Job Description
Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon websites and wondered how it got delivered to you so fast, and what kinds of systems & processes are running behind the scenes to power the whole operation? If so, this role is for you.
Job ID: 2812769 | Amazon Services Europe SARL (LU)
The role: Principal, Regionalization, Long-term planning
You will be responsible for driving all aspects of the Regionalization roadmap, from Search optimization, Inventory Placement, Promise to Connectivity and Network Planning to drive end-to-end savings across EU. This is a role for an exceptionally talented person, with high energy and courage, passionate about delivering concrete improvement for our customers, and that want to achieve that using data.
The role includes 60% of stakeholder/project management and 40% analytical activities:
Innovation & Stakeholder/Project management
- Use and share your insights with partner teams, to influence/build a roadmap of project to accelerate speed of deliveries in your country
- For the most complex and ambitious opportunities, quickly launch new pilots, and build scale-up business case with benefits, bottlenecks, risks and resources required
- For the algorithmic opportunities, work with teams of software developers and research scientists to design the next round of software innovation
- Lead regular business review with partner teams to monitor the progress of projects in the roadmap. Help into removing bottlenecks
- Consolidate progress into crisp and concise data-driven status updates. You will own reporting to Amazon senior leadership (VP-level).
Data Analytics/Science
- Deep dive complex data to uncover actionable insights for known and unknown problems
- Good expertise with financials modelling (P&L, cashflow, mix/rate)
About the team
- Significant experience in an analytical fields
- Significant experience in a project/program management role
- Ability and strong willingness to use data to answer first time asked questions, and solve large-scale ambiguous problems.
- Ability to lead and structure projects, in particular liaising and collaborating with internal partners to influence direction and roadmaps, despite competing priorities
- Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, in particular the ability to synthesize clearly complex issues
- An entrepreneurial mindset, with the tenacity to develop ideas independently and thrive in fast-paced environment
- Candidates must be able to think and operate at all levels (both strategically and tactically)
- Basic SQL knowledge
- English conversational language is required
- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- Experience in an analytical field
- Ability and strong willingness to use data to answer first time asked questions, and solve large-scale ambiguous problems.
- Ability to lead and structure projects, in particular liaising and collaborating with internal partners to influence direction and roadmaps, despite competing priorities
- Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, in particular the ability to synthetize clearly complex issues
- An entrepreneurial mindset, with the tenacity to develop ideas independently and thrive in fast-paced environment
- Strong knowledge of SQL is mandatory
Preferred qualifications
- Expert in SQL/Redshift is preferred
- Ability to progress autonomously in ambiguous environment