Sr. Strategic Planner
Amazon
2 - 5 years
Bengaluru
Posted: 01/05/2025
Job Description
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.
Advertising Forecast and Strategy team (F
- ACTS FnS) organization owns the end
- to
- end Forecasting and Strategic planning for Advertising Trust Operations, Advertising Services and Cosworth.
We are looking for an experienced professional with excellent analytical skills and strong business acumen to develop and implement innovative Strategical Headcount Planning tools and mechanisms in a fast
- paced and innovative environment, at a global scale.
This role requires someone with strong analytic skills and business acumen who will work with stakeholders on strategic planning/projects within Amazon Advertising.
Some examples of project work may include support of long
- term Amazon Advertising site strategy; planning models development, input forecasting and general project evaluation for Amazon Advertising network cost, quality, scale, flexibility and business continuity.
The ideal candidate will have a strong analytic background that enables him/her to manage global network planning, a demonstrated ability to think broadly and strategically about Advertising initiatives and the ability to persuade executives to build consensus on objectives.
Key job responsibilities
· Leading Amazon Advertising Headcount Planning for Advertising Trust Operations
· The successful candidate will work in lock step with multiple business teams: Advertising Trust Operations, Engineering, Product Management, Science, Training, Recruitment, BIE and Finance leadership.
· Optimize headcount capacity for the business by balancing customer experience/service levels, employee experience, operational flexibility, and cost effectiveness.
· Manage the analysis of daily, weekly, and monthly reporting of key performance indicators.
· Ownership of Service Level and Occupancy goals at a WW level
· Coordination of global analytic roll
- ups in support of project work and reporting as needed.
· Create new reporting & analytic opportunities by analyzing and understanding key planning processes
· Thought leadership on integration of new products/services supported by Advertising.
· Document writing and presentations up to the director level.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions, power pivots, etc.) and data visualization tools such as Tableau experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience with Excel
- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
- Experience with SQL
- Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders
- 5+ years of relevant experience in Capacity Planning, financial/business analysis, quantitative research or analyses.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering or other business/analytical disciplines.
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- we
- hire/accommodations for more information.
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About Company
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Initially focused on selling books online, it quickly expanded into a broad range of products and services, including electronics, cloud computing (via Amazon Web Services), streaming, and artificial intelligence. Amazon has revolutionized online shopping with fast delivery, personalized recommendations, and a subscription service called Amazon Prime. It is one of the world's largest and most valuable companies, with a significant impact on retail, technology, and logistics.
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