Strategy & Ventures Analyst

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.

The successful candidate will provide internal support to the wider Strategy & Ventures team in the development and delivery of strategic projects or investment related activities across City Football Group

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. Conduct research tasks to support key projects including league strategy work, new business development, market evaluations and benchmarking, and other CFG growth initiatives
2. Conduct analysis to generate insights that can be shared with stakeholders across CFG’s portfolio of 13 clubs (including Manchester City) and other football-related businesses
3. Create concise and well-formatted PowerPoint slides and simple Excel models, based on line manager guidance and training
4. Contribute to wider team discussions and culture by proactively seeking and sharing insights on industry trends and potential opportunities for CFG
5. Collaborate and support team members across S&V (Executives; Managers and upwards), to prepare materials for distribution or presentation to the wider business, including senior stakeholders
6. Actively contribute to internal Strategy Team projects and activities initiatives to improve ways of working and knowledge retention
   

What we are looking for

Essential

• Proactive and able to adapt to a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Can structure problems and present findings clearly and concisely
• Numerically proficient
• Flexibility to move quickly across projects that range in stakeholder / content / deliverables
• Highly organised and self-motivated
• Focused on self-development and uses feedback to improve performance
• Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively whether alone or as part of a team
• Good attention to detail – able to produce documents that do not require multiple manager revisions
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook etc.)

Desirable

• Experience in a professional services firm (management/strategy consulting, finance, banking) or a company’s strategy / corporate finance unit
• Foreign language proficiency, with particular emphasis on CFG club portfolio country languages
• Understanding of key business and strategy concepts and financial statements, and how these apply to football clubs

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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