Manager, Amateur Scouting

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead, implement and improve processes across all areas of the scouting operation, focusing on advancements in workflow, evaluative methods, decision-making, and staff development.
• Drive the development and enhancement of the performance identification process.
• Collaborate with Analytics, Systems, and Baseball Strategy departments to identify and drive research opportunities that enhance player evaluation.
• Work alongside department leadership and partner departments to fully vet and comprehensively analyze all potential draft candidates.
• Work with all stakeholders within Amateur Scouting to optimize effectiveness and efficiency of scouting operations and analysis while own a workload of administrative tasks.
• Ensure high standards of quality, rigor, and timeliness of player-level data and efficient delivery and communication of high-value information.
• Evaluate amateur player targets across assigned areas of responsibility using a hybrid approach of live and video scouting as well as internal information sources.
• Power use internal systems and valuation materials. Oversee Associate, Amateur Scouting and their development.
• Designs, integrates, and continuously improves processes in alignment with our organizational KPI’s.

COMPETENCIES

• Ability to interact deeply with predictive modeling groups and analytical outputs to integrate and apply to decision-making processes.
• Command of valuation frameworks and principles, and the ability to collaborate inter-departmentally to iterate and improve applied valuation methodologies.
• Experience with and aptitude for player analysis and evaluation (subjective and objective) and a knowledge of baseball markets across acquisition spaces, transactional/operational areas, and other domains.
• Ability to apply evaluation and valuation expertise in the respective planning and decision-making processes.
• A strong understanding of and ability to relate to the demands, challenges, and needs of both field and office staff.
• Command of end-to-end processes that power decisions and ability to contribute to improvements; ability to design effective and efficient processes within the Amateur Domestic Scouting department and inter-departmentally, and to act as a strong resource for leadership in the planning and execution of departmental priorities.
• Ability to connect with and respect people from different backgrounds and cultures, including players, families, coaches, agents, trainers, and others.