Analytics and Insights Intern at Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) is the largest African Coca-Cola bottler, accounting for 40% of all Coca-Cola volumes on the continent. CCBA has an extensive footprint in Africa, employing over 17,000 employees, and serving a combined population of over 300 million people across the continent.

The CCBA vision is to refresh Africa every day and make the continent a better place for all, growing successfully as a business and creating a better-shared future for our people, customers, consumers, communities, planet and shareholders. We conduct ourselves with the utmost integrity for shared value and the greater good. We are a world-class, customer-orientated, socially and environmentally conscious fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company that is driven by engaged, motivated and inspired employees.

Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) has an exciting opportunity in our Strategy & Performance department. We are looking for talented individuals with relevant skills and experience for an Analytics and Insights Intern at Midrand. The successful candidate will report directly to the Analytics and Insights Lead.

Key Purpose Statement

To undergo 12 months of a formal programme aimed at providing work experience and acquisition of knowledge related to Analytics and Insights within the Strategy Department.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Support the Analytics & Insights team with the following tasks:

• Interacting with stakeholders to understand their data analytics and visualisation requirements.
• Extracting, processing, analysing and converting data into useful formats to share with stakeholders in the business.
• Guiding and informing strategic initiatives, operational planning, and decision-making using modern tools and/or predictive models.
• Building expertise in diverse and emerging technologies, concepts and principles for predictive analytics, data visualisation and data storage.
• Execute continuous improvements of existing reporting requirements or processes by either automating these or migrating them to modern and better platforms.
• Derive insights that can provide business improvement or provide new opportunities.

Skills, Experience & Education

Qualifications / Experience

• A minimum of a relevant Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field like computer science, engineering, statistics, mathematics or a related field required
• Relevant work experience would be an advantage
• Competent in Microsoft Office (Excel)
• Knowledge/Experience of Visualisation tools (i.e. Power BI)
• Programming in Python and/or R, SAS.
• Familiarity with cloud services like Azure

Competencies

Customer orientation:

• Be dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers. Always acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

Problem Solving:

• Use rigorous logic and methods to solve problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.

Good Communication:

• The ability to express oneself clearly in conversations and interactions with others and tailors the content of speech to the level and experience of the audience.

Teamwork:

• The ability to work well in teams comprising members of one’s own work unit or discipline. Including being flexible and can work with a wide variety of different people on different tasks.

Organising:

• The ability to marshal resources (material, support) to get things done; can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; this includes using resources effectively and efficiently to arrange information and files in a useful manner.