Group Data Insights and Reporting Analyst

Alistair Group is one of East and Southern Africa’s fastest-growing service companies, providing a variety of self-delivered logistics solutions across several geographies, aimed with the vision to Make Africa Work Better! With core competencies in road freight, warehousing, commodity trading and operational hire of material handling equipment, the Group strives for continuous expansion of innovative ancillary services to grow the business vertically, complimented by a healthy dose of entrepreneurial flair. The business has gone from strength to strength, growing quickly in both its geographical coverage and variety of services offered to clients. In 2024, the Group exceeded the 1000 employee mark and managed a fleet of well over 1000 trucks. With Alistair’s aggressive and exciting growth strategy, the Group is poised for significant further expansion and a greater impact in Africa.

Core Services:

• Freight Forwarding
• Clearance & Forwarding
• Energy Industry Support Services
• Equipment Rental
• Commodity Trading
• Integrated Solutions
• Warehousing
• Ocean Freight

Industries:

• Mining
• Oil & Gas
• Agriculture
• Construction
• Explosives
• Renewables

Mission

To make Africa work better

Company Values

Honesty, Customer Focus, Continual Improvement, Humility, and Safety

Accountabilities & Responsibility Areas

1. Strategic Insight Generation

• Own and lead delivery of cross-departmental analytics projects that inform executive decisions, from operational optimisation to financial forecasting.

• Proactively identify high-leverage data opportunities and build reporting ecosystems that enable teams to act with confidence and speed.

• Translate business objectives into data initiatives, ensuring outputs are actionable, relevant, and value-driven.

 

2. Data Architecture & Reporting Frameworks

• Design and maintain scalable, maintainable reporting systems (dashboards, automated reports, models) that support users from front-line teams to executives.

• Establish consistent definitions and KPIs across business units to enable Group-wide alignment.

• Act as the product owner for the analytics stack—prioritising developments, driving adoption, and evolving tooling as business needs grow.
   

3. Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Serve as the go-to analytics partner for Planning, Ops, Finance, Tech, and Executive leadership, with a mandate to unify and elevate the Group’s data maturity.

• Lead cross-team analytics initiatives—e.g. performance benchmarking, forecasting tools, pricing or capacity planning models—that require deep collaboration and influence.

4. Coaching, Standards, and Governance

• Mentor and upskill analysts and data consumers across departments; set best practices for analytical work, from SQL/query design to dashboarding.

• Maintain documentation and data governance standards to ensure reliability and repeatability in analytics outputs.
   

5. Special Projects and Innovation

• Lead “special forces” analytics efforts—time-sensitive, complex projects where precision, innovation, and cross-functional alignment are key.

• Champion the use of new tools and methodologies (e.g. predictive modelling, scenario simulation, automation) to advance analytics capability.

​​​​​​​Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years in data/analytics, with experience leading cross-functional initiatives.

• Strong grasp of business operations, financial logic, and stakeholder management.

• High-level proficiency in tools such as SQL, Python, Power BI / Tableau / Looker Studio / Smartsheets (as appropriate).

• Experience managing complex reporting pipelines and coordinating inputs from multiple teams.

• Strong communicator with ability to “translate” technical outputs into business actions.

Work Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:20 AM – 4:20 PM, and Alternate Saturdays, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

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