Job opening - Operations Research Scientist at Amazon (Seattle, WA)

The world-wide Inventory Planning and Control (IPC) group is looking for a passionate, talented and inventive Operations Research Scientist who is comfortable communicating to senior leaders to join the team.

As a member of the IPC team you will be responsible for coming up with creative strategies to optimize Amazon's inventory in order to achieve the best experience for our customers at the lowest cost. This position will focus on identifying and analyzing opportunities to improve simulation methods in order to improve accuracy of short and long-term predictions. The systematic ability to predict future impact of buying policies and decisions on key supply chain metrics is challenging and paramount in the world-wide retail and operations spaces.

The successful candidate will be a person who enjoys and excels at diving into data to analyze root causes and implementing long term solutions in systems or processes. This position offers opportunity for immedia! te impact through updates to the models in our systems and creation of effective metrics and functionality.

Responsibilites include:

• Providing business analysis using mathematical modeling tools to answer important questions for IPC
• Partnering closely with many groups such as operations, IT, retail, and finance teams to support various business initiatives
• Effectively communicating with senior management as well as with colleagues from computer science, operations research, and business backgrounds.
• Utilizing outstanding problem solving and analytical skills

• Masters degree in operations research, statistics, engineering, mathematics, or computer science and at least 2 years of related work experience
• Experience with developing system prototypes
• Experience with SQL and Statistical tools
• Experience utilizing problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience with large scale simulat! ion tools/applications

• PhD degreein op! erations research, statistics, engineering, mathematics, or computer science and at least 2 years of related work experience
• Technical aptitude and familiarity with the design and use of complex logistics software systems
• Project management experience desired for working on cross-functional projects
• Familiarity with inventory planning concepts - forecasting, planning, optimization, and logistics - gained through work experience or graduate level education
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with large-scale datasets

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

If interested, please apply online at http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyClick.aspx?id=1568433-2668-442

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