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Football Transactions Manager
Manchester City
City Football Group (CFG) is the holding company established to oversee the creation and administration of a network of linked clubs and other footballing operations under the aegis of Manchester City.
Job Posted- 30 Apr 2025
Status- Full Time
Location- England
Closing date- 16 May 2025
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.
- 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.
- 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
Essential
- 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.
- Proactive, B&D / commercial drive.
- Strategic, analytical mindset
Desirable
- Multilingual (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French).
- 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.
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