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Have you ever placed an order on Amazon and wondered how it got to you- or how it got to you so fast? Do you get excited thinking about the data and technology that power complex networks and would like to build data products enabling their growth?

Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) connects our customers and our shippers. We combine people, technology and products to deliver for our customers at the lowest possible cost. We are a technology company that executes transportation, and we get to do it all at a scale that nobody has ever seen!

We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join our team specializing in the development of data products (source of truth tables, reporting, visualizations, metrics) for internal stakeholder and customer consumption. We own the metrics for truckload and container fill-rate along with the metrics for the root causes driving their efficiency. We need you to design data sets, create pipelines, documentation and leverage your statistics knowledge to perform sensitivity analysis. The insights we produce drive change and value through the entire scale of Amazon’s supply chain.

This position has the option to sit out of one of the following locations: Bellevue, Nashville, Atlanta, or Dallas.

Key job responsibilities
– Create insightful recommendations by applying your statistics, analytical and business skills to complex problems.
– Use insights to challenge, guide and illuminate our product strategy which directly influences what we build for customers.
– Interface with Operations, Product, Program and Finance stakeholders, gathering requirements and delivering end-to-end BI solutions
– Model data and metadata to support ad-hoc and pre-built reporting
– Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions
– Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation
– Translate ambiguous business problem statements into actionable analytical solutions, build metrics that quantify the impact of our work
– Analyze and solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context
– Learn and understand a broad range of Amazon’s data resources and know when, how, and which to use
– Keep up to date with advances in big data technologies and run pilots to design the data architecture to scale with the increased data volume using AWS services
– Continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service support for datasets
– Communicate verbally and in writing to business customers and leadership team with various levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our systems, as well as sharing insights and recommendations

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
– 3+ years of writing SQL queries and creating business intelligence reports using Tableau, Power BI experience
– Bachelor’s degree
– Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
– Experience with Excel
– Experience with SQL
– Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– MBA

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $106,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

USA, TN, Nashville