Head of Strategy Farm Heroes Saga

**Craft**:
Data, Analytics & Strategy

King is known for its captivating games that bring moments of magic to players globally. Our mission - Making the World Playful - pushes us to create new experiences and elevate the gaming experience. We design games for everyone, everywhere, and of all backgrounds Our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for one another, and love for our players help us take the art and science of gaming to the next level.

Farm Heroes Saga (FHS) is one of King’s beloved casual games, with over 5 million daily players, and we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Head of Strategy to join FHS who will play an instrumental role in shaping FHS's strategic path, roadmap and in making critically important decisions for the game.

In this newly created role you will partner with Farm’ leadership team (FLT) to develop a compelling and cohesive vision for FHS, focused on evolving and scaling the product and inspiring our teams to focus on enhancing our players’ experience. Your mission - to architect, drive, and coordinate initiatives that align with Farm Heroes Saga's mission and business objectives focusing on creating, developing and communicating the strategy to grow the game.

Leading on creating a winning strategy for a top
- tier game, you will shape and drive key initiatives that contribute to the growth and evolution of FHS and have a significant impact on the success of the game. This includes identifying, defining, and delivering on a strategy that enables FHS to expand its audience, deepen its player engagement and increase player investment.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Lead the creation of an overarching vision and strategy for FHS as a game as well as an organisation. This includes creating, implementing and overseeing strategic plans that resonate with FHS's overarching goals.
- Guide the development of FHS’ product strategy, including building long
- term plans for the game’s and business strategies while ensuring alignment
- Regularly assess progress and make adjustments as necessary to ensure strategies are realized successfully.
- Coach, encourage and challenge leaders across FHS to develop and deliver compelling strategies for their areas of responsibility
- Drive high
- quality thinking and communication in each department/area/craft, and in the overall integration of the all the parts comprising the strategy
- Distill a clear and concise strategy summary for the wider team and concerned parties
- Gather, evaluate and, as appropriate, integrate feedback of key stakeholders and decision makers outside FHS
- Utilise data and analytics to inform business decisions, identify growth opportunities, and evaluate the effectiveness of critical initiatives. Your insights will guide business choices and shape FHS's direction.
- Ensure the strategy is consistently and coherently followed and evolved through related processes - e.g. OKRs, goal
- setting, internal and external reporting. Track, evaluate and report on progress vs. the strategy (e.g. KTRs, OKRs, PPPs, and/or similar)
- Identify remedy gaps in understanding, execution, evaluation and communication of the strategy across FHS and King
- Work independently with team members within FHS and the broader King organisation to align planning, execution, develop concrete recommendations, and drive the implementation of initiatives

**Required Skills & Experience**:

- Established experience working in a strategy role with a focus in consumer products gained from management consultancy within product and or consumer/user experience, ideally in the media, entertainment, technology or similar space
- Strategic mentality combined with delivery and operational effectiveness. You think creatively, frame and structure complex problems, and develop cost
- benefit analysis
- Proficiency in using data analytics to drive strategic decision
- making with exceptional analytical thinking, and problem
- solving skills
- Impeccable written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills
- A consistent track record of leading and delivering complex and cross functional strategy projects
- Proven ability to influence executives at the highest level within a fast
- moving organization
- Experience in coaching teams to turn strategic plans into operational initiatives
- A humble and positive outlook, leading from the front but also bringing people along on the journey
- Proven track record to operate effectively in cross
- functional settings - ability to work with stakeholders from a broad range of backgrounds, at all levels of the organization

**Tasty Bonus**:

- 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
- Proven experience in a strategic leadership role, preferably within the gaming industry

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