Global Scouting Consultant

MRKT Insights is a football consultancy. We work with established top 5 league clubs all the
way down to small clubs in minor leagues seeking a competitive advantage. Our work includes helping clubs arrange their structures and processes, identify and implement the best solutions, as well as adding capacity in key areas such as scouting and recruitment.

The role:

To join our scouting and recruitment team as a global scouting consultant.

To provide expertise in player identification across the globe.

We arrange scouting in a funnel system, we constantly monitor the market for emerging talent and interesting players for our clients.

Players that have been identified are then entered into our database and assessed by our client-facing analysts for suitability to that specific team.

The successful candidate will have full access to our data-driven players search tools, and our video scouting software.

Their job will be to constantly monitor the globe for talent and be available to give player recommendations to colleagues.

The role is not office based and the candidate will be required to work from home.

The candidate:

An encyclopedic knowledge of football is a key requirement, you must be the type of person who loves finding good players and be proactive in your approach.

You need to be able to make quick and accurate judgements on whether a player has the technical skill base to play at a higher level and their long-term potential.

You must have good written English and I.T skills in order to create initial database entries.

You must have a good understanding of football, you need to know how players fit into a team, the difference in roles across a team and an understanding of the quality of different leagues.

Pay and Prospects

MRKT is a small, independent company. In two years we have grown out of the blogging/football twitter world into a company working in elite level sport. Every person in the company, including the founders, has followed the same path.

Initially, we are looking for someone to provide independent expertise for which they will receive a small monthly retainer and access to our tools and video platform. There are no expectations on working hours, and no specific assigned tasks, your job is to build up your knowledge and share the expertise with us when asked.

If you do want a career in football we are in a good position to help make it happen. We promote from within, with 60% of our consultants having risen to work either full or part-time in professional football. We appreciate that many applicants will not have an ambition of working full time in football, this is no problem, we have consultants already who see this as a fun side project and ~90% of all people we’ve ever hired are still with us in some capacity.

The Application Process:

Please fill out the application form which can be found at: MRKT Insights – Global Scout
Consultant Application Form

If you have any questions regarding the role or process please email contact@mrktinsights.com

We welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, and nationalities.

Applications close on 16th August.