Strategy Manager

2 weeks ago

Cambridge United Kingdom Jagex Full time

Description

Does helping to shape the future of one of the uk's largest video game companies sound appealing?

We are looking for a Strategy Manager to lead the team's strategic analysis, generating insights to assess growth opportunities. This role will also collaborate with leaders across Jagex, using their ability to influence others to support the delivery of active growth opportunities.

You will have high levels of exposure across the business, working closely with the senior leaders and shareholders to inform corporate strategy.

What you'll be doing:

    • Strategy Creation
        • Build investment cases for growth initiatives using inputs from market, competitor and player research
        • Support internal consulting projects across a range of growth topics (e.g. pricing, market entry, customer segmentation, proposition design)
    • Strategy Implementation and Review
        • Perform ad-hoc analysis and review of high impact initiatives to support strategic decision making
        • Support strategic goal setting across the business, using KPIs to set targets and monitor performance
        • Contribute to investor relations activities, including board presentations and external facing presentation materials
    • M&A
        • Participate in the discovery, evaluation, and analysis of potential M&A investments, including commercial due diligence.
        • Work with acquired studios across the portfolio to facilitate integration and realise synergies identified in the relevant investment case


What we're looking for:
    • Highly proficient in Excel and PowerPoint
    • Problem solving - ability to break down complex problems into their constituent parts and extract key insights from large volumes of information
    • Commercially-minded with a solid understanding of how to measure business success
    • Critical thinking - ability to absorb large volumes of information, think critically about which is most relevant and create clear insights
    • Analytical approach - confident using numbers to assess a situation and communicate ideas
    • Presentation skills - confident in building slide presentations to convey complex ideas and messages in a simple way
    • Verbal Communication - ability to communicate ideas effectively in verbal form to a range of audiences including senior stakeholders


What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:
    • Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan,
    • Minimum 6% Pension contributions
    • Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
    • Life Insurance
    • Discretionary annual performance bonus
    • Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
    • Flexible working hours
    • 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more


Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise.
If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you'll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we'll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you'll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together - with each other and with us - inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game's evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they're playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry's most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we'd love to talk to you. Worried you don't meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let's talk.

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