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1st Team Data Scientist
Mid Level
Manchester, United Kingdom
in office
Full time
Job description
About the Role
Based in Manchester, this permanent role sits within Manchester City's 1st Team Analysis department and works with the Football Intelligence Data team to turn football data into better decisions. The postholder develops models and insights that inform recruitment, training and match strategy, and helps football practitioners understand what it takes to perform at the highest level. The role involves working alongside data scientists, analysts and colleagues across multidisciplinary teams, and managing work against agreed plans to contribute to shared project outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Research and build data science solutions that help football practitioners and decision-makers answer important questions about performance and recruitment.
- Turn complex information into clear, useful insight that supports the way teams prepare, perform and develop.
- Develop statistical and machine-learning models that deepen understanding of what it takes to perform.
- Contribute to quantitative approaches across technical, tactical and physical areas of football.
- Explore patterns and trends, identify meaningful features, test ideas and make predictions that inform training programmes and match strategies.
- Communicate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts and colleagues across multidisciplinary teams.
- Manage work against agreed plans and contribute to shared project outcomes.
- Bring curiosity, imagination and practical problem-solving to new football performance challenges.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- A Masters degree or equivalent industry experience in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science or a 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.
Benefits & Perks
- 26 days' annual leave plus a day off for your birthday.
- Private healthcare and dental cover.
- Annual discretionary bonus.
- Access to a Health Cash Plan.
- Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 GP support.
- Company pension and life assurance.
- Free on-site parking for Manchester-based employees.
- Complimentary breakfast and lunch for Manchester-based employees.
- Access to a range of sports and leisure clubs for Manchester-based employees.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Give As You Earn.
- Discounted match tickets.
The Application Process
Applications are submitted via the club's careers site, and candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. All applicants are screened and candidates are selected whose skills and experience appear to meet the club's needs, with only those selected for interview contacted. The club works with a select group of agency partners and does not accept unsolicited applications; CVs submitted without prior agreement are treated as a direct application. Reasonable adjustments and support are available on request throughout the process.
- Submit an application via the club's careers site.
- Initial screening of all applications against the needs of the role.
- Interview for candidates selected following screening.
- Employment is subject to the provision of proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
- All UK-based roles are subject to a DBS check (basic, standard or enhanced depending on the role and responsibilities) upon commencing employment.
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