Forecasting Manager, Amazon Advertising

Amazon Advertising is the earth's most customer centric advertising program and is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for brand advertisers, agencies, authors, and entrepreneurs. Our ad solutions-including sponsored, display, video, and custom ads-leverage Amazon's innovations and insights to find, attract, and engage intended audiences throughout their daily journeys, helping advertisers build brand awareness, increase product sales, and more. This role can be based in Seattle or New York.

Forecast and Strategy team (F&S) Team within Amazon Advertising is looking for an experienced professional with excellent analytical skills and strong business acumen to develop and implement our demand forecasting and headcount planning tools and mechanisms in a fast-paced and innovative environment, at a global scale.

As a Forecasting Manager, you will be responsible for modeling forecasting problems leveraging advanced statistical models, discovering insights and identifying opportunities through the use of statistical, machine learning, algorithmic, data mining and visualization techniques which you will implement and enhance through automation.

You will need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams to analyze forecast variances, understand and mitigate variance drivers, identify opportunities to improve operational efficiencies, derive the strategical staffing plans (hiring and site strategy) and deliver successfully against high organizational standards. You should be able to apply a breadth of tools, data sources and analytical techniques to answer a wide range of high-impact business questions and present the insights in concise and effective manner. Additionally, you should be an effective communicator capable of independently driving issues to resolution and communicating insights to non-technical audiences. This is a high impact role with goals that directly impacts the bottom line of the business. Accurate forecasts drive improvements in cost and quality of our advertising operations on a global scale.

Key job responsibilities

• Produce and communicate Long Range and Short Range forecasts for a variety of business oriented KPIs, ingested by Planners, Finance managers, Program managers and Operations.
• Produce strategical staffing plans, including hiring plans and site strategy models, and communicate those plans to Operations leaders.
• Design, build and implement innovative forecasting and planning tools and mechanisms, to create a reliable and effective short and long term forecast for a wide range of Amazon Ads departments.
• Build and maintain KPIs that reliably reflect forecasting accuracy, and downstream impact on the business.
• Create new reporting & analytic opportunities by analyzing and understanding key planning processes
• Thought leadership on integration of new products/services supported by Advertising.
• Write and present documents up to the VP level.