Algorithms, Analysis Skills, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Business Operations, Continuous Improvement, Data Analysis, Data Management, Data Mining, Data Mining Software, Data Quality, Data Sets, Data Structures, Database Technology, Decision Support, Econometric Modeling, Inventory Planning, Leadership, Machine Learning, Needs Assessment, Network Design, Network Monitoring, Network Topology, Operational Audit, Order/Customer Fulfillment, Platform for Privacy Preferences, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Product Management, Proposal Writing, Quality Management, Reporting Dashboards, Reporting Skills, Requirements Management, Retail Operations, Root Cause Analysis, Scalable System Development, Scientific Research, Shipping/Receiving, Simulation, Software Development, Software Engineering, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Optimization, Team Player, Testing, Thought Leadership, Time Management, Trend Analysis
The Amazon Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) team works on some of the world"s most complex supply chain challenges, at Amazon scale. We understand inventory availability for the millions of items on Amazon, compute accurate delivery expectations for customer orders, and monitor fulfillment network changes to inform delivery updates and optimizations. When customers place orders, our systems utilize real-time, large-scale optimization techniques to optimally select shipping sources and consolidate multiple orders. This enables us to ensure customers receive their shipments within the promised timeframe, in an efficient manner.
Fulfillment Optimization (FO) owns products and services that plan and execute First Party (1P) and 3P fulfillment resources for the outbound fulfillment network WW. This includes designing network topology, coordinating resource planning for inventory, labor, planes and trucks, and utilizing these resources optimally by being aware of the network's true capacity, constraints, and capabilities. We provide fast, accurate and optimized delivery promises, identify the optimal fulfillment plans, and will orchestrate XXB shipments in 2025 to efficiently leverage outbound fulfillment capabilities.
The team is composed of scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers (BIE), Software Engineers, and Researchers who lead the industry in the development of innovative algorithms and strategies to maximize the long term effectiveness of Amazon's business.
The team is seeking an exemplary Business Intelligence Engineer (BIE) with broad technical skills to build analytic and reporting capabilities that enable optimization of delivery promises for our millions of customers worldwide. The ideal candidate is a highly analytical, critical thinker with advanced problem solving, data mining, and software development skills. They will enjoy working with world-class product managers, economists, research scientists, data engineers, and software developers to drive decisions across Amazon"s retail and operations teams. Successful members of this team are customer obsessed, flexible, and collaborative team players who enjoying working across functions and organizations to solve problems and get results. They ask hard questions and build scalable solutions that provide critical business insight necessary to influence decision making across retail and operations teams. They find timely answers buried in large data sets and complex systems, identify root causes, get their hands dirty building data systems and sharing insight.
To help describe some of our challenges, we created a short video about Supply Chain Optimization at Amazon - http://bit.ly/amazon-scot
Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with software development teams to implement analytics systems and data structures to support large-scale data analysis and delivery of machine learning and econometric models
- Define, develop and maintain critical business and operational reports reviewed on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
- Analyze historical data to identify trends and support decision making, including written and verbal presentation of results and recommendations
- Mine and manipulate data from database tables, simulation results, and log files
- Identify data needs and drive data quality improvement projects
- Understand the broad range of Amazon"s data resources, which to use, how, and when
- Provide thought leadership on data mining and analysis
A day in the life
- Collaborate with the Engineering and Science teams to define new product features, construct data pipelines, and test new functionalities
- Learn about new Amazon technologies and create proposals to adapt to those technologies
- Conduct deep dives into anomalies and generate insights for leadership and product management
- Use customers inputs to define new data requirements
- Explain plan-over-plan differences or discrepancies between expected and actual performance
- Maintain dashboards and reporting, and address any data quality issues that arise
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment.
The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
- Maternity and Parental Leave Options
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k) Plan
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we"d still love to hear from you!
At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you're passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
About the team
As the Fulfillment Network Planning team, we leverage big data to identify key patterns, understand root causes, and build models to fix the most impactful problems. This role is challenging yet rewarding, requiring innovative thinking, a desire to learn, and the skills to develop advanced solutions that continuously improve the customer delivery experience.
A
Amazon.com Inc
At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter
here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit
https://www.amazon.jobs/principles