DESCRIPTION

Are you a self-starter with a passion for e-commerce, looking to expand your retail skillset and shaping the way the biggest brands work with Amazon?

Sounds great. What will I be working on?

As Business Analyst, you will be part of the Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) team, which provides a suite of services designed to help Amazon's most strategic brands working across all key areas of retail business. You will work with the team supporting vendors supplying the top brands on Amazon, providing them with initiatives and tools to work more efficiently. Your priority will be to work backwards from the customer, identifying ways to improve efficiency, driving new initiatives to do more with less and overall improving brands performance.

Alongside this, you will contribute to improving the efficiency of the service itself. We are constantly working to build scale for this service through the right set of tools and cross-functional collaboration including but not limited to Tech teams.

About you:

- You are data driven with a background in e-commerce, retail, research and/or insights.

- You have deep knowledge of emerging trends in growth hacking, tech, and tools to drive growth.

- You identify, prioritize, and tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed, and assess risk, drive clarity, and foster shared understanding by asking detailed questions about proposed solutions and/or strategies.

- You create the correct sense of urgency for delivery, and proactively drive business decisions with senior leaders, aligning teams toward coherent and effective business and strategies.

- You are a strategic thinker who identifies gaps and opportunities, and decomposes complex business problems and inefficiencies into straightforward and efficient strategies that improve the customer experience.

- You show excellent judgment, and recognize when current plans are susceptible to prior failure patterns and actively steer teams to avoid repeating these failures.

This role is available in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

This role offers 360 ͦexposure to different areas of the industry e-commerce, opening a multitude of career paths.

Key job responsibilities

- Deep Dive and Advanced Analytics – Identify, develop, manage, and execute analyses to uncover areas of opportunity to help business team to create higher customer impact

- Metrics and Reports - Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions. Ensure data accuracy by validating data for new and existing tools. Automate data templates and reports

- Build a SQL repository for adhoc requests and reports

- Develop and Train members of the team for organizing and reporting where automation not possible

Skills

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

- 5+ years of Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions, power pivots, etc.) and data visualization tools such as Tableau experience

- 3+ years of business or financial analysis experience

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent

- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights

- Experience with Excel

- Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders

- Experience with SQL

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in financial/business analysis