Senior Growth Analyst

Skillsearch Limited; Royal Leamington Spa; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Skillsearch Limited is seeking a Senior Growth Analyst to drive growth and performance across a portfolio of mobile games. You will own forecasting models, dashboards, and ROAS analyses, partnering with Growth, Product, and UA teams to optimize investment and outcomes.

The role blends technical analytics with commercial thinking, delivering actionable insights that impact revenue and future growth across the business.

Qualifications

• Several years of analytics, growth analytics or data analysis experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop automated reporting and monitoring systems across key business metrics.
• Build, maintain and improve LTV models and forecasting methodologies.
• Support User Acquisition analytics and investment planning with robust insights.
• Identify opportunities and quantify commercial impact across the portfolio.
• Design and evaluate tests and experiments to drive performance.
• Translate marketing performance data into actionable recommendations.
• Present insights clearly to stakeholders and influence decisions.

Skills

SQL

Python/R

Forecasting models

LTV forecasting

Cohort analysis

ROAS modelling

Retention analysis

Funnel analysis

Revenue analytics

Big data

Job description

Are you the kind of analyst who spots a trend before anyone else, quantifies its impact and turns it into a recommendation that drives real business results?

We're looking for a Senior Growth Analyst / Senior Data Analyst to support the growth and performance of a portfolio of successful mobile games. This is a highly commercial analytics role focused on identifying opportunities, building forecasting models and providing the insights that drive user acquisition, product and revenue decisions.

You'll work at the heart of Growth, Product and UA, helping the business understand what's happening, why it's happening and what to do next.

About The Role

As a Senior Growth Analyst, you'll act as the analytical engine behind key commercial decisions across the portfolio.

You'll build and maintain forecasting models, design monitoring systems, identify growth opportunities and ensure stakeholders have a clear understanding of the factors driving business performance. Rather than simply reporting numbers, you'll provide actionable insight that influences investment decisions, product strategy and acquisition planning.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining technical analytical skills with commercial thinking and wants their work to have a direct impact on revenue and growth.

What You'll Do

Performance Monitoring & Insights

• Develop automated reporting and monitoring systems across key business metrics.
• Create early-warning systems that identify changes in:
  • Revenue
  • User acquisition performance
  • ROAS
  • Retention
  • Player behaviour
• Surface emerging risks and opportunities before they materially impact performance.
• Build dashboards and reporting tools that provide stakeholders with clear visibility into business performance.

Forecasting & Commercial Modelling

• Build, maintain and improve player lifetime value (LTV) models.
• Develop forecasting methodologies that support investment decisions.
• Create and refine ROAS and payback models.
• Support budgeting, scaling and portfolio allocation decisions with robust forecasting frameworks.
• Continuously improve model accuracy through validation and iteration.

User Acquisition Analytics

• Partner closely with User Acquisition teams to help optimise marketing investment.
• Identify opportunities to improve acquisition efficiency across channels and products.
• Evaluate campaign performance and provide actionable recommendations.
• Support target setting and investment planning for growth initiatives.
• Analyse attribution and acquisition performance data.

Opportunity Identification

• Investigate performance changes across the portfolio.
• Diagnose root causes behind fluctuations in key metrics.
• Quantify commercial impact.
• Present recommendations with clear rationale and expected outcomes.
• Help prioritise opportunities based on potential return.

Experimentation & Measurement

• Support the design and evaluation of tests and experiments.
• Apply statistical methods to assess performance improvements and business impact.
• Establish measurement frameworks that help teams learn from every initiative.
• Work closely with Product, Growth and Creative teams to assess success metrics and outcomes.

Creative & Marketing Analytics

• Support creative testing initiatives through analysis and reporting.
• Build dashboards that enable teams to identify winning creative concepts faster.
• Help improve testing methodologies and performance tracking.
• Translate marketing performance data into practical recommendations.

Stakeholder Communication

• Present insights clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Influence decisions through evidence-based recommendations.
• Translate complex datasets into understandable business narratives.
• Help leadership teams make informed commercial decisions.

What You'll Own

Portfolio Performance Insight

You will be responsible for helping the business understand and act on performance signals across the portfolio.

This includes:

• Identifying opportunities and risks early.
• Maintaining accurate forecasting models.
• Providing commercial recommendations.
• Improving visibility across product and marketing performance.
• Supporting data-driven decision-making across Growth and Product functions.

Success In This Role

Success will be measured through:

• Accuracy and reliability of LTV forecasting models.
• Speed and effectiveness of identifying performance changes.
• Commercial value generated from recommendations.
• Adoption and usefulness of monitoring systems and dashboards.
• Quality of business insights provided to stakeholders.
• Measurable impact on growth, acquisition and product performance.

What We're Looking For

Essential Experience

Several years of experience in analytics, growth analytics or data analysis.

• Experience within:
  • Mobile gaming
  • Mobile applications
  • Consumer digital products
  • Performance marketing businesses
• Proven experience supporting commercial decision-making through analytics.
• Experience working with paid user acquisition data and growth metrics.

Technical Skills

• Strong SQL skills.
• Strong Python or R experience.
• Experience developing predictive and forecasting models.
• Strong analytical and statistical foundations.
• Experience working with large datasets and complex data environments.
• Advanced dashboarding and reporting capabilities.

Analytical Expertise

• Hands-on experience with:
  • LTV forecasting
  • Cohort analysis
  • ROAS modelling
  • Retention analysis
  • Funnel analysis
  • Revenue analytics
• Strong understanding of experimentation frameworks and statistical testing.
• Ability to translate analysis into business recommendations.

Commercial Mindset

• Strong business and commercial awareness.
• Ability to assess the financial impact of opportunities and risks.
• Comfortable making recommendations rather than simply reporting findings.
• Experience supporting growth, product or marketing decision-making.

Communication Skills

• Ability to explain complex analytical concepts clearly.
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills.
• Comfortable working with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing capabilities.

Desirable Experience

• Experience building automated monitoring and alerting systems.
• Anomaly detection and predictive analytics experience.
• Mobile attribution platform experience.
• Marketing performance analytics expertise.
• Mobile gaming industry experience.
• Experience supporting User Acquisition teams.
• Knowledge of ad network and advertising platform data.

Why Join?

• Play a key role in shaping growth and investment decisions across a successful games portfolio.
• Work closely with Product, Growth and User Acquisition teams.
• Build models and insights that directly influence commercial performance.
• Operate in a highly analytical, experimentation-driven culture.
• Significant ownership and visibility across the business.
• Opportunity to work on challenging analytical problems with measurable impact.

Location: Lymington Spa, UK
Salary Range:£60,000-£90,000 GBP per annum

If you're an analytically minded problem-solver who enjoys turning data into strategy, predictions and commercial outcomes, we'd love to hear from you.