Overview
Item Coding Analyst Jobs in Cape Town at Circana
What will you be doing?
Based in South Africa, you will be working as part of the Circana APAC (Australia-based) Item Coding team. An
Item Coding Analyst is responsible for adding new FMCG products from channels like supermarkets, drugstores
and gas stations into the system (Dictionary). The most important target is to make sure that the products with the
highest sales are being added to the Dictionary and placed in the correct product group. By ensuring that the
objective coding rules are being followed and kept up-to-date, the Dictionary Coding employee makes sure that
new products will get coded with high quality.
The employee will be assigned to own product groups, whereby all important product characteristics like brand,
flavor, package, size, etc. are being captured in the database. Different tools are available to ensure a consistent
database which will be used as the input for client databases.
The employee will grow towards a product group expert and will be available for questions from internal
departments about products groups or individual EANS
Job Responsibilities
The Item Coding Analyst is responsible for:
❑ Complete the OPS training programme and panel process within the first 3 months of employment if entering at
this level
❑ Assigning of new FMCG items into the correct product group
❑ Objective, accurate, consistent and correct coding of new FMCG products
❑ Identifying new trends and capturing those within your product groups
❑ Ongoing updating of coding rules to ensure relevancy and high quality
❑ Sharing daily updates during the DMS (Daily Standup)
❑ Replying on questions from both internal and external clients related to your product groups.
❑ Co-operating with your team and other departments to ensure on-time delivery
❑ Improving team/individual KPIs
❑ Liaising with internal and external stakeholders
❑ Maintaining strong internal cross-departmental relationships with local and APAC colleagues.
❑ Keeping all relevant documentation updated
❑ Follow the operational item Coding processes and identify improvement opportunities.
❑ Actively seeks out client product performance in the market to keep relevant.
❑ Display a solid understanding of the business and our service offerings.
❑ Attends training, business updates, knowledge shares and team events as and when required.
❑ Adheres to and enforces to all relevant policies and procedures.
❑ Communicates issues and deadlines to Manager and or team leads as required
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Item Coding Analyst (APAC)
Requirements
❑ Ability to start work from 7:00 am to enable team meetings and handovers with APAC teams.
❑ Associate’s degree (e.g. BCom/BSc)
❑ Working knowledge of Data Models is advantageous
❑ 2+ years FMCG or Data Management experience
❑ Excellent command of the English language
❑ Excellent verbal and written communication skills
❑ Time management
❑ Used to work with KPI’s / targets
❑ Hands-on mentality, resourceful & results oriented
❑ Accurate, consistent, team player, flexible
❑ Analytically strong
❑ Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel
Circana Behaviors
As well as the technical skills, experience and attributes that are required for the role, our shared behaviors sit at
the core of our organization. Therefore, we always look for people who can continuously champion these
behaviors throughout the business within their day-to-day role.
View our success through behaviours playbook to explore what we love, expect and don’t want to see.
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Title: Item Coding Analyst
Company: Circana
Location: Cape Town
