Planning Automation team Inventory Planning Automation
Amazon’s Inventory Planning Automation team (IPB) is looking for an experienced, passionate, and hard-working Data Scientist to join our fast paced, stimulating environment to help invent the future of retail with technology, and to turn big data into actionable insights. The IPB team is part of the Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) Team within the Operations Organization. The charter of the SCOT team is to maximize Amazon’s return on our inventory investment in terms of Free Cash Flow and customer satisfaction. We accomplish this by applying advanced statistical methods, machine learning and empirical analysis to predict and evaluate Amazon’s inventory needs. We provide data-driven recommendations to senior business leaders to optimize this critical element of Amazon’s supply chain. All this puts the Inventory Planning group at the nexus of operations, logistics, capacity planning, and our retail business teams. As a Data Scientist, you will analyze large amounts of business
· Bachelor or Master's degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Operation Research, Economics or a related quantitative field · 2+ years' of experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python, R), or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) · Experience articulating business questions and using quantitative techniques to arrive at a solution using available data · Experience in timeseries and ML-based predicitive modelling. · Excellent written and oral communication skills · Experience processing, filtering, and presenting large quantities