Marketing Science & Strategy Associate (External Agency Employee)

Overview The NFL Marketing Strategy & Insights team serves as the voice and advocate of NFL fans, leveraging diverse data sources to generate actionable insights and inform League-wide business optimization. This Associate role sits within the Research & Consumer Insights function. It serves as a primary analyst supporting research across direct‑to‑consumer products, brand and consumer marketing campaigns, and live game viewership. The role requires both deep analytical expertise and the flexibility to contribute across multiple focus areas. Responsibilities include designing and executing research, gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data from a range of syndicated and proprietary sources to deliver insights for internal and external stakeholders. Responsibilities Support the planning, execution, and reporting of primary research projects for the NFL. Lead project management of research initiatives, including collaboration with internal stakeholders, management of third‑party vendors, and administration of research trackers, ensuring on‑time and on‑budget execution of multiple projects simultaneously. Create story‑driven reports from scratch that provide strategic insights to key stakeholders such as NFL Media, Marketing, Media Sales, Broadcasting, and others. Serve as research expert and voice of the fan to internal stakeholders and third‑party vendors, including study development, determining applicable research methodology, survey design, data weighting, etc. Learn and understand available research applications/tools to pull data accordingly (e.g., MarketSight, Sports Poll, YouGov, AceMetrix). Provide support across NFL Consumer Insights projects, ad‑hoc as needed, including custom research studies throughout the year. Analyze data and create the “story” and strategic direction of reports with minimal direction. Ensure bodies of research and insights formulation are best‑in‑class with respect to diversity, equity and inclusion practices. Required Qualifications 1‑3 years of prior experience required. Bachelor’s degree or higher in Market Research, Business, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Data & Analytics or a closely related discipline, equivalent professional work experience. Understanding of and ability to write quantitative surveys based on an agreed set of business questions and research objectives. Ability to synthesize both quantitative and qualitative and write concise, creative, and insightful reports, and effectively communicate research findings to a diverse business audience. Strong project management and relationship‑building skills and the ability to effectively work with cross‑functional project teams. Experience with a range of research methods preferred (e.g., segmentation, online surveys, ethnographies, one‑on‑one interviews, focus groups). Understanding of the application of various analytic techniques preferred (e.g., chi‑square, t‑tests, correlations, regression, factor analysis, cluster analysis, Max‑Diff, conjoint analysis). Analytical platform experience such as Microsoft Excel, SPSS, or Q. Salary / Pay Range

$30–$35 USD

Terms / Expected Hours of Work 40 Hours per week. This job posting is for a position with one of the NFL’s third‑party agency partners that provides services to the NFL. The individual selected for this role will be an employee of that third‑party agency and not the NFL. All compensation, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment are handled by the agency. The assignment to provide services to the NFL will be limited in duration but may be extended for an additional period by agreement between the NFL and the agency. We are committed to building an inclusive work environment that reflects our incredible fan base. We provide an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants without regard to status as protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws. #J-18808-Ljbffr The National Football League