Leicester are poised to appoint James McCarron, director of player development at the City Group - the company overseeing Manchester City among other clubs - as their new sporting director.
The former Sunderland head of performance is due to start next month in a newly created position at the Championship strugglers.
McCarron had also worked at the Premier League, as elite performance manager, and was sporting director at Belgium club Lommel, another side under the umbrella of Manchester City's owners, between 2021 and 2025.
The Foxes are restructuring their hierarchy with McCarron set to work alongside director of football Jon Rudkin.
"The structure will change," owner Khun Top told BBC Radio Leicester last month.
"He [Rudkin] will go up above the sporting director, and the sporting director will take care of more of the day-to-day, work more on strategy and what we should play [like], what identity, what players should be brought in, and work with the young ones in the academy."
McCarron will arrive after Leicester were docked six points for breaching the English Football League's financial rules, although the club have appealed.
The deduction has put them in danger of relegation to League One - 10 years after winning the Premier League title.
The Foxes appointed Gary Rowett as their manager until the end of the season last week after the sacking of Marti Cifuentes.
Leicester drew 2-2 at Stoke in Rowett's first game in charge on Saturday, leaving them third bottom of the Championship, and they travel to promotion-chasing Middlesbrough on Tuesday.