First Team Data Scientist — Football Performance & Recruitment

Manchester City Football Club; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Private healthcare

Dental cover

Annual discretionary bonus

Company pension and life assurance

Free on-site parking

Breakfast and lunch

Job summary

Manchester City Football Club is seeking a First Team Data Scientist to turn football data into actionable insights for recruitment, training, and match strategy. You will develop statistical and machine-learning models to deepen understanding of performance and inform planning across technical, tactical and physical areas.

Collaborating with data scientists and multidisciplinary teams, you will present findings to both technical and non-technical audiences and manage your work against planned

Qualifications

• Masters or equivalent in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science or related subject.
• Experience designing and training complex statistical models.
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis and model development.
• Experience working with structured and unstructured data sources, including spatio-temporal data.
• Clear and effective communication skills, including the ability to present technical findings to non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to collaborate with other data scientists and across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Research and build data science solutions that inform performance and recruitment decisions.
• Turn complex information into clear, useful insight for practitioners and decision-makers.
• Develop statistical and machine-learning models to deepen understanding of performance and recruitment outcomes.
• Explore patterns, test ideas and make predictions to inform training and match strategies.
• Communicate findings to technical and non-technical audiences and work with multidisciplinary teams to deliver projects.

Skills

Statistical modeling

Python for data analysis

Structured and unstructured data

Communication to non-technical aud.

Collaboration with data scientists and

Education

Masters or equivalent in quantitative discipline

Tools

Python

Job description

Manchester City Football Club is seeking a First Team Data Scientist to turn football data into actionable insights for recruitment, training, and match strategy. You will develop statistical and machine-learning models to deepen understanding of performance and inform planning across technical, tactical and physical areas.

Collaborating with data scientists and multidisciplinary teams, you will present findings to both technical and non-technical audiences and manage your work against planned