Strategy & Ventures Manager

Location

Manchester | United Kingdom

Job description

Job Description

Location:  

Manchester, GB

Opening Date:  1 Mar 2024

Full Time / Part Time:   Full Time

Contract Type:   Permanent

Closing Date of Applications – 15/03/2024

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 thirteen 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.

You’ll work in a c.10-person internal strategy function that operates similarly to an in-house consultancy. Support and drive diverse strategic projects across CFG Clubs and business units ranging from long term value creation to existing business optimisation

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 dental cover, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts. 

Your Impact

1. Manage the day-to-day development and delivery of key strategic projects, and/or the identification and execution of new (investment) opportunities

1. Work with internal stakeholders to assist in the development & refinement of strategic opportunities.

1. Design and create high quality presentations with appropriate tone and clear narrative appropriate for use / review by senior management, with limited manager guidance

1. Deliver presentations to internal and external stakeholders, as required

1. Utilise and own flexible and robust ‘client ready’ models to appraise new opportunities    
2. Coordinate, guide and review the work of junior team members

1. Provide regular status updates and escalate issues / seek guidance from the Director and Head of Strategy
   

What we are looking for

Essential

• Strong knowledge of key business & strategy concepts, including market sizing, financial analysis, business case development & strategy planning
• Excellent understanding of financial evaluation methods and the sports (business) industry (both clubs and broader value chain), including key drivers of revenue / cost / profitability, business models, governance & regulatory structures in different markets etc.
• Highly capable user of Microsoft Excel, able to efficiently build well-structured and flexible ‘client ready’ models
• Able to manage own workload to balance priorities and required timelines, tracking progress on projects and providing succinct manager updates
• Able to develop stakeholder management relationships with managers across CFG departments
• Ability to communicate complex information concisely to non-technical audiences across CFG
• Can apply an “80:20” approach, focussing time on those areas most critical to a successful project outcome
• Flexibility – able to pivot quickly across a range of projects that could vary significantly by entity / client / project focus / deliverable / scale / timeline / approach / manager style

Desirable

• 3-4yrs experience in a professional services firm (management/strategy consulting, finance, banking) or the strategy / corporate finance unit of a top tier company in the sports, leisure or entertainment industries
• Foreign language proficiency, with particular emphasis on CFG club portfolio country languages

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.

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