Strategic Forecast & Investment Lead

Amazon; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 104,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com is seeking an experienced Finance, Forecast & Planning leader to serve as the manufacturing and financial backbone of Global Manufacturing and Distribution Services. You will own financial modeling, resource investment prioritization, and long-range planning, delivering executive visibility on ROI and savings across seven pillars.

You will partner with pillar leaders to build business cases, drive automation, and standardize reporting for senior leadership, ensuring alignment with

Qualifications

• 4+ years of program or project management experience.
• 5+ years of supply chain, forecasting, manufacturing, sourcing/procurement, or vendor management experience.
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization.
• 4+ years of data visualization and reports tools experience.

Responsibilities

• Financial Modeling & Forecasting: Build, maintain, and continuously refine financial models that project savings delivery, cost avoidance, and investment returns across all pillars within Global Manufacturing and Distribution Services.
• Resource Investment Prioritization: Develop and manage frameworks for evaluating and prioritizing resource allocation (finances, time, materials) across competing initiatives, ensuring capital and headcount are directed toward the highest-value opportunities.
• Long-Range Operational Planning: Lead annual and multi-year planning cycles, partnering with pillar leaders to build bottoms-up forecasts, set targets, and align operational roadmaps with organizational strategy.
• Performance Measurement & Reporting: Establish standardized methodologies for tracking enablement, ROI, and cost reduction performance. Create and maintain executive dashboards and reporting cadences that provide leadership with consistent, actionable visibility.
• Transformation Program Tracking: Monitor and report on the status of transformation initiatives across the organization, flagging schedule risks, budget variances, and dependency conflicts to leadership with recommended corrective actions.
• Business Case Development: Partner with pillar leaders and sourcing managers to build business cases for new investments, headcount requests, and strategic initiatives, ensuring financial rigor and alignment with organizational priorities.
• Variance Analysis & Risk Management: Conduct regular variance analysis against plan, identifying root causes for over/under-performance and developing mitigation strategies to protect savings commitments.
• Executive Communication: Prepare and deliver monthly/quarterly business reviews, savings readouts, and investment performance summaries for senior leadership (Director/VP level), translating complex financial data into clear narratives.
• Process Standardization: Drive consistency in how financial performance is measured and communicated across all seven pillars, replacing ad-hoc reporting with scalable, repeatable processes.

Skills

Program management

Supply chain / forecasting experience

Data-driven decision making

Strategic program ownership

Bachelor's degree

Process automation

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon.com is seeking an experienced Finance, Forecast & Planning leader to serve as the manufacturing and financial backbone of Global Manufacturing and Distribution Services. You will own financial modeling, resource investment prioritization, and long-range planning, delivering executive visibility on ROI and savings across seven pillars.

You will partner with pillar leaders to build business cases, drive automation, and standardize reporting for senior leadership, ensuring alignment with