Blackburn Rovers FC
Blackburn, UK
The role
Reporting to the Board of Directors and Director of Football, the main responsibility of the Head of Player Recruitment is to develop and oversee the process that enables BRFC to identify and recruit emerging and undervalued players faster and more effectively than other clubs.
The Head of Player Recruitment will manage a team of established scouts in both the first team and academy departments who are already working across target demographics and geographies. They will align the department’s work to the Club’s vision in order to increase the depth and scope of work and help develop an effective international recruitment structure and strategy.
The Head of Player Recruitment will embrace the importance of both the traditional form of scouting along with the use of data and analytics to complement and target which players are watched and how this information is managed and visualised. They will develop both talent identification and player...