Senior Insights Analyst

Chep; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

A global logistics company in South Africa is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to lead the design and development of data visualization solutions. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in analytics, proficiency in Power BI, SQL, and DAX, and the ability to translate data into actionable business insights. Join a diverse team dedicated to innovation and sustainability in supply chains, with flexible working options.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Paid volunteer leave

Employee discounts

Paid parental leave

Opportunities for career advancement

Share purchase options

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in programming, analytics, or business intelligence.
• Expertise in developing animated and interactive visualisations.
• Ability to solve business challenges through effective data modeling and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop interactive dashboards using Power BI.
• Translate data into business decisions by collaborating with stakeholders.
• Build and optimize data models for efficient reporting.

Skills

Power BI

SQL

DAX

Data visualization

Agile methodologies

UX/UI design experience

Education

Relevant tertiary qualifications in Commerce, Mathematics, Statistics, or Computer Science

Tools

Power Apps

Power Automate

Jira

Job description

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our million pallets, crates and containers.

We employ approximately 13, people and operate in 60 countries.

Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world's biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you?

You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner.

You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability.

You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals.

And you can maximize your work‑life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.

Job Details

This role demands a combination of technical depth and business‑facing storytelling, including :

• Power BI (custom visuals, animations, pixel‑perfect reporting)
• SQL, DAX and SSRS
• Ideally UX / UI design experience, Agile methodologies and familiarity with tools like Power Apps, Power Automate, and Jira. If you have the skills please do reach out.

We are Ok with Johannesburg / Durban or Cape Town as base location.

Global, ASX‑listed market leader in Logistics & Supply Chain | One of the World's most sustainable companies Dynamic, collaborative team that's shaping the future of digital supply chains

Help key business functions make smarter, data‑driven decisions.

Are you passionate about transforming complex data into impactful business solutions?

If you thrive on data storytelling, visualization, and analytics, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.

As part of the innovative Brambles' Data & Analytics team, reporting directly to the Team Lead: Data Analysis & Visualisation for AMETA (APAC + META), you will lead the design, development, and optimisation of dashboards, reports, and BI solutions, while driving best practices in analytics and data storytelling across the Region.

What You’ll Do

• Design & Develop Interactive Dashboards – Use Power BI, SQL, and data visualization tools to create insightful, action‑driven reports.
• Translate Data into Business Decisions – Partner with stakeholders across Finance, Sales, and Operations to deliver meaningful insights.
• Build & Optimize Data Models – Develop scalable Power BI environments to ensure efficient reporting and decision‑making.
• Automate & Improve Processes – Leverage Power Apps & Power Automate to streamline data solutions.
• Collaborate in an Agile Environment – Work with Data Engineers, Scientists, and Business Leaders to deliver high‑impact projects.

Success Factors

• Educational Background: Relevant tertiary qualifications in Commerce, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or related technical fields.
• Extensive Experience: Proven track record in Analytics & Business Intelligence, developing animated / interactive visualisations and designing User Interfaces that provide a data storytelling visualisation of key insights and prescriptive actions.
• Solve business challenges by designing effective data models and reports.
• Technical Proficiency: Expertise in Power BI & SQL (data modelling, SSRS, DAX) and preferably Power Apps & Power Automate.
• Analytical & Problem‑Solving Skills: Ability to analyse, interpret and translate complex data and uncover actionable business insights & solutions.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal skills to translate technical data insights into clear, business‑friendly recommendations across varying audience levels.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Ability to work cohesively with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Proactive & Agile Mindset: Comfortable working in an agile, fast‑paced environment, takes initiative, and is open to learning & adopting new technologies and practices.
• Leadership and Mentorship: Share knowledge and mentor others in Analytics best practices to support a data‑driven culture.

About Brambles

Brambles Limited (ASX : BXB) Brambles is a global provider of logistics solutions, connecting the world's supply network through its operations, people and technology.

Brambles operates across 60 countries primarily through its CHEP brand, harnessing its industry‑leading expertise and the unmatched scale of its asset pool of million pallets, crates and containers through a network of + service centres.

Through its regenerative ambition, built on decades of leadership in the circular economy, Brambles has become one of the world's most sustainable companies.

Since its origin in

Brambles has been at the forefront of innovation.

