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About the Role

The Academy Kit Manager leads the day-to-day delivery of kit and equipment services across Brentford FC's Academy pathway, ensuring players and staff receive the correct kit and equipment for all activities. This role involves managing staff, overseeing stock, laundry, and logistics, and supporting the Academy's development towards Category One standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day Academy kit and equipment operation across all programmes, ensuring consistent standards.
• Line-manage Academy Kit Coordinators/Assistants, setting responsibilities, planning rotas, monitoring performance, and supporting development.
• Plan and deliver all training, match, tournament, and travel kit requirements, including managing overlapping fixtures and changes.
• Manage player and staff sizing, seasonal allocations, personalization, issue, returns, and replacement of kit.
• Own Academy stock control, ordering forecasts, goods-in, inventories, and replenishment, maintaining accurate records.
• Oversee laundry turnaround, garment care, hygiene, and presentation, ensuring clean kit availability.
• Maintain kit rooms, storage areas, changing areas, and equipment spaces to be safe, secure, clean, and organised.
• Coordinate equipment and kit logistics for fixtures, tours, and tournaments, including packing, loading, transport, and travel documentation.
• Build effective working relationships with Academy Operations, coaches, and support teams to meet requirements.
• Ensure all kit preparation and presentation comply with Club, supplier, sponsor, and competition regulations.
• Manage delegated budgets responsibly, maintain purchasing and issue records, and report shortages or waste.
• Act quickly on operational issues, inspect equipment and working areas, and complete post-event reviews to improve standards.

Requirements

• Proven experience in kit, equipment, or operational delivery within professional football or another elite sporting environment.
• Strong understanding of the demands of a multi-team Academy programme and required standards.
• Good working knowledge of stock control, procurement, supplier management, and budget monitoring.
• Knowledge of laundry processes, garment care, personalization methods, hygiene, and safe use of machinery.
• Working knowledge of health and safety, COSHH, manual handling, safeguarding responsibilities, and confidentiality.
• A full UK driving licence.
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends and to travel within the UK and overseas, including overnight stays.

Skills

• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Ability to manage overlapping schedules, competing priorities, and short-notice changes.
• High attention to detail.
• Confident use of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
• Proficiency in stock-control or inventory systems.
• Ability to plan and deliver complex matchday and travel logistics.
• Sound commercial judgement.
• Clear, supportive, and accountable leadership.
• Ability to develop trusted working relationships.
• Calm, clear, and professional communication skills.
• Discreet, service-focused approach.
• Ability to set and challenge standards constructively.
• Ability to maintain professional relationships with suppliers and service providers.
• Ability to liaise effectively with external parties.
• Ability to represent Brentford FC professionally.
• Ability to work independently within agreed policies and budgets.
• Ability to prioritise workloads and deploy staff and stock effectively.
• Ability to make timely contingency decisions.
• Ability to escalate significant matters promptly.
• Ability to identify and implement practical improvements.
• Ability to help develop people, systems, and standards.
• Ability to use reviews, feedback, and operational data to improve processes.

Location

• Robert Rowan Performance Centre

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Academy experience is desirable

About the Company

• Brentford FC is a community club that prioritizes fans and is not afraid to take calculated risks while remaining financially sustainable.
• The Club takes pride in its environment and culture, focusing on development, inclusion, and innovative thinking.
• Core values include being progressive, humble, respectful, and working together as one team.
• Brentford FC believes a diverse workforce leads to better ideas, problem-solving, and growth.
• The Club plays in a new stadium located in vibrant west London, 15 minutes from Heathrow.

Equal Opportunity

• Brentford FC is proud to be an organisation that values equity, diversity and inclusion.
• The Club strives to create a culture that celebrates difference and ensures fairness, safety, representation, and belonging.
• Brentford FC strongly encourages applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly those from ethnically diverse communities, women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and disabled people.
• The recruitment process is fair and inclusive, with all decisions made based on merit and suitability.
• The Club welcomes the opportunity to discuss any specific arrangements, accommodations, or reasonable adjustments required for interviews.