Head of Technical

We are seeking an ambitious, highly credible and strategically minded Head of Technical to play a role in shaping the recruitment strategy of the first team.

Responsible for ensuring a clear and consistent technical vision across first-team football recruitment . Working closely with the Head of Recruitment and First Team Manager .

The successful candidate will bring a strong understanding of the demands of the modern professional game, with proven experience of working within a high-performance environment and an ability to translate strategic objectives into effective football operations. They will provide leadership across recruitment and squad planning, player profiling, talent identification, ensuring decisions are underpinned by a combination of expert football judgement, data and market intelligence.

With the Championship offering a highly competitive and constantly evolving environment, the role will require an individual who is collaborative, decisive and comfortable operating at pace.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to the club’s ambitions, establish a distinctive technical identity and help build a football operation capable of sustained success at the highest levels of the English game.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Identify and assess players of interest through a combination of scouting intelligence, performance data, video analysis and live observation, ensuring potential targets are aligned with the club’s recruitment strategy, playing and philosophy and defined player profiles.
• Source, edit and compile high-quality video packages on priority recruitment targets using platforms such as Wyscout and other relevant scouting tools, ensure footage is purposeful and clearly demonstrates the players technical, tactical, physical and positional attributes.
• Translate tactical and positional profiles provided by the Head of Recruitment and First Team Manager into focused visual and analytical evidence, ensuring scouting outputs directly address the specific requirements or the role and playing model.
• Maintain accurate, structured and accessible scouting and recruitment data, ensuring player information, reports, video, KPIs and supporting intelligence are correctly categorised regularly updated and instantly retrievable.
• Develop, implement and continually refine bespoke club-specific KPIs for different positions and player profiles. Ensure KPIs reflect the club’s tactical requirements, recruitment philosophy and evolving needs of the First Team and Academy.
• Retrieve, manipulate and interpret data through APIs and other data sources, ensuring relevant information can be integrated efficiently into the club’s scouting and recruitment processes.
• Design and build clear, intuitive data visualisations to support player recruitment and decision-making. Present complex datasets in a way that enables coaches, scouts, recruitment staff, and senior management to quickly understand player performance and suitability.
• Integrate traditional scouting, video analysis, and data-driven intelligence to provide a comprehensive evidence base for player assessment, identifying both strengths and potential areas of concern within recruitment targets.
• Support the creation and maintenance of player shortlists, ensuring targets are appropriately profiled, prioritised, and supported by relevant technical, tactical, statistical and visual evidence.
• Manage and protect all transfer and recruitment-related information with the highest level of confidentiality, ensuring sensitive player, club, agent and financial information is handled appropriately and shared strictly on a need-to-know basis.
• Attend scouting and recruitment meetings as required, contributing relevant technical, visual and…