Football Transactions Manager

City Football Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Football Transactions Manager to lead strategic operations across its global portfolio. This role involves managing the end-to-end transaction process, providing expert advice to senior stakeholders, and developing tailored strategies for player trading. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in football operations, excellent negotiation skills, and the ability to engage with C-level executives. Join a forward-thinking organization that empowers better lives through football and offers a supportive environment for professional growth.

Benefits

26 days annual leave

Private healthcare

Annual discretionary bonus

Lifestyle discounts

Birthday off

Qualifications

• Experienced professional in football operations or management consulting.
• High level experience engaging with C-level executives.
• Advanced knowledge of the football transaction landscape.

Responsibilities

• Manage football transaction processes across CFG clubs.
• Provide strategic advice to Sporting Directors and CEOs.
• Build strong relationships with agencies and clubs globally.

Skills

Football Negotiations

Strategic Business Partnering

Sales Planning

Financial Budgeting

Contract Structuring

Presentation Skills

Analytical Mindset

Conflict Resolution

Education

Degree in Business

Formal Qualification in Finance

Formal Qualification in Legal

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

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Talent Acquisition Executive at City Football Group

Location: Manchester, GB

Opening Date: 28 Apr 2025

Full Time / Part Time: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date of Applications - 16/05/2025

Our Story

Established in 2013, City Football Group is the world’s leading private owner and operator of football clubs, with total or partial ownership of twelve clubs across the world. City Football Group also invests in other football related businesses and serves as a global commercial platform for our partners, whilst fulfilling our purpose of empowering better lives through football on a local and global scale, consistent with what “City” football has meant to people for over a century.

Our Winning Team

Our purpose is to empower better lives through football. We are proud of the role City Football Group clubs play in their localities, delivering positive economic, social and environmental impact through our operations and through programmes and activities that bring about meaningful, lasting change.

We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic individual to lead the successful delivery of football transactions across our Group, overseeing the end-to-end transaction operations for our Americas portfolio of clubs.

As a key business partner, you will work closely with senior club stakeholders to provide expert advice, governance policies, and negotiation strategies. In this role, you will advise CFG Sporting Directors and various business functions, influence negotiation strategies with clubs, players, and agents, and lead multi-disciplinary efforts to develop tailored transaction strategies for specific market territories. Additionally, you will provide comprehensive insights and strategic recommendations to the CFG Leadership Team on player trading matters.

This is Your City

As part of our team, you will be entitled to 26 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, private healthcare and a simply health cash plan, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts.

Your Impact

• Manage and deliver the football transaction process liaising with key senior stakeholders at relevant CFG clubs
• Embed and implement CFG Player Trading principles across relevant CFG clubs, ensuring consistent and transparent practice, aligned to global and regional regulatory guidelines, throughout the end-to-end transaction process.
• Provide strategic business partnering and advice to relevant CFG club Sporting Directors and CEOs for all player trading activity. CFG Template
• Build and maintain strong external relationships with agencies and clubs globally, applying expert judgement to pro-actively identify player trading, pathway, value creation and opportunities for CFG clubs.
• Inform key stakeholders of emerging business practice and processes to ensure relevant CFG club football operations departments remain innovative and evolve with industry trends
• Create, develop and manage the execution of organisational and commercial strategies to manage and deliver football transactions across the Group more efficiently
• Contribute to the planning, delivery & management of Group Football transactions forums, meetings & reviews

What we are looking for

• Experienced professional in either the sporting, management consulting, football operations, or strategic commercial background.
• Degree in a business-related field, formal qualification in business, finance, and/or legal.
• High level experience engaging and negotiating with C-level executives.
• Knowledge and experience in sales planning, business modelling, football negotiations, contract structuring, and financial budgeting.
• High level presentation experience with internal and external clients.
• Robust experience in Microsoft Office, particularly in excel and power-point.
• Strategic, analytical mindset
• Advanced knowledge of the football transaction landscape, previous experience working with clubs, agencies, players worldwide.
• Strong use of initiative and able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Proven ability to address and resolve conflict effectively and efficiently

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 UK.

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Consulting, Finance, and General Business

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