Welcome to the company where curiosity drives growth. Our mission is to deliver valuable insights that help businesses thrive across Africa, but we know it all starts with our people. How? By giving you the opportunity to learn, grow, and become the best version of yourself while making an impact!
Open Positions
Company Overview
At Sagaci Research, we believe in Africa’s boundless potential. We shine light on African realities by leveraging data science and technology to build tools that allow our customers to have the most precise and up-to-date understanding of the African consumer. We are a global, multicultural team committed to providing deep insights that empower growth across the continent.
Job Description
As a Research Executive in our Quantitative Team, you will deliver end-to-end quantitative consumer research projects, and leverage internal data to answer client’s needs. You will be reporting to the Consumer Insights Research Director. The position is based in either of our offices in Barcelona, Spain or Nairobi, Kenya.
Your tasks
- Preparing questionnaires and defining samples to allow proper data collection
- Monitoring fieldwork to ensure proper execution and data quality
- Analyzing research data, using statistics to provide high quality interpretation of the findings
- Synthesizing information and insights into clear reports, tailoring presentations to the clients’ needs and presenting to clients
- Being the day-to-day contact for projects, liaising effectively with internal team
- Coordinating and managing tasks to ensure projects run smoothly and effectively, accurately, on time and within budget
- Proposing product improvements to better answer clients’ needs and/or facilitate internal processes.
Your profile
- Experience in quantitative market research, technical consumer insights, sensory consumer insights, marketing or management consulting
- Experience of simultaneously running multiple market research projects and multiple tasks (including client interactions, questionnaire design and report writing)
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Strong work ethic, highly collaborative, curious and client oriented
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English. French would be a plus
Company Overview
At Sagaci Research, we believe in Africa’s boundless potential. We shine light on African realities by leveraging data science and technology to build tools that allow our customers to have the most precise and up-to-date understanding of the African consumer. We are a global, multicultural team committed to providing deep insights that empower growth across the continent.
Job Description
As a Senior Data Analyst, you will work hand-in-hand with our quantitative research team to build the technical tools supporting our products, setting-up client interfaces and internal data analysis processes. You will be responsible for the technical pipeline — enabling the team on efficient data collection and analysis and transforming raw data into interactive, actionable visualizations that reveal the truth of the African market. You will report to the Consumer Insights Research Director and be based in our head office in Barcelona, Spain.
Your tasks
- Data analysis process: own, recommend and enable an efficient and high quality process for quantitative data analysis.
- Develop tools and training needed to support the research and scripting teams collaboration and serve as the reference to enable projects’ delivery.
- Statistical Validation: serve as a guide to the research team on applying advanced statistical methods. Ensure high quality data analysis, supporting the development of regression, drivers and segmentation modeling
- Dashboard Development: design and maintain interactive dashboards to answer both internal needs and client-direct data interaction
- Research Collaboration: liaise effectively with internal research team members to translate their research objectives into technical requirements. Develop custom metrics within our database to provide deeper layers of analysis
- Act as a day-to-day coach for Scripting and Data Analysts to grow company data expertise
Your profile
- Technical Core: Proficiency in SQL and Python or R is required for data manipulation, automation, and the calculation of complex indicators.
- Visualization: Hands-on experience with Grafana is highly appreciated. Experience with other visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker) is also valued.
- Advanced Statistics: A strong grasp of statistics is required, specifically the ability to move beyond basic reporting to create complex, weighted, or derived indicators.
- Experience: Significant experience in data analysis or marketing analytics.
- Collaboration: a positive can-do attitude and high collaboration skills to support the research team and enable clients’ needs
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication in English.