First Team Data Analyst

Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is an English Premier League Club, based in North London.

Led by the late great Bill Nicholson, the Club became the first in England to win the League and FA Cup Double in 1961, and the first in the UK to win a European Trophy two years later. Spurs has since been home to some of the game’s great entertainers, including Jimmy Greaves, Glenn Hoddle, Paul Gascoigne, David Ginola, Gareth Bale, Heung-Min Son and Harry Kane.

In April 2019, the Club opened an iconic new stadium that sits at the heart of a £1billion sport-led regeneration of North Tottenham. The stadium is the largest football club stadium in London and is a multi-use venue with the ability to host a variety of events 365 days a year, including NFL, boxing, rugby, concerts, and other major events, plus visitor attractions including Stadium Tours and the Dare Skywalk.

The stadium development scheme has to date created more than 4,000 new jobs for local people, with circa £300m pumped into the local economy each year.

Tottenham Hotspur has:

• A clear strategy to develop talent from within its Academy, showcased by a strong track record of Academy players graduating to the first-team squad.

• A £100m state-of-the-art Training Centre that supports the Club’s ambition to attract, develop and retain the best talent.

• Commercial partnerships with globally recognised brands including AIA Group Limited (AIA), one of the world’s leading providers of life insurance services, and Nike, the world’s leading sports footwear and apparel company.

• A commitment to minimizing its environmental impact across Club operations, being named as the greenest in the Premier League for the past three years. Tottenham Hotspur is a signatory of the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework, committing to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and become net zero carbon by 2040.

• An award-winning Foundation that is renowned for creating opportunities to help enhance the lives of people in its local community through education, employment, health, and social inclusion programmes.

The opportunity has arisen to recruit a First Team Data Analyst to enhance the Club’s use of Football Data. The role will support the capture, management, and delivery of data insights across a high-performance multidisciplinary model.

Job Purpose:

• Delivery of performance insights across the club and within a multidisciplinary environment.

• Support the contextual interpretation of data to help provide performance insights.

• Ensure data capture, management, and use is consistent across the Club.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure data capture, management, and use are consistent across disciplines.

• Daily maintenance of databases and business intelligence tools.

• Support the automation of data services based on the agreed needs of the various performance departments.

• Innovatively find new ways to visualise data insights.

• Collaboratively challenge methods of delivery within the First Team environment. Listen and respond to department heads' needs and support the Lead Data Analyst.

• Connect data insights to the footballing philosophies of the First Team.

• Demonstrate excellent communication skills and simplify and connect complex theories to real-world problems. Be solutions orientated.

• Create compelling visuals and easily understood data narratives which empower a data-driven decision-making process.

• Work with the Lead Data Analyst to streamline workflows, improve outputs and give visibility to the data narrative.

• Provide the Lead Data Analyst with regular updates (and visibility) on data projects.

• Maintain excellent communication and meticulous management of confidential information.

• Build a network with external partners and leading clubs to ensure we remain aware and at the forefront of operational best practices.

• Ensure the Club’s use and management of data adheres to the legislation defined by GDPR.

Key Contacts:

Internal – Chief Football Officer, Head Coach, Technical Director, Head of Football Strategy, Head of Recruitment, Head of Performance Analysis, Head of Medical, Head of Sport Science, Head of Nutrition.

External - Data providers & Data partners

Personal Attributes:

• Thinks ahead, generates innovative ideas.

• Values & respects others, builds relationships, collaborates.

• Gets things done, delivers to highest of standards, takes responsibility.

• Ability to self-motivate and prioritise workloads.

• Naturally inquisitive intel gatherer who is passionate about providing insights based on data.

• Excellent organisational skills with an ability to execute critical deliverables quickly and accurately.

• Remain positive, flexible and engaging even under times of stress or pressure.

Skills And Experience:

• Minimum BSc/MSc in a quantitative subject - Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Statistics or Economics.

• Experience in using R and/or Python.

• Strong knowledge of analytics and data science.

• Efficient querying of databases via SQL queries.

• Experience designing, creating, and maintaining relational databases and ETL processes.

• Experience with REST APIs and JSON scripts.

• Experience with business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Domo, Looker or equivalent.

• Data visualisation expertise using matplotlib or equivalent.

• Create and manage online dashboards and Web apps – Database (Postgres), Web Servers (nginx), Web Framework (Flask or Django), Front end design (CSS, HTML, JS), Task Queue & Automation Management (Celery)

• Experience creating automated data-driven documents to support high-level decision-making – including Artificial intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML).

• Experiences in managing AWS (or other cloud-based solutions) servers.

• Experience working with football data in an elite environment.

• Exceptional technology skills and understanding.

• Proactively monitor new and innovative trends within football and data science.

• An effective communicator with compelling presentation and excellent written skills.

• The ability to manage and achieve both departmental and personal targets.

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.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club welcomes applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.