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Job Title:  Data Specialist

Organisation: Beyond Logistics Limited (BLL)

Duty Station:  Bweyogerere, Wakiso District, Uganda

Reports to: Acting Head of Strategy

Supervises: None

About US:  

Beyond Logistics Limited (BLL) is a health supply chain and logistics company offering comprehensive and efficient supply chain solutions, including logistics project management, procurement, warehousing, distribution, repackaging, and labelling. BLL is a private limited company established in April 2013, located at Plot 1661, Kakajjo zone, Bweyogerere Link Road, Wakiso.

Job Purpose: The Data Specialist will be responsible for the overall data quality assurance and optimizing the value and application of data for decision making in the organization.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Data analytics and performance reporting

• Apply advanced data science, statistical and predictive modelling techniques to build, maintain, and improve on multiple real-time decision systems.
• Conduct end-to-end data mining against specific processes and activities to identify and treat any identified gaps. Enhance data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems.
• Facilitate desired productivity and quality performance from team and stakeholders, based on defined KPIs.
• Report to management on the progress of data quality improvement and help resolve data quality problems through appropriate process design strategies, as well as error detection, correction tests and procedures.
• Develop and maintain performance dashboards and scorecards for the organization.

Data and information management

• Partner with process owners to develop and adhere to policy and procedure manuals, standard systems, and methods for managing business processes, enable sustainable improvements in business results.
• Develop and continuously check the organization’s data privacy policy or monitor compliance of data process flows against data quality standards.
• Store and retrieve data from a data base, organize it in a logical and functional manner.
• Create flowcharts and diagrams to illustrate how data is stored and how tables relate to each other.
• Link dashboards and scorecards to data base reports.

Strategic planning

• Recommend actions for improving the organizations performance based on evidence-based analysis of the performance metrics and other business intelligence tools.
• Conduct market analysis and maintain a database of industry statistics to provide up-to-date information for decision making.
• Support the Strategy Development and Review process. This entails coordinating the information and stakeholder needs in a coherent manner to develop and/or review the organizations long-term strategic objectives.
• Performance Management. Oversee reporting of the organization’s performance in relation to the long-term strategic objectives to enable corrective interventions to be put in place in a timely manner.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Data Science, Health Informatics, Software Engineering or Computer Science, or any other highly numerical degree attained from a recognized institution.
• Formal Training or Certification from a recognized institution in one of the following: Data Science, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics and Big Data (completed or enrolled) is an added advantage.
• At least two years of proven experience in developing and maintaining data management systems.
• Proficiency in statistical analysis, quantitative analytics, forecasting/predictive analytics, multivariate testing, and optimization algorithms.
• Algorithmic and structured thinking
• Excellent programming skills, preferably; Java, Python, R-programming, SQL
• Knowledge of machine learning and big data techniques
• Excel power user
• Results oriented.
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to work under minimal supervision.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Ability to manage dynamic team.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested individuals should submit their applications including a cover letter, updated Curriculum Vitae, photocopies of academic documents, photocopy of a national ID or passport and other relevant documents to hr@beyondlogisticsug.com in one PDF formatted document. Please write a job title in the email subject line.

Deadline: Friday, 29^th September 2023 at 5pm.

NB: Please note that only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted. For inquiries, please contact us on +256 393 228 896

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