Careers

Eighty20 is a leading data driven consumer analytics and research business. We are passionate about helping our clients use data properly to create value, by leveraging our unique combination of strategic consulting services and data products. We help businesses to better understand and engage with their customers to deliver value.

Our clients include large banks and retailers, who trust us to set up cloud-based solutions to help maximise value from their marketing, loyalty, campaigning and other customer-focussed initiatives. Our broad offering and industry leading toolsets enable our clients to develop winning data strategies that deliver tangible value quickly.

We are looking for a Senior Consultant/ Engagement Manager to join our team. The role will offer you the opportunity to be a thought leader, utilise your problem-solving skills, develop new client relationships and oversee workstream teams. The candidate should have sound interpersonal and communication skills, be able to guide the prioritisation of projects/deliverables and manage delivery in line with agreed deadlines to meet the needs of clients.

• Minimum of 6 years’ experience in management consulting
• Capabilities in strategy, data analytics or modelling (financial or statistical) experience
• Relevant qualification – minimum bachelor’s degree
• Actuarial science, finance, engineering, or equivalent degrees are beneficial
• Comfortable with presenting to executives
• Ability to build and develop client relationships
• Ability to provide teams with technical and methodological guidance
• Excellent people skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Independent worker, limited supervision required
• Flexibility to work on a wide range of projects
• Preference for candidates with experience in developing and managing teams
• Off-site work is required
• Highly proficient in Excel
• Sound financial modelling capability
• Strong project management skills
• Experience in banking, retail and loyalty beneficial
• Database experience e.g., SQL, MySQL is beneficial

Responsibilities (Include, but not limited to)

• Delivering results:
  • Problem framing
  • Problem solving and solution design – structured approach to problem solving
  • Financial modelling – DCF modelling capabilities
  • Data analytics – knowledge and experience with data analysis tools
  • Peer review technical work – attention to detail, lateral thinking for stress-testing results
  • Structured communications
  • Presenting to clients
• Engagement Management
  • Project Management – overall Project success (within time, budget, scope & quality)
  • Client Relationships – good interpersonal and communication skills
  • Team Collaboration – ensure that the team works well together to deliver result
• Building the Firm
  • Team and people development – Provide guidance and support to Analysts
  • Knowledge sharing and continual improvement – growing IP base
  • Thought leadership – Show originality and creativity in thought and solutions
• Sales
  • Identify upselling opportunities
  • Building proposals for opportunities identified

Application

Eighty20 is a leading data driven consumer analytics and research business. We are passionate about helping our clients use data properly to create value, by leveraging our unique combination of strategic consulting services and data products. We help businesses to better understand and engage with their customers to deliver value.Our clients include large banks and retailers, who trust us to set up cloud-based solutions to help maximise value from their marketing, loyalty, campaigning and other customer-focussed initiatives. Our broad offering and industry leading toolsets enable our clients to develop winning data strategies that deliver tangible value quickly.

We are looking for a Business Development Manager to join our team. The role will offer you the opportunity to be a thought leader, utilise your problem-solving skills, develop new client relationships and oversee workstream teams. The candidate should have sound interpersonal and communication skills, be able to guide the prioritisation of projects/deliverables and manage delivery in line with agreed deadlines to meet the needs of clients. The general purpose of the Business Development Manager role is to drive the growth and profitability (full Profit & Loss responsibilities which will enable the achievement of business objectives.

• Strong Sales & Marketing management capability.
• Ability to establish vision and think strategically, and to drive a strategic focus within the Sales & Marketing function
• Strong Business Acumen
• Excellent customer focus
• Advanced entrepreneurial, innovation skills and negotiation skills
• Effective organisational skills
• Ability to influence people at all levels, with an ability to drive the outcome of decisions at the senior most levels in customer organisations
• Excellent negotiation, communication and presentation skills at all levels and forums
• Proven track record of setting strategy and translating it into actionable plans
• Tertiary qualifications mandatory (Bachelor’s Degree at least) in Sales & Marketing or related business discipline.
• MBA qualifications would be highly regarded.

Responsibilities (Include, but not limited to)

• Maintain full commercial responsibility for ensuring relevant sales targets are met.
• Establish sales goals and objectives for the business, and develop the annual strategic business plans, which will deliver growth, gain in market share, increased profitability and operational improvement.
•  Develop specific growth strategies for key target markets across the business.

• Develop annual sales budgets which achieve agreed Profit & Loss goals.
• Assess the potential of new market opportunities. In conjunction with key customers, evaluate customers’ unmet needs in the market, market size & trends, competitive environment, substitute technologies, competitive advantage, and financial implications. Lead efforts to develop these opportunities into new business, including negotiating partnerships and alliances.
• Ensure profitable and effective management of the Data Portal.
• Manage the development and implementation of sales & marketing plans for agreed target markets in relation to sales strategies, product range, pricing, margins, market positioning, advertising & promotion, etc.
• Develop, implement and maintain service & support programs that position Eighty20 as a valued partner.
• Identify opportunities for brand building, and thereby growing the business, through ensuring the Sales & Marketing works closely with key customers to develop creative marketing initiatives and product solutions.
• Develop strong, effective relationships with key business alliances to drive opportunities for growth within current markets, while creatively looking at new business development initiatives.
• Upping the level and frequency of strategic customer engagement at executive level / top to top
• Successfully stretching the business and brand into new channels and product categories

