Senior Marketing Analytics Lead

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

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.