Category Business Analyst, Amazon

Description

Are you customer obsessed, flexible, smart and analytical, strategic yet execution focused and passionate about e-commerce? Are you an experienced, entrepreneurial leader with a strong work ethic? If yes, this opportunity will appeal to you.
Amazon is looking for a Business Analyst for the Beauty and Softlines category team.
We are looking for customer obsessed, data driven entrepreneurs to join our growing team. Solve some of the hardest problems for our customers. If you want operate at start up speed, solve some of the hardest problems and build a service which customers love, Amazon.in might just be the place for you.

The Business Analyst is responsible for driving deep insights about relevant business area and driving continuous improvement using the analysis. The person should have a detailed understanding of a business requirement or the ability to quickly get to the root cause of a particular business issue, and draft solutions to meet requirements or resolve the root problems.

Some of the key result areas include, but not limited to:

Work closely with business managers and stakeholders to understand business issues and recommend solutions to ensure business questions are properly answered
Understand trends related to Amazon business and recommend strategies to stakeholders to help drive business growth. Reporting of key insight trends, using statistical rigor to simplify and inform the larger team of noteworthy story lines. Respond with urgency to high priority requests from senior business leaders.
Identify, develop, manage, and execute analyses to uncover areas of opportunity and present written business recommendations that will help shape the direction of the business.
Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions. Ensure data accuracy by validating data for new and existing tools. Learn and understand a broad range of Amazon’s data resources and know how, when, and which to use and which not to use.
The ideal candidate actively seeks to understand Amazon’s core business values and initiatives, and translates those into everyday practices.

Key job responsibilities
- Bachelor's degree required. BE is preferred.
- 2 - 5 years of work experience
- Exposure to data mining tools like SQL ,SAS, SPSS etc
- Deadline driven, team player, with strong customer focus.
- Must be detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow through on issues
- Experience in a highly analytical, results-oriented environment with cross functional interactions.
- Strong analytical, mediation and problem resolution skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Attention to detail and capability to work on multiple projects in parallel

Basic Qualifications

- 1+ years of data analytics or automation experience
- 1+ years of capacity planning, operations planning, business analysis or similar experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of data pipelining and extraction using SQL
- Knowledge of SQL and Excel at a moderate or advanced level
- Experience with data mining tools like SQL, SAS, SPSS, or similar

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of SQL/Python/R, scripting, MS Excel, table joins, and aggregate analytical functions

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