Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EXL is seeking an experienced Analytics Manager to support a client within its Sports, Media and Entertainment practice. The role partners with sports club and league stakeholders to identify high-value analytics opportunities, translate business needs into solutions, perform hands-on analysis, and deliver actionable insights and presentations.
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with club and league stakeholders and understand their strategic priorities, business challenges, and opportunities
- Proactively identify areas where data and analytics can help clubs grow their fan base, increase revenue, and deepen fan engagement
- Translate business problems into well-defined analytics opportunities, hypotheses, and use cases
- Help prioritize opportunities based on business impact, data availability, scalability, and feasibility
- Partner with data scientists and analysts to translate business questions into analytical requirements, hypotheses, and solutions
- Define analytical approaches, success metrics, required data, and expected business outcomes
- Ensure analytics products and models are designed with the end user and business decision in mind
- Use SQL extensively to extract, transform, analyze, and validate data
- Perform exploratory and diagnostic analysis to uncover trends, patterns, opportunities, and business drivers
- Work with large and complex datasets and combine information from multiple data sources
- Use Python/Pandas and other analytical tools for deeper analysis, modeling, and visualization where appropriate
- Turn analytical findings into clear, practical recommendations that clubs can act upon
- Maintain technical depth to independently investigate data, validate analyses, and contribute directly to analytical deliverables
- Present complex analytical concepts and findings in a simple, compelling, business-oriented manner
- Build executive-ready presentations and narratives that connect data to business outcomes
- Review analytical approaches, outputs, and recommendations to ensure quality and business relevance
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in analytics, business strategy, consulting, or a related field, with meaningful experience working directly with a professional sports club/team or league
- Demonstrated experience working directly with business stakeholders to identify and solve business problems
- Strong business acumen with the ability to understand business objectives and translate them into analytics opportunities
- Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience working with large datasets
- Experience with Python/Pandas or a similar analytics programming language
- Strong presentation, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments and proactively identify opportunities
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