Business Strategy and Data Analyst

Boston Red Sox and Fenway Sports Management • Boston, MA

82d

About The Position

The Boston Red Sox are seeking a talented self-starter with a strong analytics background and a passion for the business side of sports to join the organization’s business strategy and analytics team in an analyst role. The analyst will act in both a support role, helping the team deliver insights across the organization, as well as in an independent capacity, creating and spearheading new strategic initiatives.

Requirements

• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Background (either academic or professional) in quantitative analysis.
• Experience with a statistical software package (e.g. R, SPSS).
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills.
• A passion for solving unstructured problems and the ability to take projects from start to finish under tight timelines.
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills.
• A history of success both driving projects independently as well as working within a larger team.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Tableau, Salesforce, Google BigQuery, Python, and SQL preferred.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the business strategy & analytics department on a day-to-day basis, including attending meetings, generating insights, and taking ownership of specific projects.
• Leveraging our data environment to respond to data and reporting requests from various departments across the organization.
• Building and maintaining a variety of predictive models, especially around dynamic ticket pricing, demand modeling, and customer engagement.
• Helping maintain and develop our Google Cloud data environment.
• Handling daily data and analytics requests throughout the year, freeing up departmental resources and acting as a key point-person for a variety of internal stakeholders.
• Building relationships and creating efficiencies across departments throughout the front office.
• Working with our data and reporting team to help structure our evolving data environment in an appropriate way to improve our customer visibility and help drive revenue.
• Coordinating partnerships between vendors and internal stakeholders to support adoption and best-practices of third-party tools and platforms.
• Generally supporting the organizational goal of expanding the use of data and analytics within the entire Red Sox front office.

What This Job Offers

• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees