Manchester, GB
City Football Graduate Technology
Closing Date of Applications – 14th Nov 2024
September 2025 Intake.
Estimated Recruitment Timeline (Exact Dates TBC)
Our Story
Established in 2013, City Football Group is the world’s leading private owner and operator of football clubs, with total or partial ownership of thirteen 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.
The City Football Graduate Programme is designed to build core capability and skills to platform you for a successful technology career within our organisation. Each placement is designed to develop key skills, knowledge and behaviours that will support the business and your long-term career.
You will work across selected Technology teams to support on the development and delivery of strategic projects, technology initiatives and technology product development. The programme provides experience of working in a leading global sporting organisation and the opportunity to see and feel what the industry has to offer. Whilst being supported through in- role development and on-rotation mentoring, the role is perfectly placed to experience and contribute to a high-performance culture.
Over a two-year period, you will undertake an initial induction and onboarding period followed by 3 rotations into different departments within City Football Group’s Technology and Data Analytics functions: each rotation lasting approximately 7-8 months. Your final placement is intended to be a route into a permanent role within the Group, having honed your skills and experience to launch a successful career in Technology at City Football Group.
City Football Group’s Technology Departments are tightly integrated into the operations of the company and span across several core innovation areas: Fan Technology Solutions; Insights, Intelligence and Analytics; Football Technology Solutions; Business Technology Solutions; Infrastructure and Service Delivery; Architecture; and Cyber Security.
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
What we are looking for
Key Competencies:
-You will have a University Degree or equivalent Further Education qualification in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or any closely related subject area.
-This will be backed up by practical examples of interest and work in and around Information Technology, Data and Analytics, Machine Learning or related areas.
You will possess:
Desirable: Coding Skills (Python, SQL, JavaScript); Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence skills; Language skills (French, Spanish, Portuguese, )
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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