Intern, Business Intelligence

The Company 

Asia Football Group (AFG) is the exclusive commercial agency for the Asian Football Confederation's (AFC) competitions from 2023-2028. AFG's partnership with the AFC covers the commercial rights for all major AFC National Team and Club competitions, including the AFC Asian Cup™, AFC Asian Qualifiers™, AFC Women's Asian Cup™, AFC Women's Olympic Qualifiers, AFC Champions League Elite™, AFC Women's Champions League™, and AFC Champions League Two™ as well as AFC youth and futsal competitions. 

Driven by a shared passion and dedication to Asian football, our industry experts have a wealth of experience in global, regional, and local football marketing, and are devoted to delivering exciting and engaging Asian football content to fans on ground, on screen, and online. Working closely with the AFC and its stakeholders, Asia Football Group strives for the success and growth of Asian football, as well as redefining Asian football’s commercial standing within global football by addressing the shared business objectives of the AFC, its sponsors and media partners with solutions derived from optimising fan engagement and digitally driven innovations. 

The Role 

We are looking for a passionate Business Intelligence Intern with career aspirations in a sports or entertainment sales and marketing environment. A proactive mindset, strong attention to detail, and willingness to take ownership are critical to success in this role. Attitude is key. 

This is a hands on role, supporting the BI team across data management, analysis, visualization, and research. The intern is expected to produce accurate data outputs, analysis, and presentation materials using real business datasets and a range of in house and third party tools. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Data management   

• • Operate, under guidance, various existing syndicated data services and data platforms (to extract required data to various internal functions  

• • Support in data cleaning, sanity check and consolidation from various data sources into master database and the maintenance of it 

• Data analysis   

• • Support in basic data analysis under guidance to produce takeaway and insights for stakeholders.  

• • Build automation and visualization for data presentation 

• Market research   

• • Conduct market and industry research to support sales, strategy, and rights development initiatives   

Skills, Experience and Qualifications 

• University graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline 

• Strong attention to detail and solid ability to interpret data are a must 

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including experience in data consolidation, data analysis, and working with structured datasets 

• Strong PowerPoint skills, particularly in building clear charts, tables, and well‑structured presentation slides 

• Experience using statistical, database management, social media, and analytics tools (e.g. Power BI, R, Looker Studio, Google Analytics) 

• Knowledge of Python and/or SQL is an added value, particularly where it supports automation or more efficient data workflows 

• Thrives as part of an enthusiastic and energetic team, and is open to learning new skills and tools 

• Passion for data and the sports business 

• Storytelling skills and knowledge of Asian football are an advantage 

Duration  

6 months from start date 

Interested parties please apply with your application letter, resume, current and expected salary, and availability by clicking "Apply "  

Applicants who are not invited for interviews within 6 weeks may consider their applications unsuccessful. Personal data collected will be treated strictly confidential and be used for the purpose of recruitment only. All collected information will be kept on our files for 12 months.