Today, it continues to invest in the future, developing technologies, digital solutions and partnerships to unlock new value and make the world's supply network more resilient and regenerative.

Brambles is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and an ASX50 constituent.

The Group employs approximately 13, people, with its largest operations in North America and Europe.

For further information, please visit Brambles is an accredited Top Employer and offers a range of employee benefits including a competitive salary, fully maintained vehicle or car allowance (for selected roles), bonus opportunities, a supportive learning and development culture and a wide range of opportunities to assist you in achieving your career aspirations.

Brambles provides you unparalleled opportunities to advance and accelerate your career and is large enough to take you anywhere and small enough to make sure you get there.

Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Paid volunteer leave for those who wish to volunteer their services to a community organisation – 3 days per annum
• Reward and Recognition Program to celebrate outstanding achievements of our people through a number of different delivery methods
• Employee discounts with a range of partners
• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers and 2 weeks of paid parental leave for secondary caregivers
• Unparalleled opportunities to advance and accelerate your career
• Attractive options to purchase Brambles shares
• Our team boasts a friendly and fun culture that celebrates successes, with award‑winning engagement and enablement, and results achieved through collective intelligence, collaboration, and teamwork.
• With a highly inclusive workplace rich in diversity, Brambles celebrates the diversity of thought, backgrounds, style and working arrangements of our people to ensure that we reflect the communities and customers that we serve.
• Join our team to be part of an international growth company with an advantaged and highly sustainable business model.

You will be working for a company that is changing the way goods get to market.

You will join an efficient and collaborative team who punches above its weight.

For your application to be considered, you will require full working rights in Australia.

We are unable to offer sponsorship currently.

Position Purpose

Proven practitioner, proactively leading in using advanced analytical techniques and tools to uncover context and deep understanding of our complex data, using diverse datasets and reports.

Acts as a mentor and role‑model of insights analytics to build capability throughout the business.

Supports leaders by interpreting and communicating crucial insights to contribute to data‑informed decision‑making, enabling Brambles to enhance performance, optimise processes, and achieve its strategic objectives.

As the Senior Data Analyst, you will lead the technical data analysis and visualisation designs to achieving business outcomes, providing thought leadership to the processes, tools & systems needed, researching, and maintaining best practices.

This will include the E2E management of end‑user defects and minor enhancements.

This position will develop business solutions from the generation of new demand for data services and the constant modification of the existing suite of business intelligence products and is responsible for the design, development & delivery of scalable Dashboard and Report Visualisations, including the build of pixel‑perfect reporting, that utilises best practice techniques and processes across APAC.

The Senior Data Analyst additionally designs, codes, debugs, tests, documents, trains and supports server‑based applications such as SQL & PowerBI consistent with established business requirements and specifications to deliver the highest possible value to the business.

Major / Key Accountabilities

• Working with the business to define & create insight to action (data storytelling) reports / dashboards, proof of concepts and general data analysis / data profiling for a variety of stakeholders across Finance; Sales & Customer Solutions; Operations; Logistics; Marketing and Customer Experience that enable data based decision making in achieving the regions KPI’s and financial objectives.
• Translating business requirements into technical UX & UI designs, building out the logical and conceptual data models and data flows that are in support of project requirements, guiding key stakeholders in appropriate and effective use of data to achieve stated business outcomes.
• Identifies, communicates, and endeavours to resolve data gaps that impact the fulfilment of the business's functional requirements that also looks to provide innovative analytical insights in the delivery of key projects.
• Works within an agile environment, building products iteratively, further supporting the business through the execution of change‑management activities with regard to data analysis & data products across key stakeholders that drive adoption and ease of use.
• Collect and prepare data, often iteratively, helping to identify the business data needed to produce and prioritise the most useful insights and partnering with Data Management and IT teams to drive and implement data stewardship.
• Conduct detailed data analysis on data used across the business to evaluate business processes and improve on / create new features, solutions, tools, and capabilities to enable self‑service frameworks for data consumers.
• Build the analytics engine by ensuring that the solution solves the business problem in the most efficient and interpretable form for business users.
• Provide technical expertise within PowerBI & SQL applications to include Application Administration; Technical Design; Configuration / Customisation; Data Migration / Conversion; Database Analysis; Database Modelling; Interfaces; Defect resolution; Deployment; Functional Training and support.
• Working collaboratively with the Data Engineer and the Data Scientist across various projects.
• A key part of this role is to help develop a data‑driven organisation in terms of structure, systems, style, people resources skills, shared values and strategy execution.

