Sun International·Gauteng, south-africa·Full Time·Internship
Human ResourcesFull TimeInternship
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Job Purpose:
The Commercial Specialist will be responsible for delivering market intelligence, analytical insight, and feasibility support that enables the identification, evaluation, and execution of strategic growth opportunities across existing and new markets within the online gaming operation.
The role integrates internal and external data analysis, scenario planning, and structured research to inform business cases, market entry assessments, and investment decisions.
Job Scope:
Collect, consolidate and analyse external market data on competitors, pricing, customer behaviour, industry trends, and regulatory, economic and commercial developments impacting market opportunities
Maintain structured market intelligence repositories, research libraries and competitor benchmarking frameworks
Conduct competitor benchmarking, market analysis and research on market entry approaches, operating models and industry case studies to identify trends, risks and opportunities
Analyse internal business intelligence and external datasets to identify customer, market and operational trends, risks and opportunities
Develop data-driven insights, dashboards, visualisations, reports and analytical packs to support executive decision-making and governance forums
Support the evaluation of new market, product and strategic opportunities through structured analysis, feasibility assessments and multi-dimensional (commercial, operational, financial and regulatory) evaluation
Build, maintain and update financial and analytical models including assumptions, scenarios, sensitivity analysis, revenue projections, cost estimates and ROI calculations
Compile feasibility assessment documentation and validate key assumptions supporting strategic recommendations, business cases and implementation planning
Support preparation of business cases, investment committee submissions and decision-support documentation through analytical inputs and quantitative evidence
Provide analytical inputs to support market entry assessments, expansion strategies and implementation planning
Support implementation readiness and execution of approved initiatives by identifying operational dependencies, data requirements, delivery considerations and translating analysis into actionable requirements for cross-functional teams
Evaluate operational models, products, technologies and solutions that enable growth and market expansion
Prepare structured reports, presentations and management updates for executive and governance forums
Ensure accuracy, consistency, traceability and version control of all data, models and analytical outputs, maintaining supporting documentation and evidence repositories for strategic initiatives
Liaise and coordinate with Business Intelligence, Finance, Product, Operations, Compliance and other stakeholders to gather data, validate assumptions and support analytical and execution requirements
Assist in preparing executive updates, progress reports and supporting analyses for strategic initiatives
Build effective working relationships across internal stakeholders to enable effective data gathering, insight generation and execution support
Job Requirements
Qualification:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Data Analytics, or a related field
Experience:
8-10 years' experience in data analysis, market research, business analysis, financial analysis or strategy support
Experience in a regulated industry (gaming, betting, financial services, telecoms or similar) is advantageous.
Exposure to market research, competitor analysis or business intelligence environments is beneficial