First Team Data Scientist — Football Analytics

City Football Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days' annual leave

Birthday day off

Private healthcare

Dental cover

Annual discretionary bonus

Health Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Pension and life assurance

Free on-site parking

Breakfast and lunch

Cycle to work

Discounted match tickets

City+ subscription

Stadium tour discounts

Job summary

City Football Group seeks a 1st Team Data Scientist in Manchester to turn football data into better decisions. You will develop statistical and ML models to inform recruitment, training and match strategy, communicating findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

You will work with multidisciplinary teams to deliver practical insights and improve performance. You will join a department focused on performance analysis and football intelligence, contributing to quantitative approaches

Qualifications

• Masters or equivalent in a quantitative discipline (e.g., mathematics, statistics, physics, CS).
• Experience designing and training complex statistical models.
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis and model development.
• Experience with structured and unstructured data sources, including spatio-temporal data.
• Clear and effective communication skills for non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to collaborate with other data scientists and across teams.

Responsibilities

• Research and build data science solutions to answer performance and recruitment questions.
• Develop statistical and machine-learning models to inform training and match strategy.
• Turn complex data into clear, actionable insights for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts and multidisciplinary teams on projects.
• Manage work against plans and contribute to shared project outcomes.

Skills

Masters or equivalent in quantitative

Statistical models design/training

Python for data analysis

Structured and unstructured data incl.

Education

Masters or equivalent in quantitative discipline

Tools

Python

Job description

City Football Group seeks a 1st Team Data Scientist in Manchester to turn football data into better decisions. You will develop statistical and ML models to inform recruitment, training and match strategy, communicating findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

You will work with multidisciplinary teams to deliver practical insights and improve performance. You will join a department focused on performance analysis and football intelligence, contributing to quantitative approaches