Scouting Manager Football

Job description

Country: Germany                                              
Job Function: Marketing & Communications

State / Province: Germany                                
Position Type: Full time

City / Location: Herzogenaurach                                   
Brand: adidas Group

Relocation: No

adidas Football

At adidas, interesting, amazing and inspiring aren’t just ideas. They are what we do every single day.

adidas Football is famous for innovation, technical excellence and above all, performance. Our boots are worn by everyone from the stars of the game including Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Gareth Bale and Manuel Neuer, through to the recreational players dreaming of the world stage on a Saturday morning.

Purpose

·  To detect, identify and sign the young upcoming talents, future icon of adidas.
·  This role plays an instrumental part in the way that the brand is portrayed within the global football market and ensures on a day to day basis that we continue to raise the awareness and image of adidas as the No. 1 Global football brand.
·  Scouting is key strategy for the future of adidas football in order to make sure the stars of tomorrow play with adidas  today and in the future (from signing through their career).
·  Servicing criteria at player is extremely demanding. This position relies heavily on interpersonal skills and relationship building to achieve higher levels of partner collaboration.
·  Absolute consistency in the approach to servicing and gaining full value from player associations is critical and team work is essential to drive standards upwards.
·  Competitors of adidas, including through the use of their sponsored clubs, are extending their reach in player scouting meaning it is becoming increasingly more competitive to identify, recruit and sign players to the brand.
·  adidas has always been associated with the best symbols and provides the best service. The brand of choice by professionals.

Key Accountabilities

·  To detect, identify and sign the young upcoming talents, future icon of adidas.
·  To become a key contact in the world of Young players by providing excellence of servicing and product supply.
·  To provide an integrated approach to securing the best young football talents from the age of 14 upwards and establish adidas as the desirable brand for young players and professionals alike.
·  To create a network in the world of football among Scouts, Coaches, Regional advisers, agents.
·  To attend to national and international Youth events and use them as a platform for scouting (Identify, contact, network and sign).                                        
·  To work within the adidas international football team and contribute to the global scouting strategy by bringing local expertise and information.
·  Key contributor to feed, maintain and exploit the global scouting database by ensuring an accurate, regular, and professional update of the data.
·  To utilise industry knowledge to provide feedback to the brand at all times: Players info, competitor activity, product feedback.

Knowledge, Capabilities & Experiences

·  Football background as a player on high level and/or coaching (1-2 years’ experience).
·  Needs to have both football knowledge and business mindset.
·  Schedule flexibility: Position requires substantial travel (60% to 70%) for meeting with agents, clubs and attendance to games.
·  Fluency in English and German are essential.

Qualifications

The individual must be highly motivated and focused on task in hand.  They must be extremely well organised with an empathy towards the sport in which they are dealing with.

·  Focused.
·  Good planning & organisation.
·  Product Knowledge.
·  Good interpersonal skills.
·  Good communication-verbal and written skills.
·  Proficiency with computers and standard software (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel)
·  Football Market and Industry Awareness.
·  Football sport knowledge
·  Commercial awareness, knowledge of the sporting goods business model.
·  Good negotiation skills.
·  Good network and reputation in the world of football.
·  Ability and commitment to retain absolute confidentiality concerning all business matters.
·  Driven to succeed and deliver against goals and work expectations.
·  Understanding of the issues facing players (e.g. financial, media, moving, languages, etc.) and the ability to help adidas develop programs to assist players with these issues.

The company language for the adidas Group is English, so please submit resumes and covering letters in English.

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