Performance Analyst

Role Overview

• Deliver a high-quality performance analysis service that supports the Wales Men’s Senior Team across all camps, matches and competitions.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with coaches, players and performance staff, ensuring analysis is relevant, practical and aligned to the needs of the team.
• Provide clear and timely opposition analysis, helping coaches and players understand strengths, threats, trends and opportunities.
• Support the development and delivery of game plans by translating complex information into simple, actionable insights that can be applied on the training field and in competition.
• Deliver comprehensive reviews of team and individual performance, identifying key learning points that support continuous improvement.
• Produce coach and player-facing resources that strengthen understanding of the Welsh DNA, tactical principles, game strategy and positional requirements.
• Develop and maintain performance measures and benchmarks that help assess progress against the team’s playing identity and performance objectives.
• Deliver live and post-match analysis, ensuring coaches have access to accurate and relevant information when it matters most.
• Produce player, positional and opposition profiles that support selection, succession planning and long-term squad development.
• Contribute to scouting and intelligence processes, combining quantitative data, qualitative observations and rugby expertise to provide a rounded view of performance.
• Support innovation and continuous improvement by contributing to research, insight and development projects across the performance environment.

Requirements

• Has experience working within an elite international rugby environment.
• Exceptional rugby knowledge, with the ability to contextualise technical and tactical insights and translate them into impactful coach
• and player-facing materials.
• Excellent knowledge of performance analysis systems, technologies, data and video analysis platforms used within elite rugby environments.
• Significant experience in the collection, management and interpretation of quantitative and qualitative performance information, including opposition analysis, player scouting and the creation of coach
• and player-facing insights.
• Relevant qualifications and experience that demonstrate an understanding of the technical, tactical and physical demands of elite rugby.
• Degree-qualified in a relevant discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Excellent communication, planning and organisational skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across multidisciplinary performance teams.
• Demonstrates professionalism, discretion and sound judgement, with the flexibility to meet the demands of an elite international rugby programme.
• Excellent IT skills, specifically Google Workspace.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
• Ability to communicate and work through the medium of Welsh is desirable.

Benefits

• Salary Sacrifice Pension (5% employee contribution, matched by WRU)
• Life assurance scheme
• WRU Group Ticket Allocation (in line with ticketing policy)
• One additional paid day off (birthday leave)
• Employee assistance programme
• Team Tactics – hybrid working arrangements
• Free stadium parking and gym
• WRU Group store and tour discounts
• WRU Group partnership offers
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme