Head Of Player Recruitment at Fc K%C3%B8Benhavn
Job Description
F.C. København are recruiting a Head of Player Recruitment to lead the club’s recruitment function across both First Team scouting and the Academy recruitment pathway.
Reporting directly to the Director of Football, the successful candidate will have responsibility for the club’s overall recruitment strategy, people, budget, scouting coverage and systems, while ensuring recruitment is closely connected to squad planning and the club’s wider sporting strategy.
The Head of Player Recruitment will provide strategic and operational leadership across F.C. København’s recruitment department.
The role will act as the key link between the recruitment team and the Director of Football, establishing the structures and processes that enable the club to identify, evaluate and act on talent consistently and at an early stage.
Importantly, the position spans both First Team and Academy recruitment, ensuring a connected pathway and alignment between emerging talent, future squad requirements and First Team planning.
- Lead, develop and manage the club’s recruitment team.
- Define and continually develop the club’s player recruitment strategy.
- Take ownership of the department’s budget and resource allocation.
- Establish structured scouting coverage aligned with the club’s strategy and the requirements of teams throughout the pathway.
- Ensure the Academy recruitment pathway is aligned with First Team needs and squad planning.
- Develop robust recruitment systems, data connections and player-flow processes across the department.
- Report recruitment progress, priority positions and player targets to senior management.
- Contribute directly to scouting operations by managing a designated region.
- Undertake scouting assignments as part of the wider recruitment operation.
- Ensure recruitment processes provide clear and consistent information to support sporting decision-making.
Applicants should demonstrate:
- An extensive international football scouting and recruitment network.
- Significant experience within professional football recruitment.
- Proven leadership of a scouting or recruitment function, ideally spanning both First Team and Academy environments.
- Strong understanding of squad planning and its relationship with recruitment and wider sporting strategy.
- Experience prioritising resources and managing departmental budgets.
- A structured approach to data, recruitment systems and reporting.
- Strong stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with senior management, coaches and scouts.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
Danish language skills are advantageous but are not required.
This is a senior leadership position connecting multiple elements of the club’s talent strategy:
Recruitment Strategy → Scouting Network → Data & Systems → Academy Pathway → Squad Planning → First Team Recruitment
Alongside leading the department, the successful candidate will remain actively involved in scouting, combining strategic leadership with applied player identification and evaluation.
F.C. København describe an environment characterised by innovation, quality and development, with investment in staff wellbeing, learning and professional growth.
The club encourages applications from candidates with different perspectives and backgrounds, with appointments based on skills and potential.
Based in Denmark, with the club’s offices at F.C. København, Number 10, Jens Jessens Vej 10, 2000 Frederiksberg.
✈️ Regular international travel is required.
The successful candidate will start as soon as possible, with interviews taking place on an ongoing basis.
For questions regarding the role:
Malene Ravn – mrav@fck.dk
Applications must be submitted through the club’s online application process. Applications are not accepted by email.