For more than 11 years Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 100 fully featured services to millions of active customers around the world—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—to power their infrastructure. The AWS Global Business Innovation to Scale (GBITS) organization collaborates with, and supports, partners and their customers in their journey to AWS. Would you like to be part of a team that is redefining the IT industry? AWS is looking for a highly motivated and deeply analytical Sr. Strategy and Planning builder.
In this role, you will support GBITS in evaluating performance against goals, opportunities for growth, areas to invest, and success factors of new initiatives, utilizing various CRM tools to derive well-vetted analysis, and other ad-hoc requests and analysis as needed. You will identify areas of optimization to benefit multiple initiatives. Additionally, you will support the day-to-day execution of the business across multiple partner-facing growth initiatives and experiments.
You will need to have the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with internal end-users and cross-functional data teams to solve problems, design and implement new reporting solutions, and deliver successfully against high standards. You will have a talent for deriving success metrics in new spaces. You should have a proven work ethic that drives the desired results.
In this role, you will be a key member of the GBITS business team ensuring the GBITS leadership team has the necessary information to operate and execute efficiently. You will provide reporting and dashboards to enable informed and insightful business influencing decisions. You will analyze initiatives and processes and provide recommendations for improvement. You will build scalable mechanisms to support business and program operation processes. You will have oral and written communication skills enabling you to dive deep into the data to find answers, and to summarize the data into a logical analysis that ensures all stakeholders are informed.
Key job responsibilities
Drive the evolution and enhancement of operations tools and applications, develop key partner reporting systems/processes required to meet the rapid growth of the business and achieve market development objectives.
Collaborate with Business Partners to develop automation and enhancement of regular reporting for the broader business.
Manage the development of continuously-evolving forecast models and methodologies, supporting the quantitative analysis of the performance of our partner teams and internal stakeholders.
Develop relationships and partner with finance, HR, sales operations, and other stakeholders to identify and address reporting issues
Identify reporting issues, gaps in processes, and drive timely resolution.
Conduct ad-hoc analysis, and support related projects as needed.
Conduct sophisticated and creative analysis of complex data and translate the results into actionable deliverables, messages, and presentations.
About the team
Why AWS
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
- Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements
- 7+ years of experience in sales, strategy, business operations, sales operations, program operations, or similar role in a corporate environment supporting a global hi-tech or global system integrator organization
- Experience defining, refining, and implementing processes, procedures, and policies
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite including advanced Excel
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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 $133,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $220,200/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.