About us

Wasoko is transforming communities across Africa by revolutionizing access to essential goods and services. By connecting small shops to the digital economy, we fix inefficient supply chains and provide previously unavailable services. Wasoko aims to provide everything a retailer needs, no wholesalers or banks necessary.

Thousands of retailers across East and West Africa use Wasoko's mobile ordering and delivery platform to receive the goods they need as quickly and cheaply as possible while also accessing growth financing for the first time. We’re looking to grow our team with highly talented and motivated employees who are excited to work in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment.

Position: Team Lead, Financial Services and Logistics, reporting to Global Head of Business Intelligence

We are looking for an experienced leader with a deep interest and passion for e-commerce businesses in the B2B & B2B2C space. You should have the ability to analyze sophisticated business challenges using data from a wide range of sources and providing measurable insights to inform key decisions. You identify and interpret patterns in business operations and datasets to drive insights into actions.

You should be self-driven and motivated with the desire to work in a fast-paced, results-driven and agile environment.

Locations: Zanzibar, Tanzania or Nairobi, Kenya

Duties & Responsibilities

• Owning company-wide financial services and logistics analytics
• Leading a team of 3 data analysts
• Building new and maintaining existing PowerBI reports
• Ensuring data quality and effectiveness of BI tools and data models
• Performing high-impact analyses and providing insights into the business
• Collecting requirements/specs from stakeholders and transforming them into tangible reports
• Drafting functional and technical documentation
• Bridging between business stakeholders and the tech team
• Training members of other business units on the use of self-service BI

Requirements:

• Strong B2B, B2C/B2B2C e-commerce domain knowledge
• 7+ years prior experience in the Data world
• 3+ years prior experience in leading Data Engineering & Data Science teams
• Bachelor or Masters degree in a quantitative field from a premier institute
• Excellent problem solving, prototyping articulation & communication skills
• Experience with ETL, Data Lake, Data Mart, Data Analytics, Data Models & Statistics
• Ability to think critically and communicate clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing
• Experience working in a fast paced environment leading multiple high-priority issues
• Experience using data tools and any programming languages like (Python or R and SQL)
• Experience using data visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau, Qlik, etc.)