City Football Graduate - Executive

City Football Graduate Executive 

Closing Date of Applications – 14th Nov 2024

September 2025 Intake. 

Estimated Recruitment Timeline (Exact Dates TBC)

• Assessment Centre in Manchester Jan 2025
• Second Stage Interviews (Virtual) Late Jan 2025
• Final Interviews in Manchester Feb 2025

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 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 departments to support on the development and delivery of strategic projects, investment initiatives and 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 parts of the organisation: each lasting approximately 7-8 months.  Your final placement is a route into a permanent role within the Group, having honed your skills and experience to launch a successful career at City Football Group. 

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

1. Project Planning & Management: You will support and ensure the smooth delivery of project outcomes, scoping out project parameters, and timelines identifying key milestones, monitoring, and managing workflow, task/activity completion and managing your day-to-day activities.
2. Data & Insights: You will organise, input, and monitor internal and external data to produce relevant reports and insights.  Identify trends and themes to support decision-making on projects and business cases. 
3. Research: You will enhance internal datasets through research, collation, and data capture from internal and external sources. Processing and analysing the data collected, ensuring quality control of data pipelines and models. This will include quantitative and qualitative market research across a core number of disciplines, benchmarking of competitors or ‘best practice’ examples in other industries.
4. Presenting & Communication: You will create well-formatted, effective business presentations for use by teams / other group stakeholders, based on manager guidance regarding structure and key messages in readiness for distribution to the wider business.

What we are looking for

Key Competencies:

• Minimum grade 2:1 at degree level, or equivalent.
• Ability to adapt to new situations and a reactive working environment.
• Self-motivated and willing learner, with strong motivation for self-development.
• Seeks and uses feedback / training opportunities to improve performance.
• Results & quality focussed and able to meet internal deadlines for providing work output.
• A team player, knowing when to collaborate and with a solution focused attitude.
• Act with the customer in mind and builds good relationships.
• Open to new ideas and different perspectives.

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.