Men's First Team Loans Manager
- Charlton Athletic FC
- Charlton Athletic Training Ground, Sparrows Lane
- 13 Nov, 2026
Job Description
- Job Description
- Loans Manager
Charlton Athletic Football Club | Men’s First Team
Salary: up to £45,000
Contract: Perm | Hours: 40hours per week
Sparrows Lane, New Eltham, London, SE9 2JR | Extensive travel, evenings and weekends
Help turn the right loan move into a defining step in a player’s development.
A successful loan needs the right environment, clear objectives and someone who stays closely involved. At Charlton Athletic, we’re looking for a Loans Manager who can bring those elements together, helping players return better equipped for the demands of first-team football.
Reporting to the Head of Individual Development, you’ll work closely with the First Team Manager, Managing Director and Academy Manager to support the Club’s loan strategy. You’ll connect our men’s first team, U21s and academy programmes, helping create purposeful routes into senior football.
You’ll help identify players who would benefit from a loan and assess potential clubs in the UK and overseas. From playing style and likely minutes to coaching quality and welfare provision, you’ll look carefully at what each move can offer. Working with Football Operations, you’ll support negotiations and ensure placements meet the relevant regulations.
Once a player is away, you’ll be their main point of contact. Through match attendance, training-ground visits and regular individual reviews, you’ll track progress and give practical feedback using video and performance data. You’ll work with host clubs and our coaching, medical, performance and Player Care teams to support development and wellbeing throughout the loan.
Your insight will help shape decisions on recalls, extensions and each player’s next step. You’ll maintain accurate loan records, provide concise reports to football staff and contribute to due diligence on potential incoming loans. This is a role with direct influence on how the Club develops players and plans their progression.
We’re looking for someone who knows the game, builds trusted relationships and cares about the individual behind each move. You’ll combine sound football judgement with the organisation to manage several players, respond to changing circumstances and deliver under transfer-window pressure.
You’ll bring:
• A proven track record in player development, loans, recruitment or football operations within a professional football club.
• Knowledge of UK and overseas football, an established network and the judgement to assess suitable loan environments.
• A working knowledge of FA, EFL, Premier League and FIFA loan and registration rules.
• Confidence using Excel, PowerPoint and football video and data platforms such as Impect, Catapult and Wyscout.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills, discretion and a proactive, organised approach.
• A full UK driving licence, flexibility for extensive travel and evening and weekend matches, and the right to work in the UK.
Experience managing loans at an EFL or Premier League club, supporting players aged 16–21, relevant coaching or scouting qualifications and additional languages would be an advantage.
If you want to help shape players’ next steps and contribute to Charlton’s men’s first-team pathway, we’d like to hear from you. We may close the vacancy early.
Charlton Athletic is committed to safeguarding children and young people and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Appointment is subject to satisfactory references, identity and right-to-work checks, and DBS clearance before starting.
Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Charlton, south-east London. The club was founded on June 9th, 1905 and has a very storied history from rising to the top-flight of English Football in the 1930s (First Division) and again in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, to winning the FA Cup in 1947 and to leaving their Valley home in the mid-1980s only to make an impassioned return in 1992. Historically, the women's team played under Charlton Athletic from 2000 to 2007 but were released to become an independently run team in 2007 following the men's team's relegation from the Premier League.
The women's team were originally formed as a non-professional team in 1991 and were highly successful in the early 2000s winning The FA Cup, the League Cup, and the Charity Shield, as well as coming runners-up in the top division in multiple seasons. In February 2021, the club acquired the Charlton Athletic Women's team, turning the team full-time professional, and integrating them to become one club again.
Currently, our men's first team competes in the Championship, the second tier of English football, and our women's team competes in Women’s Super League 2, the second highest division of women's football in England. At Charlton, we are ‘one club’ and can be truly described as a ‘family club’.