Commercial Analyst

Hybrid Work Model

#LI-hybrid

Job Summary:

SEGAs Commercial Strategy Team supports the SEGA business by analyzing a wealth of information to create insights for the business planning team and wider management structure. The team support internal partners across the company by answering business-related questions and informing decision-making often in fast-paced settings.

The Commercial Analyst plays a key role by providing sales forecasts and pricing analysis at the product level maximizing our sales forecast accuracy by using external and internal data streams. They collaborate with a variety of internal teams while using data and reasoning to project product demand and provide meaningful recommendations to internal stakeholders. They understand business objectives have insights into prospective customers preferences and are comfortable evaluating market data using software and statistical techniques.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Research and develop forecasts for commercial product planning
• Identify gather and analyze data from various sources to identify trends develop insights and answer business questions
• Identify key competitors and their strategies by monitoring and analyzing their activity
• Develop tools and techniques to improve forecasting processes track and report on key performance indicators
• Partner with internal and external partners (e.g. research teams studios publishing) for product and service planning
• Create detailed presentation materials detailing research forecasts and insights for internal and external parties
• Present forecasts and analyses to inform and influence project stakeholders through data-backed methodologies and convincing reasoning
• Stay up to date on market trends consumer and product research and industry best practices
• Assist with yearly comprehensive report on the gaming market
• Other duties as assigned.
• Working in-office is an essential function of this position. This requirement of face-to-face interaction is in place to ensure effective supervision collaboration and -office attendance is required for the following reasons:
  • For effective supervision of employees and our work product which includes ensuring all employees have necessary oversight of their work and access to supervisory assistance which includes meetings to review work product deadlines and status.
  • To foster communication and collaboration among team members which includes the following: allowing for spontaneous brainstorming sessions and exchanges of ideas quick access to team members to enable collaborative problem-solving and stronger cohesion among co-workers and within teams.
  • To enhance the sharing of information necessary to effective job performance and product creation.
  • To enhance understanding of our stakeholders work and business needs facilitate a more seamless and organic workflow and ultimately increase efficiency and successful outcomes.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Essential
  • Experience working in a retail or digital business analyst or forecasting role for a consumer products or services company.
  • Experience working with business teams to gather analyze and present data and insights to a variety of stakeholders
  • Experienced user of MS Office applications & data visualization tools (e.g. PowerPoint Excel Tableau)
  • Proficient at MS Excel (e.g. PivotTables Macros Advanced Functions)
  • Proven experience in developing business management reports
  • Data cleaning & database structuring/querying (SQL) skills
  • High attention to detail to project work including data inputs data validation and work output
  • High level of planning and organizational skills with ability to manage multiple projects at once
  • Proactive communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships both internally and externally
  • Thorough knowledge of or passion for learning about the video games industry current business models and consumer products or services
  • Bachelors degree in economics finance or business
• Plus if:
  • Experience working in the video game industry and/or consumer research industry
  • Experience working in an international organization with key stakeholders across multiple time zones
  • Experience in using database management tools
  • Comprehensive knowledge of statistics and experience with statistical technologies such as MATLAB and Python
  • Ability to develop query processes dashboards and other data visualizations
  • Enjoys developing and improving systems and processes