Strategic Planning Manager, Amazon Advertising

Amazon • New York, NY

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About The Position

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 Services and
Cosworth teams.

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; capacity planning models and dashboards 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics/Statistics/Computer Science/Engineering/Economics
• 3+ years of professional experience
• Experience working with databases and SQL
• Experience using Excel at an advanced level including practical knowledge of VBA/macros and advanced Excel functions
• 3+ years of supply chain management, production planning, capacity planning or manufacturing operations experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience utilizing R or Python

Responsibilities

• Leading Amazon Advertising Headcount Planning initiatives and strategy.
• The successful candidate will work in lock step with multiple business teams: Campaign management, Scaled Design, Advertising Operations and QA organizations, Program Management, Training, Recruitment 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.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager