Football Data Manager Freelance Remote Western European Time

As the organiser of some of the biggest and most iconic sport events in the world, we lead the way in the sport and event industry.

Join the team as a freelancer and support us on our mission.

THE POSITION

These are your key tasks:

• Support the Football Technology & Data department with football data projects, mainly the collection and delivery of football data at FIFA tournaments.
• Coordinate FIFA’s Football Data ecosystem, organising and leading the various meetings and communications channels with football data providers, consumers and other stakeholders.
• Manage football data collection projects aimed at delivering data in FIFA tournaments and maintain the project requirements and delivery plans on Azure DevOps.
• Draft high-level delivery reports on the advancement of projects, risks and decisions.
• Maintain the Football Data Catalog describing the football data offering (pdf and altan).
• Support existing and new stakeholders in their own implementations of football data projects.
• Collaborate with Football Data Operations to organise relevant testing sessions and validate implementations before tournament delivery.
• Facilitate collaboration within the Football Data team, documenting meetings and centralising resources.
• Support tournament operations when required, including monitoring live and post-match football data delivery and troubleshooting any issue that arises.

YOUR PROFILE

We work hard at FIFA.
We are dedicated, ambitious and innovative.

And we respect our values. Always.

For all roles, we seek talented people with an entrepreneurial spirit and a global mindset.

The specific competencies we require for this position are:

• 3-5 years of experience in as project manager or product manager in technology or data projects, ideally in the sports industry
• Experience in the football industry is an advantage
• Fluent in English
• Proficiency in any other FIFA language (French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian) is an advantage
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, TEAMS, Planner)
• Experience with Azure DevOps or similar tool
• Experience with Snowflake or Powerbi is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree or similar higher education in business administration or project management
• Strong cooperative and communication skills
• Excellent redactional skills
• Rigorous, collaborative, and innovation-driven
• Good understanding of the football game as a football consumer (TV viewer, sports digital platforms, in-stadium experience)
• Fondness for data and technology in sports
• Availability to work up to 20 days per month
• Working hours on Western European time, and readiness to work outside standard business hours (e.g. evenings, weekends), typically to monitor football matches
• Readiness to work almost exclusively remotely
• Compensation based on a day rate 

About FIFA

We are FIFA, the global governing body for football.

Our vision is to make football truly global, diverse and inclusive, for the benefit of the entire world. The last FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 2022 attracted more than 5 billion viewers and the last FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 was the greatest-ever FIFA Women's World Cup that inspired millions of girls and women around the globe. The opportunities for growth are exciting.

We are a modern organisation with over 800 passionate employees who are Living Football every day. Our headquarters are based in Zurich, Switzerland, and we have offices in Miami and Paris, plus eleven regional offices from New Zealand to India, South Africa, Panama and Paraguay.