Data Scientist

The Role

This is a unique opportunity to play a critical role in the valuation of global sports media and sponsorship assets. Working on a high-profile freelance assignment, you will help validate and strengthen predictive models that will directly inform commercial decisions across multiple major sports leagues.

Deliverables

• Review, audit, and reverse engineer existing Excel-based predictive valuation models.
• Validate assumptions, methodologies, and calculations across sponsorship, media rights, virtual advertising, and LED inventory valuations.
• Sense check models built using multiple commercial and audience-related variables to ensure they are robust and commercially credible.
• Translate audience, viewership, CPM, and distribution data into clear valuation insights and commercial recommendations.
• Produce board-level insights and support strategic decision-making for sports media and sponsorship programmes.
• Communicate complex modelling logic and assumptions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills & Experience

• Strong experience within sports media, sponsorship valuation, broadcast economics, or a closely related commercial media environment.
• Deep understanding of media inventory, CPM-based valuation frameworks, audience measurement, media rights, and advertising ecosystems.
• Working knowledge of virtual advertising and LED sponsorship inventory within sports broadcasting environments.
• Advanced Excel modelling capability, including scenario modelling, sensitivity analysis, and financial valuation frameworks.
• Experience reviewing, auditing, and improving complex predictive models.
• Ability to create commercially meaningful insights from large datasets and modelling outputs.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to explain modelling assumptions and recommendations to executive audiences.
• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced project environment with immediate deliverables.