What are we looking for?

Essential for the role:

Skills:

• Strategic Thinking: Comfortable linking analytical work to organisational goals.
• Prioritisation & Decision-Making: Skilled at managing competing demands, making evidence-based trade-offs, and communicating priorities confidently.
• Stakeholder Management: Strong relationship-builder able to challenge constructively, manage expectations, and adapt communication to senior audiences.
• Problem-Solving & Framing: Able to translate ambiguous questions into clear analytical briefs and shape the approach for the team.
• Technical: Applies advanced Power BI and Excel skills, with strong knowledge of SQL and/or DAX.

Experience:

• Leading an analytics or insight function, including managing backlogs, pipelines, or portfolios of insight work.
• Working with cross-functional technical teams (e.g., data engineering, digital technology) to improve data pipelines and models.
• Integrating and analysing data from multiple sources and managing complex datasets.
• With the end-to-end ownership of a dashboard ecosystem.
• Presenting insights in compelling ways, using storytelling, visualisation best practices, and non-technical language.

Beneficial to have:

Skills:

• Familiarity with advanced analytics practices, such as forecasting, segmentation, or geospatial analysis.
• Familiarity with new and emerging data analytics tools and platforms including AI.
• Background in sport, participation-focused organisations, or place-based insight, especially involving datasets like ONS, Active Lives, or local authority data.

Experience:

• Developing people through clear guidance, feedback, and career support, building both technical and soft-skill capability.
• Influencing senior leaders through compelling insight storytelling and evidence-based recommendations.

What's in it for you?

We are committed to ensuring everyone can flourish in their roles. To achieve this, we have unique office spaces under the arch of the iconic Wembley National Stadium, which is the home of English Football. We are also delighted to offer a world-class, Elite Performance Centre, St. George's Park in Staffordshire, which is an exceptional setting to develop and inspire high-performing England teams and leaders.

We pride ourselves on offering a competitive salary as well as great opportunities to develop and grow in your role. But that is not all; we also have a range of exciting benefits, some of which can be found below:

• Access to event day tickets at Wembley Stadium, alongside a host of regular internal events throughout the season, encourages you to connect and learn with your colleagues and look after your mental health and well-being.
• Free, nutritious lunches at Wembley Stadium and St. George's Park.
• Free private medical cover.
• A contributory pension scheme.
• An additional 'Thank You' day's leave, volunteering days, as well as 25 days of annual leave (based on a full-time, permanent contract).
• A hybrid working model which offers greater flexibility.

For more information on what it is like to work at The FA, please visit our FA Careers page.

Currently, we are working within a hybrid working model whereby the expectation is to work from your contractual location for part of the week, and as and when required by the team. The remaining days can be worked remotely. We will continue to monitor this model, and it may be adjusted in future if deemed necessary. The contractual location of this role can be found on the FA Careers page.

We are a diverse workplace, aspiring to represent football across the country. The Football Association actively promotes inclusion and diversity, encouraging you to be the best version of yourself at work.

We welcome applications from everyone and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. If you have any particular requirements in respect of the recruitment or interview process, please mention this during your application.

As part of the FA's commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, every employee will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role and in line with legislation and government guidance.