Business Analyst

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon India's Supply Chain & Analytics team is looking for talented Business Intelligence Engineers (BIE) who develop solutions to better manage/optimize inventory placement, while providing the best experience to our customers at the lowest possible price. As part of Amazon India's Supply Chain & Analytics, our team members have an opportunity to be on the forefront of supply chain thought leadership by working on some of the most difficult problems with some of the best research scientists, software developers, and business leaders in the industry, shaping our roadmap to drive real impact on Amazon's long-term profitability. We are new(ish) team, building new analyses from ground up, proposing new concepts and technology to meet business needs, and need several BIEs who enjoy and excel at diving into data to analyze root causes and implement long term solutions.

As a BIE within the group, you will work closely with program managers, software developers, research scientists, and product managers to analyze massive data sets, identify areas to improve, define metrics to measure and monitor programs, and most importantly work with different stakeholders to drive improvements over time. You will also work closely with internal business teams to extract or mine information from our existing systems to create new analyses, and expose data from our group to wider teams in intuitive ways. As a BIE embedded in the business team you have the opportunity to participate and shape program development as well as leverage your technical skills. This position provides opportunities to influence high visibility/high impact areas in the organization.

This position requires superior analytical thinkers, able to quickly approach large ambiguous problems and apply your technical and engineering expertise to rapidly prototype and deliver solutions. This skill also requires you to work across a variety of teams, including: transportation, operations, finance, category, delivery experience, and inventory platform (software) teams. Successful candidates must thrive in fast-paced environments which encourage collaborative and creative problem solving, be able to measure and estimate risks, constructively critique peer research, and align research focuses with the Amazon's strategic needs.

Responsibilities
· Perform complex data analysis to identify different opportunities to reduce fulfillment costs or improve CX and set priorities to improve them.
· Manage cross-functional programs to reduce fulfillment costs or improve CX.
· Design, develop and establish KPIs to monitor analysis and provide strategic insights to drive growth and performance.
· Build infrastructure and implement maintenance strategy for internal datasets to support swift analyses to answer critical business questions.
· Work with large data sets, automate data extraction, and build monitoring/reporting dashboards and high­ value, self-service automated BI solutions.
· Draft proposals for new concepts, improvement plans, 3 year strategy and outlook.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Basic Qualifications
· 2 - 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst dealing with large complex data scenarios.
· Familiarity with supply chain management concepts - planning, forecasting, optimization, and logistics - gained through work experience or graduate level education.
· Expert in data extraction experience using SQL. Strong ETL experience and basic/intermediate familiarity with Linux.
· Intermediate skills with Ruby, Perl, Python or at least one similar scripting language.
· Strong understanding of BI technologies and their application including database warehousing and dash-boarding experience.
· Experience on at least one data visualization tools (e.g. OBIEE, Tableau, QlikView)
· Strong verbal/written communication and data presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.