Junior Analyst, Supply Chain Analytics

Location:

Kempton Park

Time Type:
Full Time

Support the design and development of internal analytics dashboards that deliver clear, actionable insights on degree of digitalization in DSV and core digital domains. Assist in translating raw data and business requirements into intuitive, visually effective reporting solutions. Contribute to the innovation of analytics offerings by exploring new tools, techniques, and visualisation approaches. Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure reporting solutions meet business needs.

This role is ideal for a curious, analytically minded individual who enjoys problem‑solving, working with data, and applying creative thinking to improve how insights are delivered to internal teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics or a closely related field.

• Advanced MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook.

• Power BI and/or Tableau.
• Proficiency in SQL for data extraction and transformation - strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with at least one scripting or programming language (e.g. Python, R, DAX, or M) is strongly preferred.

• 2–3 years of experience in supply chain analytics, data analysis, business intelligence, or a closely related field.
• Working understanding of supply chain or logistics processes and the data structures that support them (TMS experience is a plus).
• Ability to translate complex datasets into clear, user‑friendly visuals that drive decision‑making.

• Ability to build and publish functional dashboards independently.
• Ability to read, understand, and adapt code snippets — even without deep development experience.

• Develop and maintain dashboards in Power BI, ensuring clarity, performance, and accuracy.
• Write and optimise SQL queries to extract, transform, and validate data from TMS and related systems.
• Collaborate with business teams to gather reporting requirements and translate them into effective data solutions.
• Analyse supply chain data to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for operational improvement.
• Contribute to building and testing standard dashboard templates as part of the service catalogue initiative.
• Support governance processes by ensuring dashboards adhere to defined design standards and documentation requirements.
• Assist with tracking and analysing dashboard usage metrics to recommend experience improvements.
• Proactively explore and propose new analytical techniques or visualisation approaches that could enhance customer insight delivery.
• Maintain clear documentation of solutions, data models, and processes in Confluence and SharePoint.
• Support internal stakeholder training on available dashboards and analytical tools.

Due to the high volume of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should an external candidate not hear from us within four (4) weeks following their application, they should consider their application unsuccessful. Strictly fair and non‑discriminatory selection procedures will be followed. We use affirmative action (AA) measures in an endeavour to redress the disadvantages in employment experienced by designated groups.

Where possible, preference will be given to candidates from the designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act and in line with DSV’s Employment Equity plans. DSV reserves the right to defer or close a vacancy at any time.