Business Intelligence Engineer, Forecasting & Labs Analytics

Amazon has the world’s most complex supply chain: we fulfill global demand for hundreds of millions of products at lightning fast delivery speeds. We need your skills to optimize our supply chain, with the end goal of delighting our customers. A core part of the supply chain operations is Demand Forecasting: We forecast the demand of tens of millions of products. These forecasts are used to make many decisions, such as automatically order hundreds of millions worth of inventory, decide where to place that inventory, and establish labor plans for hundreds of warehouses.

We need a creative, smart and enthusiastic Business Intelligence Engineer. Your mission will be to improve forecast accuracy and enable partner teams and customers to optimize supply chain decisions. You will do this by detecting, diagnosing and correcting forecast problems and generating metrics and insights. You will have the resources and tools to help you deliver this mission - support from partner teams like Data Engineering/Data Science/Program, rich datasets and tools like AWS Redshift and Tableau.

Key job responsibilities
Analytics & Insights
- Lead projects using data modeling, and statistical analysis best practices to create reporting and give insight to the forecast against large, multi-dimensional datasets from multiple sources
- Direct the design and implementation of analytics solutions for new product initiatives
- Ensure quality and consistency of analytical outputs across team deliverables
- Build tools to analyze large amounts of data that uncover forecasting issues and convey insights which highlight forecast performance and explain variance
- Oversee the development and maintenance of recurring reporting frameworks

Product Development Support
- Partner with product, science, and engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle to define success metrics and measurement approaches
- Guide analytics strategy during project entitlement phases

Business Partnership
- Translate complex analytical findings into actionable business recommendations
- Build and maintain relationships with cross-functional stakeholders

Basic qualifications

- 5+ years of SQL experience
- 5+ years of professional or military experience
- Experience programming to extract, transform and clean large (multi-TB) data sets
- Experience in scripting for automation (e.g. Python) and advanced SQL skills.
- Experience with AWS technologies
- Experience with theory and practice of information retrieval, data science, machine learning and data mining
- Experience with theory and practice of design of experiments and statistical analysis of results

Preferred qualifications

- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate between data and business needs
- Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Bellevue - 130,400.00 - 176,300.00 USD annually