DESCRIPTION

Job summary
Amazon.com strives to be Earth’s most customer – centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want – low prices, vast selection, and convenience – Amazon.com continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. Amazon’s evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company’s DNA. The world’s brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world.

Key job responsibilities
Overview of the role

The Business research Analyst will be responsible for continuous improvement projects across the RBS teams leading to each of its delivery levers. The long-term goal of Research analyst (RA) role is to eliminate Defects and automate qualifying tasks. Secondary goals is to improve the vendor or customer experience, and to enhance GMS/ FCF. This will require collaboration with local and global teams, which have process and technical expertise. Therefore, RA should be a self-starter who is passionate about discovering and solving complicated problems, learning complex systems, working with numbers, and organizing and communicating data and reports. RA should works across team(s) and Ops organization at country, regional and/or cross regional level to drive improvements and enablers to implement solutions for customer, cost savings in process workflow, systems configuration and performance metrics. Leads projects and opportunities across the Operations (FCs, Sortation, logistic centres, Supply Chain, Transportation, Engineering …) that are business critical, and may be global in nature. RA should perform Big data analysis to identify the defects patterns/process gaps and come up with long term solutions to eliminate the defects/issues. RA should Writes clear and detailed functional specifications based on business requirements as well as writes and reviews business cases.

Responsibilities Include:
Works across team(s) and Ops organization at country, regional and/or cross regional level to drive improvements and enables to implement solutions for customer, cost savings in process workflow, systems configuration and performance metrics. Leads projects and opportunities across the Operations (FCs, Sortation, logistic centers, Supply Chain, Transportation, Engineering …) that are business critical, and may be global in nature.

• Leads from medium to large complex, cross-functional strategic projects and opportunities.
• Prioritizes projects and feature sets, evaluate and set stakeholders expectations for Amazon’s marketplace: country, regional and/ or cross regional level.
• Writes clear and detailed functional specifications based on business requirements as well as writes and reviews business cases.
• Applies rigorous approach to problem solving.
• Highly analytical skills needed to interpret large data sets.
• Performs root cause analysis by understand the data need, get data / pull the data and analyze it to form the hypothesis and validate it using data.
• Find the scalable solution for business problem by executing pilots and build Deterministic and ML model (plug and play on readymade ML models and using python skills).
• Structures and develops implementation plans and works with Ops leaders to pilot and test new solutions and then roll-out across the broader Ops organization at country/cross-country and/or cross regional level.
• Credible business partner to Amazon’s Operations network.
• Provides technical/operational guidance to the teams, managers, and field personnel on their projects or part of the medium to large project and processes.

About the team
The RBS group in Chennai is an integral part of Amazon online product lifecycle and buying operations. The team is designed to ensure Amazon remains competitive in the online retail space with the best price, wide selection and good product information. The team’s primary role is to create and enhance retail selection on the worldwide Amazon online catalog. The tasks handled by this group have a direct impact on customer buying decisions and online user experience.

As a Business Research Analyst with RBS, you will work with product, technology and operations teams to drive complex data and trend analyses to root cause issues and propose ways to reduce concessions, thereby contributing to improved customer experience on Amazon. You will also be responsible for identifying and driving new opportunities based on customer and business data and measuring the performance of the same.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1+ years of experience in financial/business analysis
Experience with SQL or ETL
Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights

• 1+ years of experience in financial/business analysis
• Experience with SQL or ETL
• Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
• At least 24 months and above of prior work experience. Minimum 1Year relevant experience on analytics and delivering project using ML and Python skills.
• Strong analytical skills – has ability to ask right questions, analyze data, draws conclusion by making appropriate assumptions
• Operate in a fast-moving and ambiguous environment and take ownership of achieving business objectives.
• Organization skills – demonstrated ability to work independently to make complex investigations and Dealing with Ambiguity
• Communication skills – ability to communicate (written and spoken) in English.
• Ability to communicate complex technical problems in simple plain stories
• Ability to present information professionally & concisely with supporting data, conduct root cause analysis using data, provide recommendations for solutions and action plans based on deep-dive outcomes to eliminate defects.
• Work effectively & independently in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
• Ability to engage with cross-functional teams and gather project/program requirements
• Outstanding attention to detail; Exceptional problem solving skills
• Experience in modeling complex business scenarios

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proficiency in SQL and Advanced Excel (Array and Statistical formulas)
• Able to produce data. Understands SQL.
• Familiar with systems, scripting – depending on the level of experience.
• Ability to use ML models to build scalable solutions
• Proficiency in Python
• NLP & Text Processing
• Understanding of visualization tools such as Tableau
• Experience of managing Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) jobs
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or related field
• Automate the report generation process though use of tools and programing techniques: such as SQL, SAS, DW concepts & advanced Excel.
• Mine Data Warehousing (DW) platforms