Acquisition Specialist
Location: Distant
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Acquisition Specialist will play an vital function in enhancing the Scouting course of via 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 Methods groups, to drive steady enhancements in data, evaluations, valuations, and decision-making processes, finally enhancing the general effectivity and effectiveness of the Newbie or Professional Scouting operation.
The Acquisition Specialist is a distant function. We’ve openings on each the Newbie Home Scouting and Professional Scouting groups. Candidates can have an opportunity to state their choice however should not assured placement on their most well-liked crew.
DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW(S):
The Newbie Home Scouting division is primarily answerable for enhancing organizational expertise via the Rule IV Draft and UDFA signing course of. The Newbie Home Scouting division strives to be greatest at school at figuring out, evaluating, and valuing newbie baseball expertise via 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, growing sturdy workers schooling frameworks, and establishing sound decision-making processes.
The Professional Scouting division is answerable for analysis, data synthesis, valuation evaluation, and decision-making suggestions for participant acquisitions throughout all skilled leagues, together with: Main & Minor Leagues, Unbiased Leagues, and Skilled Winter Leagues. The division collaborates throughout baseball ops domains to leverage organizational data and assist drive selections {of professional} gamers throughout all acquisitions avenues.
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 establish and prioritize prospects that require additional evaluation to make sure high-confidence and completeness of data, evaluations, and valuations.
- Leverage analytical instruments and fashions to offer QC/QA suggestions and establish areas for additional analysis and improvement.
- Make knowledgeable suggestions on valuation approaches and apply valuation outputs to decision-making processes.
- Accomplice with Methods 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:
- Means 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
- Means 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 discipline and workplace workers
- Command of end-to-end processes that energy selections and talent to contribute to enhancements; capability to design efficient and environment friendly processes throughout the Newbie Home Scouting or Professional Scouting division and inter-departmentally, and to behave as a robust useful resource for management within the planning and execution of departmental priorities.
- Means to attach with and respect folks from totally different backgrounds and cultures, together with gamers, households, coaches, brokers, trainers, and others.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Along with the above necessities, all roles inside Baseball Operations are anticipated to successfully exhibit our common competencies associated to downside 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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