Analyst, Team Business Operations

Overview

About LIV Golf

Now in its fifth season, the LIV Golf League features 13 teams competing for both an Individual and Team title at premier golf courses across the world. As the first truly global golf League, LIV Golf is constantly innovating to set a new standard in sport and redefine the fan experience through the lens of music, culture, and entertainment, while growing the game of golf for a new era of players and fans around the world. Headquartered in New York and London, the League holds events in cities across Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Africa, with broadcasts reaching nearly 900 million households in more than 200 international markets and territories.

LIV Golf was designed to expand the sport on a global level, bring new audiences to the game, create new value within the golfing ecosystem, and enhance the game’s societal impact far beyond the course through the League’s Impact & Sustainability efforts. In 2022, LIV Golf launched The International Series, which features 10 elevated events in world-class destinations. Sanctioned by the Asian Tour, these events offer a pathway for leading professional and amateur golfers from around the world into the LIV Golf League and the Majors.

Role Objectives

The Analyst, Team Business Operations will support Team Business Operations’ Senior Leadership Team in the development of growth strategies that drive high-level priorities for the thirteen team franchises. You will be part of a team responsible for investigating the most important enterprise and functional business questions for our team that explore new revenue and growth horizons, identify sources of competitive advantage, and strengthen LIV Golf’s position within the golf ecosystem. You will enable cross-functional partnership around critical business questions and support our team’s quarterly business planning and annual board cycles. Reporting to the SVP Team Business Operations and Development, you will have multiple stakeholders across this role including, Heads of Department for Strategy and Finance, peers in Finance, Insights, Legal and Corporate strategy, and Team staff and general managers. This role is truly central to our strategic growth as Team Business Operations. You will be instrumental in shaping the future of our league.

You Will

• Lead work aligned to the thirteen Team’s new business ventures, including but not limited to licensing initiatives, merchandise initiatives and joint ventures across the globe, from initial analysis and recommendation through tracking and refinement.
• Direct and execute analysis and due diligence for these new business ventures, distilling complex information and weighing multiple inputs to ultimately lead to actionable recommendations.
• Drive team equity sales initiatives by leading analysis and coordinating equity sales materials across LIV, team stakeholders, potential investors and banking partners.
• Evaluate and model expansion opportunities for team businesses, including new team formation and market entry.
• Partner across the league with insights, analytics, strategy and player relations team to develop and support player strategy end-to-end from recruitment and talent decisions, competitive analysis and financial roster decisions and return on investment.
• Prepare and present detailed reports and analyses for the Team Business Operations, the LIV board and the Team franchises related to growing franchise value, including sponsorship and salesforce dashboards with the commercial team and monthly comparison reports with the insights and communications teams.
• Track and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) for all team business operation initiatives and lead the communication of progress against those KPIs across the business.

Required Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in investment banking, corporate development or at a top-tier consulting firm.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, or training.
• MBA or other relevant post-graduate qualification would be advantageous.
• Sports industry expertise is a plus.
• Track record of independently driving cross-functional strategic projects from end to end.
• Ability to quickly come up to speed on new topics and rapidly identify opportunities.
• Experience creating and implementing new processes and ways of working.
• Ability to connect the dots across topics and workstreams in a cross-functional, global, matrix environment.
• Strong data analysis and financial modeling skills in Excel.
• Excellent PowerPoint skills as a communication tool to drive understanding, persuade, and mobilize change.
• Salesforce is a plus as well as Figma training for presentations.
• Comfort balancing multiple projects at once, prioritising time and capacity accordingly.
• Bias towards action and comfortable working in ambiguous environments.
• Ability to work through complexity & adversity.
• Superior interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• A curious mind and growth-orientation.

LIV Golf is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on age, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, race, ethnicity, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations where we operate. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organisation, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeships. LIV Golf Investments makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

Compensation Range: $90K - $110K