Production Planning Analyst, Latam Production Planning Team

Job description

Amazon is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth’s most customer-centric company and to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.

The Global Finance Solutions (GFS) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, and dynamic environment, and delivering great experiences for our customers is the top priority. GFS is seeking a Production Planning Analyst to support our Latam Production Planning team.

At Amazon, delivering great experiences for our customers is the top priority.

The Production Planning Team ensures Amazon’s Fulfillment Centers (FCs) have robust and cost-optimal labor plans while constantly innovating in a number of areas aimed at improving our customers’ experience. We are looking for a passionate, analytical, and technical person to work with us on innovating and improving our processes on behalf of our customers across different geographies. If you are someone who has shown success in analyzing and diving deep into complex data, streamlining and identifying process-improvement opportunities, and pioneering new ways to do things, we’d like to talk to you.

Key job responsibilities

The Production Planning analyst will be expected to deliver weekly capacity plans for Amazon fulfillment centers (FCs). These capacity plans will help influence network level strategic decisions through partnering with senior stakeholders in the FC as well as the network. The ideal candidate will possess both an analytical background that enables them to support network planning and demonstrate the ability to think broadly and strategically about operational initiatives.

They will experience a wide range of problem solving situations, requiring extensive use of data collection and analysis. They will work in lock-step with multiple business teams including FC operations’ leadership, HR, finance leadership, supply chain and transportation teams of the network they will plan for.