Location: Rivonia-Johannesburg
About Procter & Gamble
We create globally recognized brands and develop the industry’s greatest business executives. With a portfolio of trusted brands as diverse as ours, it is critical that our leaders can courageously lead across a wide range of brands, segments, and roles. We have one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands in the world, including Always®, Ariel®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Herbal Essences®, Pampers®, Pantene®, and others. Our global community has activities in about 70 countries
Job Description
What is your role as an IT intern?
What are your responsibilities as an IT intern?
- Lead and improve analytical initiatives, and communicate to leaders the findings of your business unit/category/region.
- Analyze your company’s varied, granular data and utilize advanced models on a regular basis to give business insights across multiple business categories.
- Respond to and anticipate crucial business questions and opportunities, and communicate insights to the business in meaningful ways.
- To gain business insights from our mountains of data, demonstrate the usage of data visualization (Tableau, Power BI, Excel) and analytic tools (Python, R, SQL, KNIME/Alteryx).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Marketing, Finance, IT, and Sales) to improve critical business priorities based on data insights.
Job Qualifications
- Part-time study toward a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a quantitative discipline (Operation Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Math, Statistics, Physics, Analytics, and so on).
- Experience tackling identified business challenges utilizing analytics methodologies (AI/Machine Learning, Econometrics, Operations Research, Statistics, Root Cause Diagnostics).
- Capability to illustrate, translate, and explain complex data into straightforward business conclusions and actions.
- Strong interpersonal skills, especially the ability to tell a compelling story to persuade others to accept your suggestions based on data and insights.
- Data management and visualization skills/tools in one or more of the following areas are required: Databricks, SQL, KNIME, Tableau, Power BI, JMP/SPSS, or a similar package.
- Python/R proficiency or demonstrated technical competence and desire to learn.
- Self-motivated to work with varied business scenarios, prioritizing many tasks, and has a business and consultancy mindset, while also being technically (data) smart and passionate about developing new/innovative ways of doing things.
This is a 12-month contract position that requires you to devote 3-4 days a week to the internship.
Closing Date
Not Specified