Team Lead, Data Analytics at Making of Champions Limited

Making of Champions Limited is a Sports Media & Management Company that was set up to elevate the profile and performance of Sports in Nigeria and the rest of Africa, and is dedicated to maximising the potential that sports has to bring the country, and the continent on a whole, together.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Lead, Data Analytics

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time

Responsibilities

• Manage the Collection of Athlete/Team registration and results data from MoC and other competitions, exporting from/importing to various types of data collection, analysis and display software, and ensuring accuracy of data by verifying, filtering and cleaning data to identify errors.
• Support management in decision making by generating actionable insights from various business, athletes and competitions data.
• Supervise the analysis and manipulation of Athlete and Team results data to create various performance rankings and records to be published during and/or after MoC and other competitions.
• Build a database of Athlete and Team registration and results data from MoC Competitions to be maintained annually and displayed in various forms on MoC’s website and social media; create interactive online dashboards which fans can engage with to conduct their own analysis.
• Analyze and interpret global Athletics data, statistics and records, to provide context and generate meaningful and timely insights from athlete performance data at MoC Competition.
• Manage the identification, analysis and interpretation of trends in large data sets and work collaboratively with MoC Sports Media & Management teams on all tasks and decision making related to data analysis and display.
• Provide training, guidance and mentorship to members of the data team and other relevant teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in any discipline (particularly any demonstrating experience in advanced data analytics, e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, etc)
• 5-7 years’ experience in data analysis and modelling, database querying, presentation and building analytics reports, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required; Experience with data reporting and visualization tools (e.g. Power BI) and database management tools (e.g. SQL server) advantageous but not required.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, clean, organize, and analyze large amounts of data with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Experience working in sports media and/or data analytics, and/or a demonstrated passion or interest in Sports Event Management beneficial but not required.
• Prior Experience and interest in Athletics (Track & Field) would be highly advantageous
• Working knowledge of other Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Access)
• Ability to work effectively under time pressure, proactive with ability to generate ideas to boost data analysis and reporting; can pragmatically multi-task, troubleshoot and solve problems.

Application Closing Date
28th August, 2023.