Acquisition Specialist
Baseball Operations / Full-time / Distant
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Acquisition Specialist will play an essential function in enhancing the Scouting course of by stay and video evaluations, leveraging knowledge to refine valuation strategies, and supporting management in decision-making efforts. The function calls for experience in participant evaluation, proficiency with analytical instruments, and a sound grasp of valuation frameworks. This particular person will seek the advice of with key contributors throughout a number of departments, collaborating with Scouting management, Analytics, and Programs groups, to drive steady enhancements in data, evaluations, valuations, and decision-making processes, finally enhancing the general effectivity and effectiveness of the Beginner Home Scouting operation.
The Acquisition Specialist should be positioned on the East Coast and can work remotely.
DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW:
The Beginner Home Scouting division is primarily chargeable for enhancing organizational expertise by the Rule IV Draft and UDFA signing course of. The Beginner Home Scouting division strives to be finest in school at figuring out, evaluating, and valuing newbie baseball expertise by a relentless dedication to our course of and our folks. This contains, however just isn’t restricted to creating well-rounded scouting practices, constructing relationships, leveraging R&D for course of help, creating sturdy workers training frameworks, and establishing sound decision-making processes.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Take part within the implementation and enchancment of processes throughout a number of areas of the acquisition operation, specializing in developments in workflow, evaluative strategies, decision-making help, and workers improvement.
- Make the most of analytical instruments to determine and prioritize prospects that require additional evaluation to make sure high-confidence and completeness of knowledge, evaluations, and valuations.
- Leverage analytical instruments and fashions to offer QC/QA suggestions and determine areas for additional analysis and improvement.
- Make knowledgeable suggestions on valuation approaches and apply valuation outputs to decision-making processes.
- Associate with Programs and Analytics groups to develop, refine, and optimize scouting instruments.
- Consider a excessive quantity of gamers utilizing video evaluation and choose live-look targets, integrating all obtainable knowledge for complete analysis.
COMPETENCIES:
- Skill to work together deeply with predictive modeling teams and analytical outputs to combine and apply to decision-making processes.
- Command of valuation frameworks and ideas, and the power to collaborate inter-departmentally to iterate and enhance utilized valuation methodologies.
- Expertise with and aptitude for participant evaluation and analysis (subjective and goal) and a data of baseball markets throughout acquisition areas, transactional/operational areas, and different domains
- Skill to use analysis and valuation experience within the respective planning and decision-making processes.
- A powerful understanding of and talent to narrate to the calls for, challenges, and desires of each subject and workplace workers
- Command of end-to-end processes that energy selections and talent to contribute to enhancements; skill to design efficient and environment friendly processes throughout the Beginner Home Scouting division and inter-departmentally, and to behave as a powerful useful resource for management within the planning and execution of departmental priorities.
- Skill to attach with and respect folks from completely different backgrounds and cultures, together with gamers, households, coaches, brokers, trainers, and others.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- Proficiency with SQL is most well-liked.
Along with the above necessities, all roles inside Baseball Operations are anticipated to successfully display our common competencies associated to drawback fixing, teamwork, readability of communication, and time administration, together with embodying our tradition of honesty, humility, relentlessness, and dedication to DEIB.
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