John takes over from John Harbin and told Sky Blue World: "My job is everything non-coaching, supporting the staff both on and off the field.
"I'm not involved on the grass with the players, I leave that to Chris, Steve, Oggy and Frankie but I'll be supporting them in every way I can to help them perform and get the best out of the players.
"I'll be overseeing everything from recruitment to medicine, sports science, performance analysis and support with admin. It will be extremely wide and varied."
"My role includes the organisation of pre-season, planning and preparing for the new training ground where we've got some really exciting proposals.
"We're looking at the structure of our squad for next season and starting to be pro-active in the transfer market; how we can strengthen and develop the squad further with the help of Steve Kean and Andy Thorn, our new chief scout.
"There's lots of planning and preparation and less affecting what occurs on a day-to-day basis in preparation for a Saturday. I'm here to put in place the strategies that will hopefully make everything tick.
"I've had a number of meeting with the senior management and backroom staff and we're putting plans in place to move forward and give the manager an enhanced squad of players to work with. Hopefully over the next few months there'll be a lot of new faces at Coventry City."
"We've got a great bunch of lads here and we've actually got quite a small squad in comparison to a lot of teams in the division. But there are definitely key positions that we need to strengthen in. "We've brought in some fantastic new staff. Andy Thorn - he played with Chris at Crystal Palace and the Chairman at Newcastle and he's got a fantastic pedigree of scouting with Everton and Fulham. "Mark Howard has joined us as fitness coach after being a member of Sam Allardyce's backroom staff at Bolton and Newcastle.
We will also improve our football analysis side of things and bring in one or two developments to help recruitment and pre and post-match analysis."