Intern, Business Intelligence

The Company

Asia Football Group (AFG) is the exclusive commercial agency for the Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) competitions from 2023-2028. Our partnership with the AFC covers the commercial rights for all major AFC National Team and Club competitions, including the AFC Asian Cup, AFC Asian Qualifiers, AFC Women’s Asian Cup, AFC Women’s Olympic Qualifiers, AFC Champions League, AFC Cup as well as AFC youth and futsal competitions.

Driven by a shared passion and dedication to Asian football, our industry experts have a wealth of experience in global, regional, and local football marketing, and are devoted to delivering exciting and engaging Asian football content to fans on ground, on screen, and online. Working closely with the AFC and its stakeholders, Asia Football Group strives for the success and growth of Asian football, as well as redefining Asian football’s commercial standing within global football by addressing the shared business objectives of the AFC, its sponsors and media partners with solutions derived from optimising fan engagement and digitally driven innovations.

The Role

We are looking for a passionate intern with career aspirations of working in a sports or entertainment sales and marketing environment. Your genuine passion, willingness to take on challenges proactively, and willingness to learn are vital to making you a great match for this role. Attitude is key!

This position will be supporting the BI team with the day-to-day data and research support in three areas: 

Key Responsibilities

• Data management
  
  
  
  • Operate, under guidance, various existing syndicated data services and data platforms (to extract required data to various internal functions
  
  
  • Support in data cleaning, sanity check and consolidation from various data sources into master database and the maintenance of it
  
  
  
  


• Data analysis
  
  
  
  • Support in basic data analysis under guidance to produce takeaway and insights for stakeholders.
  
  
  • Build automation and visualization for data presentation
  
  
  
  


• Market research
  
  
  
  • Conduct market and industry research to support sales, strategy, and rights development initiatives
  
  
  
  

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• University graduate with bachelor's degree in data science, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related discipline.


• Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills


• Attention to details and ability to interpret data are a must


• Experience in using statistic, database management, social media and analytic tools (e.g. Power BI, R, Looker Studio, Google Analytics...), and knowledge in Python are an advantage   


• Thrives on working as part of an enthusiastic and energetic team, and embraces learning new skills and tools to drive further thinking


• Passion for data and sports business


• Nice-to-have: storytelling skills and knowledge in Asian football

Duration

6 months from start date

Interested parties please apply with your application letter, resume, current and expected salary, and availability by clicking "Apply " 

Deadline of application:

Applicants who are not invited for interviews within 6 weeks may consider their applications unsuccessful. Personal data collected will be treated strictly confidential and be used for the purpose of recruitment only. All collected information will be kept on our files for 12 months.