Provide business insight and reporting to key stakeholders, to both SEJ West Business Division and SEJ, including all aspects of the publishing portfolio.
Provide a direct contact with the Business Units (BU) in Square Enix, Japan, for all aspects of the business. Tracking the latest project status such as development milestones, release timings, marketing/PR activities and platform strategies.
Drive improvements through robust analysis of the business, along with available third party data/industry report, carry out trend analysis, competitor performances.
Key deliverable
- Work with Senior Business Manager to develop project forecast P&L for submissions to BU’s.
- Provide industry data/insights including NPD/GFK/Newzoo data to analyse competitor title’s performance to support multiple Square Enix West forecast scenarios.
- Frequent update, track and share the project status among the SEJ West Business Division, utilizing internal SharePoint library.
- Manage the monthly sales figures reporting to each individual BU’s.
- Work with the SEW/SEJ digital team to manage the sales promotions and price decay during the product life cycle. Obtaining approvals from SEJ.
- Manage the analysis of the digital promotion sales results and report to each BU’s project team, after the promo period.
- Manage the departmental overhead budgets and approvals, in conjunction with Finance.
- Ad hoc reporting and project work.
Desirable
- Understanding of the video games/digital business environment
- Have passion and excitement about video games
Requirements
- English & Japanese speaker
- Working experience at Japanese company
- Good project management capability, highly organized and meticulous planning
- Advanced excel, modelling and data manipulation skills
- A logical, well organised approach, as well as commitment, flexibility and self-motivation
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong team player - able to work within an interdisciplinary team and international business
- Ability to deal with the tight deadlines and multiple re-workings
- Ability to deal effectively with multiple tasks simultaneously so as to meet all deadlines
- A strong desire to add value and show initiative
- Can travel abroad when needed
Key Stakeholder:
Executive Director, Brand and Marketing Directors, Product and Brand Manager at SEE/SEA, Project Managers & Producers, Finance teams at SEA/SEE, Commercial General Managers, Local marketing teams, Digital teams, SEJ BU’s stakeholders