Data Engineer - Football - REF 1236

Data Analysis, automation and management

Football

Qualifications

Ind Std

Skills

Data Data Data (and football is a bonus)

Contact number

01132990570

Additional Benefits

Chance to become management level - football industry

Region

West Yorkshire

Description

Our client is Football Prizes ( www.footballprizes.co.uk ). Football Prizes runs prize competitions for football supporters, giving them the chance to win football prizes, sports memorabilia and merchandise. Football comes first but the prizes span the wider sports market. It is a profitable and fast growing business with a large and loyal football following, built on product instinct, speed and real football knowledge. Supporters love what it does and they keep coming back.

Every part of the business now generates valuable data: the competitions running on its own website, the memorabilia sales and the social funnel across Instagram, Facebook and TikTok that feeds them. What it does not yet have is one trusted view of what it all means or anyone accountable for turning it into better commercial decisions. There is no other data individual in the business. This role exists to change that.

The role

This is a hands on role with complete ownership and agency, where the platform is the means rather than the point. The competitions run on the Football Prizes website and the prize draws go out live through Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, so the core data sits within the site itself and its MySQL backend. You will build the plumbing yourself, bringing the website data, competition performance, memorabilia and merchandise sales and the social funnel into one trusted commercial view of the business. Then you will use it. You will own the forecasts, the competition economics and the customer numbers and you will turn what you find into recommendations that improve revenue and profit.

You are not building a data estate for its own sake and you are not there to remain the sole interpreter of everything either. The aim is one view the whole leadership team can read, trust and act on.

What you will do

• Build the trusted view. Bring the website and its MySQL backend, competitions, memorabilia sales and the social funnel into one commercial view of the business, built with whatever platform gets you there.
• Own the forecasting. Forecast revenue, customers and profit and keep improving forecast accuracy as the business scales.
• Own the competition economics. Analyse competition performance, pricing and portfolio and make the recommendations that improve results.
• Own the customer numbers. Measure retention, customer value and what the content and social funnel actually convert.
• Turn numbers into actions. Make the commercial recommendations leaders act on and be in the room shaping the calls that matter.

What you will bring

• Strong technical capability: solid SQL and pipeline skills, comfortable owning everything from a MySQL production backend to the layer the business reads.
• Proven forecasting and commercial analysis, with experience building KPI frameworks and forecasting models that leaders trust.
• A track record of turning data into recommendations rather than reports, with the credibility to influence senior decisions.
• A builder rather than a maintainer, happy being the only data person in the business with the judgement that comes with full autonomy.
• Commercially savvy rather than only technically strong, with excellent communication and storytelling.
• Likely from sport, high growth ecommerce, consumer brands, subscription businesses, sports betting or digital scale ups.

Reward & benefits. A competitive salary, depending on experience, with a discretionary bonus to be agreed. Complete ownership of the data and insight function, a real say in how the business grows and direct access to a newly forming leadership team.
Location. Leeds based and office based, with the possibility of some hybrid working.

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