools

SQL

Alteryx

Python

Job description

Job Description Key Result Areas:

Analytics Strategy and Execution Manages and executes on entire analytics projects delivery to production by translating business needs into analytics deliveries and value creation through insights generation. The incumbent is comfortable in data wrangling, visualization, insight generation and the impact measurement of the analytics delivery. Supports and maintains dashboards and other analytics solutions that support the relevant business processes. The Specialist Data Analyst serves as a strategic analytics partner to Group Marketing, transforming customer, campaign, brand and digital data into actionable insights that influence business decisions, improve marketing effectiveness and support the achievement of strategic objectives. The role combines analytical expertise, business acumen and stakeholder engagement to ensure that data is translated into measurable business outcomes. The incumbent will identify, quantify and communicate opportunities, risks and trends that influence marketing and customer strategy. Translates complex data into clear business recommendations for senior stakeholders. Assists the moving of the organisation from descriptive reporting towards proactive and predictive decision‑making Develops measurement frameworks that quantify marketing performance and business impact.

Technical Leadership

Makes increased contributions by broadening individual skills Provides technical thought leadership and introduces new tools or ways of working to improve insight generation or analytics efficiency Drive adoption of advanced analytics, AI and automation to improve business outcomes.

Business Partnering

Act as a trusted analytics advisor to marketing leaders and business stakeholders. Influence decision‑making through compelling storytelling, visualisation and communication of insights. Responsible for building strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders Responsible for collaborating with stakeholders to create and maintain an analytics road map for periods up to a year. Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality against agreed road map. Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results. Collaborates on Pilots, post implementation reviews and adjusts solutions accordingly to measure and maximise value from analytics deliveries

Communicating and presenting analysis results to key stakeholders across organisational levels

Translating data into actionable insights for senior stakeholders.

Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required

• Statistical/ Commerce/ Maths related honours or master’s degree 8+ years technical or data analysis related experience.
• Commercially minded analytics professional with the ability to measure impact of analytics delivery implementation.
• Analytics business partnering or account management experience with the ability to build strong relationships across teams.
• Coding experience (SQL, Alteryx, Python etc.)
• Dashboarding and visualization experience (Tableau, Power BI etc)
• Confident communication of complex ideas simply
• Detailed oriented with high-quality standards and rigour in validation of analytics outputs

Preferred Requirements

• Data engineering or sourcing experience
• Digital marketing experience (Google Ads, GA4, Meta Ads etc)
• Marketing analytics experience including media measurement
• Experience with market research data (brand trackers, establishment surveys etc.)

Role Overview

As a senior analytics specialist, the incumbent to this role will partner with Group Marketing generally and the digital marketing team specifically to derive commercial value through the delivery of analytics projects. This delivery includes account/stakeholder management/ analytics project design and scoping, data sourcing, data wrangling, data visualization, insights generation, driving insights to action with business partners and finally value realization. The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results over periods of up to a year.

Skills

Adaptive Thinking, Business Intelligence (BI) Analysis, Business Requirements Analysis, Categorizing Data, Computer Literacy, Data Analysis, Database Reporting, Database User Interfaces and Queries, Data Classification, Data Compilation, Data Controls, Data Interpretations, Document and Model User Requirements, Policies & Procedures, Report Review Competencies

Education

NQF Level 9 – Masters (Required)

Closing Date 10 September 2026 , 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

The Old Mutual Story! Old Mutual is a premium African financial services organisation that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key market segments in 14 countries. The lines of business include Life and Savings, Property and Casualty, Asset Management and Banking and Lending. We are rooted in our purpose of Championing Mutually Positive Futures Every Day and believe that a great customer experience is anchored in a great employee experience.