Amazon's FBA inventory management team is looking to solve key challenges facing the worldwide FBA Seller business, including building the next generation of Amazon’s low-cost storage solution and improving FBA Seller inventory efficiency.
Requirements
- Build quantitative mathematical models to represent a wide range of supply chain, transportation and logistics systems.
- Ability to develop system prototypes.
- Perform quantitative, economic, and numerical analysis of the performance of these systems under uncertainty using statistical and optimization tools such as Python, R and XPRESS to find both exact and heuristic solution strategies for optimization problems
- Apply theories of mathematical optimization, including linear programming, combinatorial optimization, integer programming, dynamic programming, network flows and algorithms to design optimal or near optimal solution methodologies to be used by in-house decision support tools and software.
- Proficiency working with Python, SQL and/or C/C++.
- In depth familiarity with the literature and practice of operations management, supply chain management, inventory management, revenue management, forecasting, and/or logistics
- Proficiency in model development, model validation and model implementation for large-scale applications
Responsibilities
- Design, prototype, analyze, and improve models which are crucial components of our Seller inventory management systems
- Working closely with software development teams as well as business partners to integrate prototypes into production systems and ensure that models are implemented properly to meet business requirements and performance scalability requirements.
- Develop scalable mathematical models to derive optimal or near-optimal solutions to existing and new inventory planning challenges
- Advocate technical solutions to business stakeholders, engineering teams, as well as executive level decision makers
- Create policy evaluation methods to track the actual performance of devised solutions in production systems, identify areas with potential for improvement and work with internal teams to improve the solution with new features
- Analyze large amounts of business data, define new metrics and business cases, design simulations and experiments, develop scientific, and collaborate with teammates in business, software, and research.
- Lead the research where we are responsible for developing solutions to better manage and optimize worldwide FBA inventory capacity, while providing the best experience to our Sellers to growth their business.
Other
- PhD in operations research, management science, statistics, engineering, mathematics, or computer science and 4+ years of related work experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with technical and business teams; ability to speak at a level appropriate for the audience.
- Ability to work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies.