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in programming, analytics, business intelligence, or equivalent.
• Proven experience & expertise in developing animated and interactive visualisations.
• Proven experience in developing & implementing data storytelling techniques using Visualization Tools (PowerBI; Tableau; Qlik).
• Proven experience is designing the User Interface and Experience that provide a data storytelling visualisation of the key insights and prescriptive actions.
• Experience in establishing PowerBI environments (development, test, acceptance and production).
• Extensive experience developing data models in both PowerBI & SQL.
• Proven experience in developing pixel‑perfect reporting using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and PowerBI Premium / Embed.
• Proven experience using Power Apps & Power Automate as a technical solution to solve business problems.
• Proven experience working with Confluence; Jira; Bitbucket for Test Management and Version Control.
• (Preferable) Experience with SSIS data integration tools.
• (Preferable) Experience building HTML5 based apps with complex interaction with web services.
• (Preferable) Experience coding in R or Python.
• (Preferable) Experience working with SAP ECC & SAP BW / Hanna & Business Objects.
• 5+ years' experience and deep knowledge of PowerBI (DAX Studio, M‑Data Mashup); SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
• 5+ years' experience with programming skills in JavaScripting; SQL, MySQL; SQL Server, SSMS.
• Up to 1-year experience of using ETL tools (AWS Glue; Informatica; Azure Data Factory; Flat Files; SSIS).
• Excellent communication / listening & data storytelling skills.
• Ability to form relationships with key stakeholders in the delivery of data solutions.
• Excellent analysis skills and the ability to develop processes and methodologies.
• Knowledge of Agile Project Management; Practices and Techniques.
• Great understanding of Data literacy concepts and proven experience with data translation techniques.
• Thought Leader, can anticipate & provide scenario's for different problems.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Commerce, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or other relevant fields and at least 5 years' experience in projects and data analytics.

Skills and Knowledge

• Python – Can guide others to write clean, reusable, scalable code.
• Build pipelines for continuous improvement, writing Python scripts to automate testing, deployment, and rollback processes to ensure a smooth and reliable CI / CD pipeline.
• Advanced monitoring, logging and custom tooling.
• Write scripts to interact with cloud APIs, handling authentication, error handling, and maximising availability.
• System Programming Languages – Can guide and support others in the development, testing, and deployment of cloud‑native applications, services and infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot issues with guidance from senior team members.
• Support the integration of cloud applications with edge devices using system programming languages for low‑level interactions and communication.
• Kernel‑level development and optimisation.
• Develop and implement networking protocols.
• Design – Understanding and use of event‑based design, object‑oriented design, functional design, multi‑tenant design, domain‑driven design – and knowing which design approach is best suited for the particular problem and abstraction to solve complex problems.
• Ability to design at both the high level (the forest) and the low level (the tree); and include understanding of current design approaches used "in the field", and when they are appropriate to the use cases relevant to the platform being built.
• Tooling – Use of well‑established tools such as databases and Structured Query Language (SQL), and new leading‑edge tools such as Kubernetes and the eco‑system of tools around a particular language or programming environment with continuous research and learning of emerging new tools in a rapidly changing computing landscape.
• Systems Thinking – Thinking abstractly to incorporate multiple perspectives; work within a space where the boundary or scope of problem or system may be "fuzzy"; understand diverse operational contexts of the system; identify inter‑ and intrarelationships and dependencies; understand complex system behaviour; and reliably predict the impact of change to the system.
• Cloud Platforms – Ability to navigate cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, and use them effectively as the technical landscape for building Brambles specific platforms (both multi‑tenant and purely internal).

Platform Context

The platforms built within Brambles Digital need to be "cloud‑native" and run securely, effectively and correctly at scale.

Remote Type

Hybrid Remote.

Skills to Succeed

• Active Learning
• Adaptability
• Critical Thinking
• Cross‑Functional Work
• Curiosity
• Data Analytics
• Data Visualization
• Digital Literacy
• Emotional Intelligence
• Empathy
• Initiative
• Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (BI)
• Problem Solving
• Python (Programming Language)
• Regression Analysis
• R Programming
• SQL Tools
• Tableau (Software)

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential.

This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.

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