Topology Strategy Analyst, Grocery

DESCRIPTION

Are you customer obsessed, flexible, smart and analytical, strategic yet execution focused? If you're also passionate about e-commerce, experienced, and an entrepreneurial leader with a strong work ethic, this opportunity will appeal to you.

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon.com continues to grow and evolve as a world-class supply chain and logistics operation.

You should thrive and have demonstrated success in an environment which offers ambiguously defined problems, big challenges, and quick changes. You will be expected to balance detailed execution with speed and possess solid collaborative skills. You will be working in a fast-paced environment where every day brings new challenges and new opportunities.
You should have excellent business and communication skills and be able to work with business owners to:

1. Define the required analysis outputs for a range of business problems
2. Define the right inputs and methodology to use for the analysis.

The top candidate naturally dives deep to drive business through data insights and is passionate about socializing business impacts to guide the broader organization. He/She knows and loves working with business intelligence tools, can model multidimensional datasets, and can partner with business leaders to answer key business questions.

The Topology Strategy Analyst will work within Amazon's ultra-fast final mile Grocery business, helping us to create and extract meaning from large volumes of data to make the right business decisions on the coverage for each site within the EU network and support expansion or network optimization.

Keeping a department-wide view, you will focus on the highest priorities, constantly looking for scale and automation. You are analytical and creative, and you don't quit. You will lead data analytics for specific stakeholders requests and support critical network decisions for Amazon Grocery Logistics. In a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, you will be right a lot and will perform multiple large, complex, and business critical analyses.

Key job responsibilities
You will have the opportunity to display your skills in the following areas:

1. Work with Last Mile stakeholders to coordinate store P&L for expansion approval/network optimization
2. Run simulations to support topology decisions from leadership regarding our sites' coverage
3. Synthesize complex quantitative data into simple, clear and concise findings to drive business decisions
4. Simplify and reduce the manual work by automating analysis through scripts and tools such as Python and R
5. Gather and analyze information from live operations to identify opportunities to shape the topology strategy
6. Define proxy information and heuristics for data that is unknown today
7. Define parameters and success criteria for live tests to confirm/deny hypothesis in models

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
• Experience with Excel
• Experience with SQL
• Experience with data visualization using Tableau, Quicksight, or similar tools
• Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders
• Experience in financial/business analysis

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions, power pivots, etc.) and data visualization tools such as Tableau
• Experience in business or financial analysis
• Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.