Forecasting Manager, Amazon Advertising

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Forecasting Manager to enhance their advertising operations through innovative forecasting tools and statistical analysis. This pivotal role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver accurate forecasts that drive operational efficiencies and improve the bottom line. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, a solid understanding of statistical modeling, and the ability to communicate insights effectively to diverse audiences. Join a dynamic environment where your contributions will have a significant impact on the success of advertising strategies globally, and help shape the future of customer-centric advertising solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in forecasting or business analysis roles.
• Strong experience with statistical modeling and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Produce Long Range and Short Range forecasts for business KPIs.
• Design and implement innovative forecasting tools and mechanisms.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Statistical Analysis

Business Acumen

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or related field

MBA or Master’s degree in relevant disciplines

Tools

SQL

R

Python

AWS (Redshift, S3)

Job description

Job ID: 2861439 | Amazon.com Services LLC - A57

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. This role can be based in Seattle or New York.

The Forecast and Strategy team (F&S) within Amazon Advertising is looking for an experienced professional with excellent analytical skills and strong business acumen to develop and implement our demand forecasting tools and mechanisms in a fast-paced and innovative environment, at a global scale.

As a Forecasting Manager, you will be responsible for modeling forecasting problems, discovering insights, and identifying opportunities through the use of statistical, machine learning, algorithmic, data mining, and visualization techniques which you will implement and enhance.

You will need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams to analyze forecast variances, understand and mitigate variance drivers, identify opportunities to improve operational efficiencies, and deliver successfully against high organizational standards. You should be able to apply a breadth of tools, data sources, and analytical techniques to answer a wide range of high-impact business questions and present the insights in a concise and effective manner. Additionally, you should be an effective communicator capable of independently driving issues to resolution and communicating insights to non-technical audiences. This is a high impact role with goals that directly impacts the bottom line of the business. Accurate forecasts drive improvements in cost and quality of our advertising operations on a global scale.

Key Job Responsibilities

1. Produce and communicate Long Range and Short Range forecasts for a variety of business-oriented KPIs, ingested by Planners, Finance managers, Program managers, and Operations.
2. Design, build, and implement innovative forecasting tools and mechanisms, to create a reliable and effective short and long-term forecast for a wide range of Amazon Ads departments.
3. Build and maintain KPIs that reliably reflect forecasting accuracy, and downstream impact on the business.
4. Create new reporting & analytic opportunities by analyzing and understanding key planning processes.
5. Thought leadership on integration of new products/services supported by Advertising.
6. Write and present documents up to the VP level.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree in Business, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related field.
2. 5+ years of experience as a Forecaster, business analyst, BIE, or related positions.
3. Experience with statistical analysis and modeling.
4. Experience with SQL and one or more of the statistical modeling languages/toolboxes (R, SAS, SPSS, Matlab, or Python).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. MBA or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or other business/analytical disciplines.
2. Experience in forecasting, time-series, and multivariate regression.
3. Combination of technical skills and business savvy to interface with all levels and disciplines across the organization.
4. Proven track record of dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering results in a dynamic environment.
5. Experience using AWS technologies such as Redshift, S3, etc.
6. Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
7. Natural curiosity and desire to learn.

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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.