Business Strategy Analyst

This is a Full Time Job


The St. Louis Cardinals are seeking candidates for our Business Strategy Analyst position. The Business Strategy & Analytics department works cross-functionally with our Marketing, Ticketing, Production, and Corporate Partnerships teams to optimize revenue, enhance brand engagement, and support other long-term strategic initiatives. This position conducts industry research analyzes data and trends, and develops strategic recommendations aimed at enhancing revenue growth, fan engagement, and business innovation.

Job Duties:
• Strategic Planning & Execution: Collaborate with department leadership to scope strategic initiatives and develop long-term strategic plans. Support the execution of these initiatives to enhance the organization's revenue performance, operational efficiencies, fan experience, etc.
• Strategic Recommendations: Generate actionable recommendations borne in data-driven insight to inform key business decisions. Example projects may include ticket product development, fan-centric process design, or new digital engagements.
• Storytelling & Executive Communications: Translate research and analysis into easy-to-follow stories with clear takeaways and actions. Synthesize large amounts of information into briefings or presentations for management and executive-level leaders.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with internal stakeholders across departments to set long-term organizational vision and develop integrated strategic plans.
• Change Management: Support implementation of recommendations, new processes, and programs with impacted stakeholders. Example projects include business process redesign efforts, new technology implementations, or facilitating operating model changes.
• Data Analysis & Insight Generation: Work closely with BI / Analytics team to collect, clean, and analyze internal data and drive data-centric discussions and decisions across the organization. Develop presentation materials with a strong ability to synthesize information into clear, impactful, and measurable business recommendations.
• Hypothesis Testing: Work with Club and industry data to formulate and test hypotheses, developing critical business insights with a strong command of details and nuances.
• Relationship Building: Build strong interpersonal relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, league office contacts, and industry peers.

Education/Experience Required:
• Bachelor's degree in business administration, strategy, management, finance, economics, business analytics, or related field (completed by May 2025 or earlier)
• Intellectual curiosity and voracious appetite to learn
• Excellent written and oral communication / presenting skills
• Experience explaining technical data or strategic topics to nontechnical stakeholders
• Deep knowledge of decomposing intricate or unclear business problems, building solutions, and creating recommendations
• Strong data analysis & insight generation skills (data collection and cleaning, survey development, data visualization, summary of findings, etc.)
• Experience translating complex data and insights into easy-to-digest presentation materials
• Familiarity with project planning, initiative prioritization, and roadmap development
• Ability to initiate tasks independently and deliver multiple concurrent projects involving stakeholders from across the organization
• Understanding of KPI / OKR development (ex. metric design, benchmarking)
• Ability to create work products using Microsoft Office Suite such as PowerPoint decks, Excel models, or other visual and written deliverables
• Strong leadership skills
• Passion for sports and/or baseball

Education/Experience Preferred:
• 1-3 years of work experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, business analytics, or similar strategic or data-driven roles
• Experience supporting long-term vision setting, strategic planning efforts, execution of strategic initiatives, etc.
• Proficiency in communicating with and presenting to executive-level stakeholders
• Experience with design thinking and/or workshop facilitation
• Familiarity with organizational design or operating model development
• Formal or informal experience leading small teams
• Understanding of Agile/SAFe
• Familiarity with business process design & redesign techniques
• Exposure to building digital and/or mobile strategies
• Experience with a sports franchise, specifically in Strategy and/or Analytics function