Celtic hiring Junior Data Analyst

Celtic Football Club is seeking a Junior Data Analyst. Working under the mentorship of the Lead Data Analyst, this role will support the club’s growing data operations across our department. The role provides support in collecting, processing, and analysing football data. They will also assist with the maintenance of internal platforms, producing visualisations and reports to inform decision-making.




Key accountabilities will include:

Data Processing & Management
• Support the maintenance and improvement of the department’s internal data platform ensuring it remains reliable, scalable, and aligned with user needs.
• Collect, clean and organise data from multiple sources.
• Contribute to automation of workflows to improve efficiency and consistency within the department
• Assist in maintaining databases architectures and processes to ensure quality and consistency.
• Help document data processes.




Analysis & Insights
• Support the department requests
• Assist in analytical projects that support the club’s talent identification, player development, and team performance analysis.
• Contribute to the creation and testing of data models or metrics within existing analytical frameworks.
• Support the statistical scouting process.
• Produce summary tables, charts, and reports to communicate findings

Innovation & Research
• Evaluate new data sources, models and methodologies.
• Contribute to applied research to support the club’s long-term football strategy.
• Keep informed about the football analytics world.

Professional Development
• Develop technical and analytical skills under mentorship.
• Take part in continuous learning to stay up to date with new tools, technologies, and football data methods.

General Club Responsibilities
• Ensure all communications with colleagues is professional, appropriate and considerate of individual needs and circumstances.
• Actively build and maintain positive working relationships with Colleagues across the Club, ensuring a collaborative approach is adopted at all times.
• Treat all colleagues with dignity and respect by ensuring that your behaviour and approach during the course of all workplace activity is inclusive of all backgrounds and abilities and welcomes diverse contributions.





Skills and Experience required:

Essential:

• Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or a related field – or equivalent industry experience demonstrating strong analytical and computational skills.
• Up to 1–2 years’ experience in a data analysis or data science role, ideally within a professional football or sporting context.
• Experience supporting data processes end-to-end — from collection and integration to analysis and delivery.
• Previous experience working with football data sources (i.e. StatsBomb, Wyscout, SkillCorner)
• Understanding of football data types (event, tracking, and physical) and their applications.
• Demonstrable experience in effectively building and fostering strong professional relationships.
• Proven ability to write clear, maintainable, and efficient Python code for analytical and production workflows.
• Ability to create, validate, and maintain data models and bespoke performance metrics.
• Ability to write clear, structured and accurate reports.
• Ability to build clear, engaging, and insightful data visualisation
• Excellent oral communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify issues, propose solutions, and implement improvements independently.
• Self-motivated and able to work individually.
• Good organisation skills with the ability to manage own workload and complete tasks within constrained time frames.
• Able to perform well in high pressure environments and situations.
• A proactive and inquisitive nature.
• Discretion & Confidentiality.





Desirable:

• Experience working directly with first-team or academy staff in an elite football environment.
• Knowledge of databases design.
• Knowledge of cloud-based data solutions (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Experience deploying models or dashboards via web applications.
• Good knowledge of football.







Club Benefits

• Dedicated Employee Assistance Programme
• Staff retail discount on Celtic and Adidas merchandise
• Access to our Colleague Benefits & Discount Platform
• Regular colleague social events
• Subsidised on site canteen

 

Surely we must have had data analysis already? Im not sure this has much to do with anything. Probably someone left their role and they need to replace them

 

Especially if it's a Junior Role.

 

I think there could be something in this - Its the Timing.

It could be the start of Celtic adopting a major footballing data analytics system, like many European clubs use already, and of course as with Tony Bloom and Hearts, in advance of the new manager's arrival.

 

Maybe means Gavin has to re apply for his job

 

So Gavins tea boy…

 

The fans have pushed the club into the modern era.

 

I thibk we probably have, but its definitely an expanding part of football, so it may be the first time we've advertised for an actual analyst.

 

Analysising Date.. it will never catch on

 

It says they would be supporting the lead data analyst already at the club.

 

With 80m or so in the bank youd think we could stretch the budget for a 'senior' analyst or 10 rather than someone 2 years out of uni!

Id imagine there will be a lot of champ man managers applying for this one

 

As is everything with Celtic, their salaries are not at market rate...as expected!

 

I actually have an acquaintance who was a data analyst for one of the youth teams (maybe u18s) until last year or so. So I think it's something already in place throughout the club.

Probably something we're looking to expand though, regardless

 

Think it's flown under the radar a bit because the main focus/headlines have been about the full scale barrowfield development, but there was some updgrades/expansion work done at lennoxtown as well and I'm sure it was mentioned the data analyst facilities were part of it, plans put in place towards the end of Ange's time here.

 

They left out "must have played for Celtic at some point" in the essential experience section.

 

Subsidised on site canteen.

That’s a deal breaker.

 

You’s are looking far too deeply into this.

Do they accept Football Manager saves as CV’s?

 

FC 26 players only unfortunately bud

 

Every big company on the planet has junior roles, interns, trainees.

Mould someone fresh into what you want them to be.