Company Overview

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans, a global partner network with over 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, teams, players associations, athletes, celebrities, colleges, and college conferences, and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail business stores. 

As a market leader with more than 18,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.

The Manager, Data Analytics will be responsible for developing and implementing an enterprise-wide data strategy, ensuring data quality, promoting data governance and making and participating in the management of our data infrastructure. This role will report directly to the Senior Director, ERP and work closely with the Chief Information Officer and other senior leaders across the organization.

They will partner with the business to inventory current state data landscape (e.g., master data, enterprise/oracle transaction data, governance, data lineage, data transformation, data issues, etc. ) and identify opportunities optimize at the current source or as part of the future state migration (Fusion, Digital Asset Management). They will work with the business units to develop a shared, cohesive vision and prioritized roadmap for enterprise data optimization. This role will be a direct report to the Senior Director, ERP, and work closely with the Collectibles Chief Information Officer and will be expected to bring deep data management/governance skills, especially in the ERP and manufacturing space, in addition to a strong customer service orientation and focus on delivering business value and outcomes.

This position will manage critical data efforts as we transform from EBS to Oracle Fusion and modernize other legacy offerings such as card factory, that support our manufacturing capabilities. The role will be focused on operational data – master data, transaction data and data hierarchies that when coupled with process optimization efforts – will facilitate improved raw data for the data analytics and insights teams. They will work closely with the operations team as well as the data analytics/insights and various engineering teams to ensure a holistic enterprise data plan and roadmap to ultimately support the delivery of exceptional customer insights and experience – most immediately understanding data capabilities, democratizing data to enable data driven decisions across all segments of the business, confirming current architectural direction, developing leading solutions and creating a close partnership with the business stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• The Manager will be expected to foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement – particularly with respect to master data (FCM, HCM, SCM)
• Develop and implement an enterprise-wide data strategy that aligns with Fanatics Collectibles strategic goals, leveraging prior experience from similar roles
• Establish and enforce data governance policies, including data standards, quality, and privacy to serve all components of the collectibles ecosystems
• Transform current data governance and quality practices with empathy for the teams undergoing monumental change and transformation
• Work closely with others to implement data standards, frameworks and best practices for data collection, storage, integration and analysis
• Collaborate with cross functional teams, to identify data requirements and drive master/enterprise data cleanup and optimization efforts
• Conduct thorough data reconciliation to ensure accuracy and consistency across systems.
• Serve as a bridge between technical and business teams, effectively communicating data-related needs and solutions.
• Manage data migration projects, including planning, execution, and validation.
• Lead data conversion efforts, ensuring smooth and efficient transition of data into critical business systems.
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and data tools to enhance data capabilities and drive innovation
• Monitor data quality, identify data issues and implement corrective measures
• Stay abreast of industry trends, advancements and regulatory changes to enterprise data management
• Collaborate with IT to implement new technologies and improve master data infrastructure. Ensure compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and standards related to data handling and privacy.
• Communicate the value of data to stakeholders and promote a data-driven culture within Fanatics Collectibles.
• Manage relationships with third-party data vendors, ensuring they meet our needs and comply with all relevant regulations.

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer engineering, or related field of study.
• Prior experience implementing/supporting complex data engineering, analytics and science functions preferred.
• Working knowledge of network architecture, engineering and network technologies required
• A strong business acumen and ability to maintain budgetary control.
• Proven and demonstrated leadership, communication, organization, and effective management of technology solutions.
• Possess excellent interpersonal, change management and problem-solving skills combined with demonstrated team management capabilities.
• 5 years’ experience working with enterprise data, especially ERP, manufacturing and sales data.
• Experience with Oracle Fusion Implementations, especially data reconciliation, migration, and conversion a plus.
• Proven experience in a managerial role focused on enterprise data management, data governance and data strategy. Work in a regulated environment a plus.
• Strong knowledge of data management practices and principles, including data architecture, data modeling, data integration and data quality.
• Experience with Oracle/SQL and/or PL/SQL, with a strong ability to write and optimize queries a plus
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Rigorous attention to detail and highly organized, but able to operate with ease at all levels (from strategy to execution).
• Deep empathy for customer experience – always analyzing and assessing from the customers’ viewpoint
• Authentic manager who invests in nurturing potential, as well as proven talent. Conscious and supportive of diversity & inclusion, and the value they bring to customers, business and the team.
• Collaborative, while firm on goals and driving the extended team toward actions (and deadlines) to achieve them.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to translate business requirements into data strategies and solutions across the organization, with the ability to summarize large amounts of data from various inputs
• Strategic thinker with proven ability to operationalize the strategy. Strong problem-solving and execution skills.
• Clear and optimistic vision for what can be. Proven ability to execute with urgency and pragmatism in the current environment
• High curiosity – proactively seeking to learn more and ‘connect the dots’ for better solutions.
• Affinity toward technology as a customer experience enabler.

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Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.

Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics’ fair labor practices.

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