Strategy Analyst

Job Description

Job description

Who We Are

Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur is an iconic English football club, playing in the Premier League and Women’s Super League. From North London to the world, our fanbase spans continents, cultures, and generations. Spurs is a club that’s always dared to push boundaries, breaking new ground and rewriting history.

We offer world-class facilities: In 2019, we opened our state-of-the-art Stadium, a £1 billion landmark that’s the beating heart of North Tottenham’s transformation. More than just a football ground, it’s an engine of change — creating 4,000 jobs and injecting £300 million into the local economy every year.

We’re at our brightest when we’re all together. Our Club, our teams, our community.

There is only one Hotspur. Tottenham Hotspur.

The Role

Tottenham Hotspur is seeking a dynamic, analytical and creative Strategy Analyst to join the Club’s Strategy & Business Analytics department (currently formed of 7 people of different seniority and experience). 

The Strategy team is responsible for ensuring the effective development, prioritisation and execution of the Club’s strategic priorities. This would include working with relevant departments to help them set long-term objectives and a roadmap to reach them, managing the sometimes competing priorities of different departments at the Club and supporting them in the day-to-day project management of their work. 

Key projects the Strategy Analyst is expected to work on include, but are not limited to, growing the domestic and international fanbase of the club, support the growth of Women’s football both on- and off-the-pitch, developing market-specific strategies for the Club’s key international geographies and conducting financial benchmarking exercises of our competitors in order to provide key information for our Board. 

The Strategy Analyst will work in a challenging and fast-paced environment, with their work informing the key decisions of the Executive Leadership team. There will be abundant learning and growth opportunities and one of the key objectives of the Senior Strategy Manager will be to help develop them and express their full potential. 

 

Please note we will only consider applications with a CV and Cover Letter.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Supporting key stakeholders with development, documentation and implementation of prioritised plans to deliver against centrally determined strategic priorities and assisting in associated decision-making 
  • Assisting Senior Strategy Manager with the creation of long-term strategic plans for key business areas  
  • Generating and exploring new ideas and initiatives for the Club and making clear recommendations to leadership  
  • Undertaking, supporting and, in time, leading ad hoc projects associated with the support and execution of new and existing strategic priorities, including facilitating analysis-based decision making 
  • Acting as an advocate for cross-functional ways of working, creation of structured plans and measurement of progress 
  • Aiding analysis-based decision making through the production of detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis communicated through high quality written materials 
  • Challenging ideas and using data to validate status quo ways of working and proposed alternatives throughout strategic projects

Required Qualifications

  •  A 2:1 or equivalent from University
  • Experience of working in strategy consultancy, accounting firm, investment banking or in-house strategy function 

Skills & Experience 

  • Proficient with Microsoft Office solutions (incl. PowerPoint and Excel) and with generative AI tools 
  • Ability to interpret large datasets and effectively summarise key findings to a variety of stakeholders, internally and externally 
  • Proficient with financial statements and experience of financial modelling 
  • Experience of supporting with Project Management tasks on projects with multiple cross-departmental workstreams 
  • Experience of presenting to and working with senior stakeholders and influencing outcomes 
  • Ability to effectively and independently plan, execute and complete detailed problem-solving exercises leading to clear recommendations 
  • Most importantly: a hunger to learn, a strong work-ethic and integrity, an ability to think outside the box and a desire to leave a lasting mark on Tottenham Hotspur 

The Tottenham Hotspur Way

Is to push harder, rise higher and forge greater. We involve, inspire and elevate one another to be our best selves, to produce exceptional on and off the pitch. Every day brings us opportunities to improve and make the impossible, possible.

Our values that bind us

DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE – Impossible made possible when we think outside the box

DARE TO CHANGE THE GAME – Relentlessly strive for glory and leave our mark on the world

DO IT OUR WAY – Win the right way, never at all costs.

Our Responsibility to you

Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. Successful candidates are to be reminded they would be subject to various background, DBS, and reference checks for this role.

We welcome applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, gender, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.