The Cincinnati Bengals are seeking a data driven Business Analyst to be responsible for providing actionable insights in support of strategic initiatives and decision making across the organization. The Business Analyst will drive a strategic and analytical approach to our business and work collaboratively across departments to improve reporting, insights and outcomes. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate analytical skills, business and marketing acumen, with the ability to succinctly visualize findings and make recommendations to drive the business forward. This position reports directly to into and will work closely with the CFO in addition to collaborating with other departments.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conduct analysis to support key strategic organizational decision making
- Build and maintain suite of business intelligence dashboards and reports out of data warehouse
- Identify key insights from large data sets and create visualizations displaying those key insights
- Work with data related to ticket sales, sponsorship, marketing, surveying, food & beverage, merchandise, and more to drive improved financial performance.
- Partner with Data Engineer to manage data warehouse and serve as expert in manipulating data across tables
- Build out Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) scoring and model across existing and future fanbases
- Work closely with marketing, ticket sales and corporate partnerships on outbound marketing segmentation strategy & lead generation monetization efforts
- Conduct qualitative research to understand customer expectations and areas of opportunity
- Meet with executives, department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others to assess, present, and implement solutions for business reporting and/or data needs
- Assist with enterprise operating and capital budgeting processes
- Support Finance department efforts as needed with elated tasks and projects to support business needs such as Pricing and FP&A.
Required Qualifications:
- At least 3-5 years’ experience in a Business Analyst or similar role is highly preferred.
- Experience in sports and/or entertainment industry is highly preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, or related fields with record of strong academic achievement or previous experience performing research & analytics
- MS in Business Analytics or MBA preferred
- Understands the importance of Data Quality & Integrity in reporting reliable and trustworthy data
- Excellent analytical skills – must be able to independently work with large amounts of data, extract relevant information for analysis, and summarize in data visualizations
- Demonstrated leader who is passionate about learning and solving problems as both an individual and part of a team ensuring collaboration is aligned to our core values.
- Proficiency with SQL or similar database querying languages
- Proficiency with Tableau or similar data visualization tools
- Experience with R or Python a plus
- Ability to work successfully with some ambiguity, including some weekends/non-standard hours
Desired:
Experience with either pro or college sports
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.
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