Strategy & Competitive Intelligence Analyst

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Job Description:

Join our dynamic team at King, the makers of Candy Crush, and help shape the future of mobile gaming in a creative, fast-paced, and collaborative environment where your ideas are as valued as your insights.

Your role within our Kingdom

As part of our central Strategy & Competitive Intelligence team, you'll develop deep expertise in the mobile gaming market to keep King ahead of trends and opportunities. We are responsible for King’s view on the outside world of mobile gaming, spotlighting the latest product innovations, game launches, and competitor activities. We draw insights from these to inform and support King’s products and strategic decisions. 

Strong data analysis and processing skills are essential, along with the ability to structure compelling arguments using data. You'll work with large, diverse, and often imperfect datasets, understanding how to manipulate and combine them to reach actionable conclusions. You appreciate that the best insights draw from both quantitative and qualitative data.

As a Strategy & Competitive Intelligence Analyst, you will:

• Analyse competitor data to identify industry trends, investigate causes, and deliver insights that influence game design and strategy.

• Provide tailored market and competitor insights to leadership and game teams for informed decision-making.

• Spot feature innovations in the gaming market, hypothesize on the drivers of their success or failure, and clearly communicate your findings.

• Collaborate with team members and game teams to support product development cases and refine product designs, shaping the future of King's games.

• Present key findings and adapt your messaging to suit diverse audiences, conveying complex problems and solutions creatively and effectively.

• Build and nurture relationships within the team and across King.

Skills to create thrills

• Strong quantitative skills with proficiency in SQL/Big Query and experience with Google’s ‘Looker’ data intelligence & analytics tool.

• Passionate about data and applying an analytical mindset, with keen attention to detail

• An ability to extract insights from various data sources by:

  • Creating robust and dynamic models

  • Developing presentations with key findings for diverse audiences

  • Effectively communicating key findings to senior leaders and product teams

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint).

• Adaptability in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

• A proactive attitude, with a willingness to roll up your sleeves and get things done.

Bonus Points

• Strong knowledge of the mobile gaming industry and/or a passion to dive into its business side.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or R

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.