Overview
BUSINESS ANALYST Jobs in Cape Town at Cartrack SA
Listing reference: cartr_000794
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 31 July 2026
Position summary
Industry: IT & Internet
Job category: Others: Transport and Logistics
Location: Cape Town
Contract: Permanent
EE position: No
Introduction
Picup, a last-mile delivery and technology-focused company, powered by a scalable crowd-sourced driver network, seeks an insight-driven Business Analyst to support continuous improvement by delivering operational reports and insights, identifying opportunities for optimisation, and assisting with testing and implementing cost-saving initiatives. As the Business Analyst, you will be responsible for optimising internal and external processes as well a supporting all senior management with ad hoc analysis.
Job description
Process Improvement:
- Logistics Network studies to determine optimal logistics strategies, resource requirements, and cost benefits.
- Logistics driver planning based on client forecasts – build a driver planning tool
- Logistics simulations and model building to determine the impact of proposed change initiatives on service levels and cost.
- Data analysis to determine key trends which drive inefficient use of resources and cost.
- Using data and metrics, both internal and external (market) to make decisions
- Investigate internal processes to identify areas of waste and ways of improving.
- Streamlining and automating administrative processes.
- Ensure compliance with regulations and standards in logistical operations
- Directly contribute to client projects by analysing current systems and processes and making recommendations on improvements.
- Evaluation of all projects.
Reporting:
- Standardising, updating and where possible automating reports.
- Building accurate KPI and activity reports with the aim of measuring resource performance and identifying areas of concern,
- Communicating and presenting reports.
General:
- Interaction with team members, operational and contact centre personnel.
- Preparation of business proposals and presentations.
- Tasks could include the following (project / responsibility dependent):
- Data analysis and reporting (MS Excel, MS Power BI, and SQL)
- Process mapping
Ad-hoc:
- Ad hoc analysis, queries, and business support
- Analyse resource data, identify and investigate any irregularities and provide relevant information to stakeholders
Minimum requirements
- BEng Industrial
- 5 -7 years’ experience in Supply Chain /Logistics-related business or commercial field (Non-negotiable)
- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel
- Intermediate knowledge of Power BI
- Basic SQL knowledge or any other programming language
Competencies:
- Results driven
- Emotional intelligence
- Business acumen
- Leadership
- Communication
- Decision-making
- Resilience and stress tolerance
- Planning and scheduling
- Negotiation skills
- Risk management
- Continuous Improvement
- Data Analysis
- Logistics
- Microsoft Excel
- Modelling
- Power BI
Title: BUSINESS ANALYST
Company: Cartrack SA
Location: Cape Town
