Private Pricing Analytics Lead (PPAL)

Do you share a passion to make customers successful? Do you believe that a deep understanding of customer and business priorities can transform an organization? Are you excited to discover and solve thorny business challenges through data analytics and business intelligence (BI) solutions? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment working with diverse teams cutting across functions, organizations, and cultures to achieve a common goal?

The Private Pricing Analytics and Insights team is a critical part of enabling the AWS Private Pricing business to achieve the highest standards of excellence for WW Commercial Operations. This role, based in North America, will focus on Business Analytics and Business Intelligence related to Private Pricing Deals, requiring broad technical skills, strong business acumen and a deep analytical background to provide performance reporting, actionable insights and decision support. As a member of this team, you will harness your skills to understand business requirements, create performance metrics, conduct data analysis, provide insights, recommend actions, build analytical models for hypothesis testing, create forecasting models, build self-service dashboards and visualization, drive automation and process improvements, to help the Private Pricing leaders and teams to achieve their goals.

The individual must have the ability to communicate effectively across multiple technical and non-technical business units, as well as across other geographies. Successful members of this team collaborate effectively to solve data problems, implement new reporting solutions, and deliver successfully against high operational standards. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated individual that seeks to “tell the story” of the data with little direction or supervision.

Key job responsibilities
• Lead sales executive discussions to share insights, challenge status quo, and provide forward looking recommendations to enable strategic decision making and growth of Private Pricing.
• Support the development of continuously-evolving business analytics and data models, own the quantitative analysis of the performance of our sales team, customers, deal team, partners, markets, and products/services.
• Develop a deep understanding of sales metrics, reporting tools, and data structures in order to identify and drive resolution of issues, provide actionable intelligence with existing metrics or identify, develop, and propose new metrics, dashboards, scorecards or new tools.
• Develop relationships and processes with sales, finance, sales operations, and other functional teams to identify and address reporting issues.
• Manage and develop analytical tools or reports that through the automation existing inspection mechanisms such as business reviews, annual planning, and forecasting processes.
• Create operational templates and processes to compile and standardize disparate information that drive standardized reporting and metrics tracking.
• Generate ad-hoc analysis and reports with actionable recommendations based on the needs of the stakeholders, through ad-hoc data retrieval and analysis from data management systems,
• Create new mechanisms and business processes that simplifies, standardizes and enables operational excellence.

About the team
The Private Pricing Analytics and Insights team is a critical part of enabling the AWS Private Pricing business to achieve the highest standards of excellence for WW Commercial Operations.

The Private Pricing team is instrumental in driving deal strategy, structuring, negotiations, and execution of private deals. Private Pricing deals consist of large, strategic, or highly competitive commercial deals.

Diverse Experiences
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Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years experience of analyzing and interpreting data with Redshift, Oracle, NoSQL etc.
- 5+ years experience with data visualization using Tableau, QuickSight, or similar tools
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience in Statistical Analysis packages such as R, SAS and Matlab
- Experience using SQL to pull data from a database or data warehouse and scripting experience (Python) to process data for modeling

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in strategy, operations, project/program management and leading process improvements
- Proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
- Possess an aptitude for continuous innovation and creativity to develop solutions rapidly and iteratively.
- Experience with AWS solutions such as EC2, DynamoDB, S3, and Redshift
- Experience in data mining, ETL, etc. and using databases in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets
- Experience in the application of GenAI technologies to drive operational efficiencies and speed to insights

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.

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.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $117,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $202,800/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.