Competencies and skills required:

• Relevant qualification (minimum bachelor’s degree in actuarial science, commerce, engineering            or equivalent)
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office (particularly Excel)
• Highly proficient in SQL (MySQL / HP Vertica / similar)
•  BI experience highly beneficial
•  Excellent problem solver and independent worker
• Attention to detail
• Effective and professional communication
• Previous work experience and / or internships is beneficial

Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Preparing reports and presentations and deriving business insights
• Developing business cases
•  Assistance with analytical solution design
• Campaign measurement
• Ad hoc analytics (scenario modelling, impact analysis, etc)

BI Development:

• Designing, building and deploying timeous, relevant and accurate management reporting, using Microsoft Power BI
• Interact with stakeholders and guide them in unlocking the value in the analytics provided
•  Identify and recommend new ways to streamline business processes
• Respond to ongoing business requirements by improving the business intelligence solution through continual development (research), maintenance, support and enhancement
• Create & maintain business intelligence solution standards
• Train analysts in the use of Business Intelligence solutions
• Assisting in aligning systems strategy and the roadmap with business needs / requirements
• Develop and execute database queries and create data visualisations
• Perform complex data analysis in support of ad-hoc requests
• Develop and update technical documentation
• Enhance reporting data structure

Other:

• Active member of a project team
• Mentor and guide junior team members
•  Client engagement as and when required

Application

To apply please take the Business Insights Analyst Challenge

Please submit your CV to recruiting@eighty20.co.za.

Please note that we may not be able to get back to all applicants. If you do not hear back from us within 3 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Eighty20 is an exciting, innovative, and rapidly growing data science and research strategy business. We are currently looking for a data engineer to join our tech team. The role will offer you the opportunity to manage existing and design, develop and implement new data pipeline solutions that assist the team of analysts and consultants to address client needs. The candidate should be highly numerate with a keen interest and proven ability in the areas of data management.

Since data, often sourced from client systems, is the lifeblood of our consulting and analytics service offering,  our data engineers are passionate about data pipelines as well as exploring and understanding the data it manages to ensure quality, integrity and fit for purpose for downstream analysis.

Competencies and skills required:

• 2-3 years relevant experience
• Relevant qualification (minimum bachelor’s degree in mathematics, engineering, computer science, information systems or equivalent)
• Proficient with SQL (preferably MySQL / Postgres / Vertica)
• Proficient with a scripting language (preferably python/bash) and software version control (git)
• ETL skills essential (parameterization, creativity, problem solving and attention to detail)
• Experience with ETL tools beneficial (preferably Airflow)
• Linux and Docker experience beneficial
• Cloud experience beneficial (e.g. AWS)
• Organised independent worker with good communication skills
• Willingness to learn additional languages, frameworks and data technologies

Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Building, maintaining and optimising ETL pipeline code
• Monitoring data processes
• Trouble shoot data issues and identify anomalies
• Liaising with client data teams
• Assist analysts with data investigations and with identifying, sourcing and onboarding new data feeds
• Ensure best practise data governance and data security
• Active member of a project team (code review, data investigations, adhoc support)

Application

Please submit your CV to recruiting@eighty20.co.za.

Please note that we may not be able to get back to all applicants. If you do not hear back from us within 7 working days, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Eighty20 is a growing data analytics consultancy and research business. Our products and services include online BI and data aggregation tools, locally and outsourced hosted environments, and a number of internally developed segmentation, personalisation and analytical engines to service client needs.

Requirements

1. Passion for building backend data engineering and business processing systems (building the tools others use)
2. Relevant tertiary qualification (e.g. Degree in Software development, Computer science, Engineering or equivalent qualification)
3. 4 -10 years’ programming experience
4. Strong Experience in SQL, Python and Linux
5. Strong Experience with data engineering and API server frameworks in a Data Analytics environment (e.g. Airflow, Flask)
6. Strong Experience with software version control of application software as well as ad hoc and routine ETL and analytics processes
7. Experience with cloud-based Databases and Services, especially AWS
8. Experience working in software development and maintenance teams using agile software development)
9. Portfolio of online courses and/or personal projects showing experience in the above technologies and techniques
10. Willingness to learn additional languages, frameworks and data technologies

We are looking for a Developer to join our Product Development Team with the following responsibilities:

• The role of Developer will involve leading the product developers and working on multiple product development and maintenance projects
• The majority of their time will be spent doing solutioning and technical development
• Responsible to deliver packaged code and for QA within planning parameters, including Scope, Functionality, Quality and Non-functional requirements
• Leads product design and develops technical specifications
• Develops technical and high risk functions
• Reviews and deploys production code
• Provides support technical training, mentoring and support to other more junior developers within the team

Skills and Attributes

• Strong conceptual thinking skills, creativity and flexibility
• Strong technical software development skills
• Strong analytical, organisational and core project management skills
• Good communication and documentation skills
• Good presentation skills
• Work independently and within teams

Application

Please submit your CV to recruiting@eighty20.co.za.

Please note that we may not be able to get back to all applicants. If you do not hear back from us within 3 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.