Senior Associate, Corporate Strategy
The Senior Associate, Group Strategy plays a critical role in delivering Entain's strategic agenda by leading key workstreams across high-impact projects. This role involves solving complex business problems, developing actionable insights, and shaping strategic recommendations that influence the future direction of the organisation.
Reporting to the Head of Group Strategy, the individual works within the Group Strategy team, partnering with senior leaders across the business to evaluate growth opportunities, support strategic decision-making, and drive key corporate initiatives. The team works across areas including corporate strategy, M&A, market expansion, partnerships, and long-term value creation, combining rigorous analysis with clear recommendations to deliver tangible business impact.
- Own and deliver analytical workstreams end-to-end, structuring complex business problems and generating actionable, data-driven insights.
- Conduct and synthesise analysis across markets, customers, competitors, and financial performance to inform strategic recommendations and business decisions.
- Develop robust business cases to support M&A opportunities, partnerships, investment decisions, and growth initiatives.
- Create high-quality presentations and strategic materials that communicate clear, compelling narratives to senior stakeholders and executive leadership teams.
- Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to challenge assumptions, refine analyses, and align on strategic recommendations and outcomes.
- Demonstrable experience (2-3 years) in corporate strategy, strategy consulting, investment banking, or a related analytical field (required)
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to structure and solve complex, ambiguous problems (required)
- Proven experience conducting and synthesising complex analysis into actionable insights (required)
- Experience developing business cases, market assessments, and strategic evaluations (e.g. M&A, partnerships, growth initiatives) (required)
- Strong communication skills, with experience producing compelling, executive-level materials (required)
- Ability to engage and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders (required)
- Bachelor's degree (required)
- MBA or relevant graduate degree (preferred)
- A regular bonus and great pension.
- 25 days annual leave and all Bank holidays.
- Extra paid leave, including wellbeing and development days.
- Life assurance and Income Protection.
- Private healthcare and wellbeing support.
- A stake in Entain's success through its ShareSave scheme.
Entain is one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming entertainment groups and a FTSE 100 company. Formed when GVC Holdings rebranded as Entain in December 2020, its brands trace their history back to the 1880s and include bwin, Coral, Foxy, Gala, Ladbrokes and partypoker. Through its joint venture with MGM Resorts International, it powers BetMGM in the United States with its proprietary technology. Headquartered in London, Entain employs over 30,000 people with offices across 19 countries.