Senior Business Analyst

At the forefront of media innovation, we power client decisions and deliver extraordinary results through powerful insights. Our talented workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement across diverse platforms and geographies.

Join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and impactful collaboration. Together, we champion your success as our shared ambition propels us forward.

Job Description:

In the highly competitive sports industry, effective marketing strategies are crucial for communicating offerings to diverse audiences and communities. We provide essential services to clients, helping them measure, analyze, and interpret their investments, and make sound strategic decisions.

As part of our International Consulting group, you will work closely with top-tier sports and entertainment rights holders, brands, agencies, and broadcasters globally. You will help clients find solutions to commercial challenges, leveraging your analytical skills and problem-solving expertise.

Our projects span commercial strategy, rights package creation, go-to-market strategies, event impact analysis, sponsorship evaluation, ROI modeling, and broadcast rights valuation. You will turn analysis results into compelling stories delivering meaningful insights and added value to our clients.

The role is based in Milano, offering opportunities to work from there or adopt a flexible hybrid mode.

• Independently analyzing information and presenting to clients with an experienced team.
• Members will be able to analyze data and turn it into compelling stories that deliver meaningful insights and added value to our clients.
• Work across different types of market research projects including single country / multi-country ad hoc / tracking / syndicated.
• Develop an understanding of our clients' challenges and needs, and the solutions that help them achieve their business objectives.
• Contribute to create trusted and long-term relationships with defined clients.
• Use existing project planning tools, project management and capacity planning tools, to implement and track your own projects.
• Working closely across all Nielsen Sports and external data sources to build compelling bespoke analysis which directly address the key strategic questions of our clients.
• Continuously expand your knowledge of our clients, the sports business landscape, and the media and advertising industry to provide the most effective solutions to our clients.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of our services and products by adopting and implementing automation of our processes and services.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Fluency in Italian and English (written and spoken)
• 4 years' experience as a strategy and/or management consultant at a top consulting firm or a top entity operating in the sport industry, delivering client analytical projects, using project management platforms and managing diverse stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office skills, particularly Powerpoint and Excel.
• Good competence using Business Intelligence tools/platforms, such as Power BI is a bonus.
• Good grounding in custom research principles, methodologies, statistical techniques.
• Previous experience of using Digital Analytics tools is preferable.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent in business administration, sports management, marketing or related fields.
• Strong understanding of the global media and sports ecosystem, how it is measured and how advertisers, media, platforms operate.

Benefits:

Work in a collaborative environment, develop new skills, and contribute to the company's growth. Enjoy a challenging and rewarding career in a rapidly evolving industry.

Relocate to Milano or work from anywhere while staying connected with colleagues through regular virtual meetings.

Enjoy flexibility and autonomy while meeting performance goals.