Business Analyst Vacancy at UpEnergy (U)

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Job Title: Business
Analyst
Organization: UpEnergy
(U) Limited
Duty Station: Muyenga,
Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Country
Director
About Us:
UpEnergy (www.upenergygroup.com) is a distribution company that makes
clean energy technologies available to people in the developing world by
addressing the last mile distribution challenge. UpEnergy is a technology
agnostic organization that sources high quality, energy-efficient technologies
like cookstoves, water filters and solar lights from reputable manufacturers.
These technologies are then warehoused, marketed and sold through our own
in-house sales force as well as through other local distributor channels.
UpEnergy creates carbon credits from the distribution of these products which
reduce carbon emissions for every year that they are in use.
In Uganda, UpEnergy has been in operation since 2011 and has built a
network of sales and distribution partners to support ongoing sales of our
products. We have a fully operational local team that operates under the
SmartHome brand. The Kampala team performs sales, finance, marketing and
inventory management functions.
Job Summary: The Business
Analyst will primarily be responsible for data collection, analysis and
reporting of sales and market related data in an ongoing effort to increase
overall sales productivity and inform corporate strategy.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1.  Provide management with
rigorous sales analysis to inform strategy and future allocation of resources:
  • Collect, analyze,
    evaluate and report data in order to increase sales productivity. 
  • Review sales records
    and trends and evaluate performance measured against sales quotas set by
    management to inform decision making.
  • Offer data inputs to
    management to be used in developing and reviewing the sales budget and
    rolling sales forecast including sales to budget variance analysis.
  • Work with management
    to provide recurring, customized reporting that will inform management
    recommendations.
  • Work with management
    to develop reports that track costs by function, process, product and
    initiative.
  • These reports will be
    used to measure ROI.
  • Cross train team
    members on data analysis tools.
2. Support marketing research to determine end-user demand which will
inform product sourcing decisions and price setting:
  • Analyze results from
    in-field willingness to pay and product acceptability tests.
  • Support marketing
    function with data analysis where required.
3. Lean a hand to management in preparation for annual carbon audits.
Perform any other duties as assigned in the administration realm.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The applicant must
    possess a bachelor’s Degree or equivalent required, MBA or masters+ level
    economist/statistician preferred.
  • A minimum of two
    years’ experience in an analyst role.
  • Strong knowledge of
    Microsift Office applications including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
  • Possess the ability to
    perform advanced statistical analysis and experience with related software
    (STATA, ACCESS) will be an added advantage. 
  • Excellent command of
    MS Excel and working knowledge of other database tools like STATA and
    Access preferred.
  • Prior experience with
    customer needs assessments.
  • Strong analytical
    skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret
    sales results and customer trends and translate them into operational
    recommendations.
  • Prior working
    experience delivering time-sensitive reporting to management and
    coordinating simultaneous data analysis requests of varying sizes and
    scope.
  • Excellent verbal and
    written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally
    with a diverse group.
  • Strong Business
    acumen, start-up experience preferred.
  • The applicant must be
    a multi tasker that is creative, ambitious and able to take initiative.
  • Exhibits excellent
    problem-solving ability and judgment.
Salary and Benefits: The
Business Analyst will be compensated competitively and commensurate with
experience.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates should endeavor to send a short cover
letter and resume to Mark Mutaahi (mark@upenergygroup.com)
and Nicole Ballin (nicole@upenergygroup.com). Please clearly indicate
“Uganda Business Analyst” in the subject of the E-mail application.
NB: No phone calls or
posted mail applications, please. Applications will be accepted until the
position is filled.

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