Business Analyst, AMXL First-Mile PPT

Amazon • Nashville, TN

1d • $66,900 - $130,100

About The Position

The Production Planning Team (PPT) is seeking leaders to drive the future of labor planning for Amazon's Extra-Large Network (AMXL). The team is focused on reinventing labor planning through new automated solutions, including advanced modeling and machine learning, to enhance accuracy and efficiency. Business Analysts are crucial for converting data into actionable business insights, leveraging various data platforms and analytical tools. They are expected to build deep contextual and domain knowledge, ensure data quality, develop scalable tools, and communicate findings effectively. The ideal candidate will possess advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, a passion for delivering business insights, and strong communication abilities. They should be self-motivated, flexible, hardworking, and capable of executing high-level network decisions with significant impact. This role involves working directly with Operations stakeholders to provide qualitative and accurate labor plans for AMXL sites, utilizing coding languages like Python, SQL, HTML, Java, and R. Proficiency in these languages and a quick learning ability are essential. The position offers significant exposure to operational fulfillment and promotes career progression. The AMXL Supply Chain Execution team manages First Mile, Middle Mile, and Last Mile operations across North America, providing short to medium-term aggregate fulfillment plans for the AMXL network to enable accurate labor planning and leverage automation. The team also delivers performance metrics to network leadership, identifies risks from plan variations, and collaborates with supply chain partners to establish standard work and best practices.

Requirements

• 2+ years of Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions, power pivots, etc.) and data visualization tools such as Tableau experience
• 3+ years of business or financial analysis experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
• Experience with SQL
• Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, HTML, Java, and R, or other similar coding languages
• Ability to be a quick learner and gain additional expertise

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in business or analytical discipline
• Experience partnering with executive-level leaders to identifying and solving business issues

Responsibilities

• Work with Fulfillment Centers (FCs) and regional leadership team
• Monitor existent metrics, building new metrics, and partnering with internal teams to identify process and system improvement opportunities.
• Support cross-functional teams on the day-to-day execution of the existent program implementation.
• Deliver action plans for senior managers and directors, while being a trusted partner to these network leaders.
• Leverage central teams (i.e. S&OP, ACES, L&D) to drive process and operations execution improvements.
• Provide data management processes such as accessing raw data feeds, building queries and macros, writing VBA code, organizing data and designing reports that present status-at-a-glance visualization for business performance.
• Retrieve and analyzing large sets of data using Excel, SQL, and other data management systems.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level