Newcastle United is ramping up plans to expand its global scouting network.
Newcastle United are looking for first-team and emerging talent scouts in several European and South American countries.
This season, the Magpies have made significant behind-the-scenes progress, with several new recruitment roles created to help bolster the club’s first-team and academy sides.
The club has been looking for a 13 to 18 UK scouting lead, a head of emerging talent, a recruitment operations manager, and a scouting lead at the club’s academy since January.
United recently appointed former Manchester City and Leeds United scout Paul Midgley as head of youth recruitment as part of sporting director Dan Ashworth’s academy reform.
Paul McLaren, a Manchester City scout, is set to join the club as head scout. Delroy Ebanks, West Ham United’s academy recruitment manager, has been identified to fill a similar role scouting southern England.
However, the club’s scouting network is now expanding beyond the UK as the club seeks to hire up to seven new international scouts.
The club are looking to recruit scouts for France; Germany, Holland and Belgium; Spain and Portugal; Italy, Switzerland and Croatia; Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Denmark and Serbia; Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador as well as Argentina and Uruguay.
Once the positions are filled, Newcastle will have an extensive global recruitment network.
“You will act as an ambassador for Newcastle United in your specific region, leading on the identification and assessment of emerging talent and first team targets,” according to the job description.
“You will recommend appropriate high-quality talent in accordance with club strategy and process, working closely with the UK-based scouting coordinator and recruitment operations Manager.
“The successful candidate must have extensive demonstrable experience of talent assessment and identification within elite professional football and a strong network in their respective locations.
“Expert knowledge of football is required, including game models, playing styles, and profiles of technical, tactical, physical, and psychological traits in potential targets.
“A strong understanding of how understanding data insight can contribute to the development of recruitment and the ability to accurately analyse and assess player potential / ability are essential.”
Newcastle United look to appoint data expert
Newcastle is also looking for an experienced head of data and insight to work alongside the club’s football data team.
The position will involve reporting to St James’ Park’s sporting director Dan Ashworth and developing a ‘world-leading’ data and insight department.
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“Working closely with our Sporting Director, you will develop, implement, and maintain data and insight strategies, as well as understand and interpret football data to drive key decisions while collaborating effectively with a broader multi-disciplinary team,” according to the job description.
“You will have strong communication and negotiation skills to enable collaborative working with 1st team football, recruitment, academy and women’s departments to ensure that data and insights are incorporated into their decision-making processes.
“Previous Azure and Amazon Web Services infrastructure experience is required, as is a master’s degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, performance analysis, or a related field (or equivalent).”
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