Capacity Planning Analyst, Amazon Logistics Capacity Planning

Amazon Logistics is looking for a Capacity Planning Analyst who will support Network Capacity Management in capacity planning functions in the EU Middle Mile transportation network. The team provides our network with cost-optimal and flexible capacity solutions for operations and ensures to scale for seasonal peak demand increases. In this role, you will drive customer experience by directly influencing development, planning and execution of production planning cycles to ensure robust and cost optimal labor plans. You are constantly monitoring, evaluating and challenging planning inputs and provide data-driven insights to improve our performance in a growing business. The individual must have deep domain expertise across multiple functions that comprise sortation and labour planning operations. They balance short term needs and responses to local challenges with long term goals and ensure standardization across regions. They solve ambiguous problems with significant benefit to the business, selecting and identifying the best sources of data. They have high judgement, excellent analytical and creative mindset to invent solutions for the existing problems. They are passionate about getting insights from data by systematically breaking down highly complex and ambiguous problems with ease. They can communicate ideas effectively to achieve the right outcome for their stakeholders and customers. Also, they can influence stakeholders, peers and hold stakeholders accountable to the decisions made. They have confidence in engaging diverse groups of stakeholders to recommend solutions, and own the implementation. This position requires high judgement, excellent analytical abilities and a creative mind to invent solutions to existing problems. It also offers broad exposure to various business, operational, financial, and technical teams across Amazon. If you are someone who is passionate about getting insights from data, who systematically breaks down highly complex and ambiguous problems with ease and who enjoys working on a fast paced environment, we would love to speak with you! Key responsibilities: · Provide central guidance and projections for weekly planning inputs · Translate key strategic questions into projects, identifying requirements and relevant stakeholder groups · Develop insights from the historical trends, including reports and documents, share and interpret those learning with senior leadership · Actively explore and design scalable execution plans for long-term strategic planning opportunities Key job responsibilities - Building short- and medium-term operational capacity plans to optimize cost and service associated with staffing. - Analyzing planning gaps/deviations and translate them into actionable items to improve future plans. - Interacting with business teams (e.g. finance, forecasting) to validate and challenge inputs variables using a data-driven approach. - Focusing on controllership, driving continuous improvement and standardization of processes, including implementation of planning best practices and automation initiatives. - Communicating complex analysis, insights and results to senior leadership to influence and support tactical and strategic business decisions - Working with a variety of data sources, being able to identify incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying root causes, escalating discrepancies, partnering on the resolution and executing fixes - Analyzing and solving business problems related to data deviations through identifying root causes, driving corrective-actions and implementing processes and mechanism to insist on highest standards. - Participating in global operational and production planning initiatives and projects to identify and adjust to growing business needs A day in the life Every day, you’ll focus on our business objectives – from improving efficiency to increasing reliability – and find creative ways to make these happen. You’ll be part of a team driving major