Nielsen Sports Data Analyst

Job description

Date: Sep 6, 2018

Location: Charlotte, NC, US

Company: Nielsen

Nielsen Sports Data Analyst - 24978

Analytics - USA Charlotte, North Carolina

Nielsen Sports Data Analyst

Analytics - Charlotte, North Carolina

Nielsen Sports is a global leader in the Sports Marketing industry, providing measurement, analytics and advice to help brands, sports teams, and rights holders propel the performance of their business. Our team is looking for an energetic individual looking to jump into the driver’s seat of our Motorsports analytics and work with some of the fastest leagues in the sports business.

As a Data Analyst, you will play a critical role in delivering first-class evaluations and drawing insights across sponsorship and audience measurement. Similar to the technical precision and timeliness required in the sport, this position will be tasked with transforming and evaluating data to support client decision making in an accurate and efficient manner.

Responsibilities:

• Develop mastery of propriety Nielsen tools and metrics, which you will use to help evaluate data to solve our client’s most pressing business questions

• Build multidimensional data sets used to value sponsorships across different media platforms

• Create and manage league sponsorship files used for client reporting, benchmarking and, trends

• Produce reports across different client types, helping to identify, analyze, and interpret key performance measures

• Collaborate with team members in the design and execution of sports industry projects and predictive studies through critical thinking and problem solving

• Communicate internally with client service account team regarding project requirements, interpretation of data, and the development of recommendations that will be presented to clients and used by industry leaders to set strategy

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Market Research, or related field

• 0-2 years’ experience

• Possess naturally curious mindset, enthusiasm working with data, strong adaptability, and sense of accountability

• Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Excel, including use of formula writing, logic statements, pivot tables, index/lookups, and VBA

• Demonstrated competency in data analysis

• Excellent communication skills and ability to simplify data and complex ideas

• Knowledge of and interest in the US sports and entertainment landscape is desired

About Nielsen:

Nielsen N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy. Nielsen’s Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services across all devices where content — video, audio, and text — is consumed. The Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industry’s only global view of retail performance measurement.

By integrating information from its Watch and Buy segments and other data sources, Nielsen provides its clients with both world-class measurement as well as analytics that help improve performance. Nielsen, an S&P 500 company, has operations in over 100 countries that cover more than 90 percent of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com

Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.