Strategy & Commercial Insights Manager – Football

Strategy & Commercial Insights Manager – Football

Manchester

£50-65k

18 month Fixed Term Contract

We’re looking for a commercially focussed individual with a background in research and insights, to join a major Premier League Football Club. Helping to shape the future of their commercial strategy, you’ll operate at a strategic level and work closely with the club’s board of directors.

The role…..

Providing a key resource for a number of internal and external stakeholders with the overall objective to coordinate commercial activity around the organisations’ stadium, analysing business opportunities and increasing the value of current and new stadium wide business. The Commercial Strategy Manager will support key stakeholders by providing robust and commercial decision support on new market initiatives and new product areas in order to achieve strategic and financial goals in these areas.

· Analysing opportunities presented to the organisation

· Providing evaluation of market-place data and trends to identify potential areas for growth

· Ensuring all data is captured and recorded in a centralised system

· Presenting the best options to the Commercial Executive team whilst mitigating risk and optimising growth

· Liaising with a wide variety of departments and stakeholders to ensure that the correct and most up to date information is available at all times

· Working with the company’s CRM and Marketing team and the Sales team providing objective input and data to help shape the business and sales planning

· Responsible for all research materials and data relating to the stadium’s commercial business

· Evaluating data currently available from central sources, marketplace research available in the public domain and research commissioned specifically to aid the presentation of the proposition

· Putting the provision of credible data and information at the centre of the project-specific sales effort

· Analysing trends and identifying cost savings and opportunities to increase revenue through data modelling and data interrogation

· Working with the wider stadium team to manage and understand commercial impacts on other areas, particularly Operations, Legal & Financing

· Supporting Commercial teams in order to identify new growth opportunities/sales leads underpinned by market trends and competitor performance

· Undertaking competitor research to identify opportunities

Undertaking market and sector studies to support decision making as appropriate

The Skills and Experience you’ll need…

Strong analytical skills

A degree in a numerical or business-related discipline

Demonstrable experience of facilitating growth through data analytics and reporting

Ability to analyse, manipulate and report on complex data

Strong interpersonal, communication, influencing and presentation skills

Experience working in a fast-paced and deadline driven environment

Exceptional Excel skills

Project management skills

The role is based in Manchester with the potential to regularly work remotely if situated elsewhere in the country. This is an 18 month fixed term contract which the club would hope to make permanent after this time. Please forward your CV

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