Manager, Amateur Scouting at Boston Red Sox
Boston, MA
About the Job
DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW:
The Amateur Domestic Scouting department is primarily responsible for improving organizational talent through the Rule IV Draft and UDFA signing process. The Amateur Domestic Scouting department strives to be best in class at identifying, evaluating, and valuing amateur baseball talent through a relentless commitment to our process and our people. This includes, but is not limited to creating well-rounded scouting practices, building relationships, leveraging R&D for process support, developing strong staff education frameworks, and establishing sound decision-making processes.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
This is an office-based role that operates in close collaboration with department leadership to drive process improvement while providing support across all areas of the Amateur Scouting operation. As part of this role, support will be required in the following areas: player analysis and evaluation, administration, data collection, and quality control. Additionally, the role helps manage Associate support for Amateur Scouting, as well as the greater Baseball Operations department.
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.
In addition to the above requirements, all roles within Baseball Operations are expected to effectively demonstrate our universal competencies related to problem solving, teamwork, clarity of communication, and time management, along with embodying our culture of honesty, humility, relentlessness, and commitment to DEIB.
