Sr Forecasting Analyst, Amazon Advertising

About the role

Forecast and Strategy team (F&S) Team within Amazon Advertising is looking for an experienced professional with excellent analytical skills and strong business acumen to develop and implement our demand forecasting tools and mechanisms in a fast-paced and innovative environment, at a global scale.

What you'll do

• Be responsible for modeling forecasting problems, discovering insights and identifying opportunities through the use of statistical, machine learning, algorithmic
• Need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams to analyze forecast variances, understand and mitigate variance drivers
• Build and maintain KPIs that reliably reflect forecasting and staffing accuracy, and downstream impact on the business
• Create new reporting & analytic opportunities by analyzing and understanding key planning processes
• Write and present documents up to the VP level

What you need

• 3–6 yrs of experience
• Forecasting
• Demand planning
• Machine learning
• R
• SQL
• SAS
• B.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or MBA or M.Sc or BCA or M.Tech

Good to have

• Analytics
• AWS
• Six Sigma
• Redshift
• Lean
• MATLAB