Head of Corporate Strategy, King

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom King Full time

**Craft**:
Finance

This is a unique opportunity to join a successful and highly valued team that works closely with King’s Executive Leadership in shaping our long
- term strategy and roadmap, and in making mission
- critical decisions that cut across the full breadth of the business. The team also supports the implementation of new business initiatives that ‘move the needle’ for King. This role reports directly to the CFO King.

Working collaboratively across all parts of our business, including our game teams, technology, marketing, and business performance, you will be responsible for supporting a dynamic mix of high
- impact projects. Many of these projects are inherently complex and cross
- functional in nature. You will play a key role in addressing some of our biggest opportunities and threats. This is a highly visible position that requires frequent interaction with King’s Executive Leadership and other key stakeholders at King.

**Your Role Within Our Kingdom**
- Support the development of our overarching strategy, including building long
- term plans for our Franchises and New IP, distribution and technology strategies
- Identify, analyse and evaluate mission
- critical business decisions through thorough, fact
- based analysis, and business case modelling
- Explore and assess major new business opportunities
- Work both independently and with stakeholders from across the broader King organisation to develop actionable recommendations, and to drive the implementation of our strategic initiatives

**Skills to Create Thrills**
- Experience at a top
- tier consulting firm (Senior Manager/Junior Partner) and/or
- Experience in a corporate strategy team of a leading Media or Technology firm
- Proven ability to influence executives at the highest level within a fast
- moving organisation
- Demonstrable ability to work in a dynamic environment with high ambiguity;
- Ability to think creatively, frame and structure complex problems, and lead substantially complex modules on strategic projects
- Experience leading teams and executing complex strategic and operational initiatives
- Excellent skills in financial modelling and business case development
- Impeccable written and oral presentation skills
- Proven ability to operate effectively in cross
- functional settings - ability to work with stakeholders from a broad range of backgrounds, at all levels of the organization

**Bonus Points**
- Personal interest and motivation for gaming
- Previous work experience in or exposure to one or more of the following sectors: gaming, consumer mobile, consumer internet and/or advertising
- Master's degree, ideally in Technology/Engineering
- related disciplines, or holding an MBA

**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, Barcelona, London, Malmö and Berlin, and offices in Malta, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, we’re on a mission to level
- up the little moments for all 243 million of our active monthly users (Q1 2023). But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes Saga and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard.

**A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes**

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

**About King**

King is the game developer behind the world
- famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top
- grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King’s games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.

**A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes**

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

**Making the World Playful**

Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences



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