Football Insights Architect

Manchester City Football Club; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading football organization in Abu Dhabi seeks an analytical professional to support the Football Insights Platform and provide insights to enhance decision-making for football practices. The ideal candidate should have experience in elite football environments, strong skills in Tableau, and the ability to communicate data effectively. This role offers the opportunity to work in a global team within a dynamic and innovative industry.

Qualifications

• Evidence of working with, deriving & communicating actionable insights from football data.
• Confidence in being the ‘voice of the data’ and operate independently with oversight.
• Evidence of building, maintaining and developing analytical products.

Responsibilities

• Administer the Football Insights Platform and provide analytical support.
• Engage with football practitioners to promote the use of analytics.
• Provide analytical reviews and recommendations for partner clubs.

Skills

Experience in elite football environment

Expertise in Tableau Server

Ability to derive actionable insights from football data

Agile working style

Creative problem-solving

Ability to communicate data insights effectively

Working in a global team

Building analytical products

Multiple languages spoken

Job description

Your Impact

• Play a key role in the administration of our proprietary Football Insights Platform, maintaining content enabling the provision of analytical insights across City Football Group.
• Providing on-site analytical support to Al-Jazira Club through education, enablement & delivery of insights for our football practitioners to make better decisions, faster by reducing time to insight.
• Provide analytical reviews/support of CFG partner clubs from a football perspective; providing recommendations for performance optimisation.
• Engaging with our football practitioners to effectively communicate, evangelise and promote tools on our proprietary Football Insights Platform, showcasing the functionality & application to drive better questions.
• Play a key role in developing our intelligence, processes and engagement across CFG Partners, as well as having a positive impact in driving excellence across the group.

What We Are Looking For

• Preferably, someone who has experience working within an elite football environment.
• Very strong expertise in administrating, maintaining and managing content on Tableau Server.
• Evidence working with, deriving & clearly communicating actionable insights from football data, either as a hobby or within previous employment.
• Ability to work in an agile manner suited to the innovative & fast-paced nature of the football industry.
• Creative problem solver with the drive and discipline to learn & develop new skills.
• Evidence evangelising, promoting and championing the usage of analytics, tools and/or products within an organisation.
• Confidence in being the ‘voice of the data’ and operate independently with oversight from the Head of Football Insights.
• Evidence of working within a global team independently.
• Evidence of building, maintaining and developing beautifully displayed analytical products or tools.
• Evidence designing, building and curating analytically ready data sources.
• The ability to speak multiple languages (i.e. English, Spanish, Arabic)
• We regularly review applications and reserve the right to close an advert early if we identify suitable candidates. To avoid disappointment, please submit your application as soon as possible.

City Football Group promotes equal opportunities in employment and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We will screen all applicants and select candidates whose skills and experience seem to meet our needs. We will carefully consider your application during the initial screening and will contact you only if you are selected for an interview.

Employment is subject to the provision of proof of eligibility to work in the UAE.

Due to our safeguarding promise, all UK based CFG roles will be subject to a DBS check upon commencing employment with us. This will be either a basic, standard or enhanced check depending on the job role and responsibilities.

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