The Business Advisory Lead position will be responsible for developing stakeholder relationships with their field-sales business-operations partner and subject matter experts (SMEs) within the Business Planning and Operations (BP&O) team. In addition, they will serve as a stakeholder advocate into SME decision making. Activities will include developing proficiency with various functions, and their respective SMEs such as long-term planning, sales productivity, customer coverage models, and strategic priorities to deliver high-impact business recommendations to their stakeholders within AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS). The BP&O organization includes strategic, longer-term programs and functions with rich data, and this person will lead the effort in weaving these disparate data sources together and synthesize those into actionable business insights for their dedicated business partner’s interests to influence decision making.
Inclusive Culture.
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Work/Life Harmony. Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work.
Mentorship and Career Growth. Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Key job responsibilities
– Serve as the intersection between business-segment specific and technical-function specific experts in order to tailor and synthesize insights from global programs, functions, data, and analyses into their assigned customer-segment.
– Write documents, summarizing SME analysis to deliver business-segment specific insights to their business partners.
– Identify the most important analyses for supporting necessary change management in support of the long-term vision and WWPS strategy.
– Earn trust by making business recommendations that are actionable, data-driven, precise, and reflect business-segment nuances and relevancy.
– Relentlessly solve our internal customers’ challenges with the right information at the right time, often identifying those challenges before our customers are aware they exist.
– Drive analytics projects to provide deep insights into business performance and go-forward strategy and resource investment implications.
– Coordinate across AWS to share programs and best-practices as well as participate on any pan-corporation programs as needed.
– Act as an extension of business-operations partner’s team, assisting with analytical projects focused on deep insights that enable business planning decisions.
About the team
Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 100 fully featured services to millions of customers around the world-including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies-to power their infrastructure. Business Planning and Operations (BP&O) supports the AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) business teams to better serve our partners and customers in their journey to the cloud.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Denver, CO, USA | Houston, TX, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– Bachelor’s degree with a major in
quantitative/statistical, computer science, or finance
– 7+ years experience in business planning and operations
– Cross functional project delivery experience
– Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership
– Experience owning program strategy and end to end delivery
– Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
– Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
– Experience defining and executing program requirements
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Advanced degree (MIS, MA, MBA) from an accredited university
– Relationship-building and influencing skills
– Analytical reasoning and ability to build proficiency across a breadth of technical functions
– Highly organized with program management skills/experience
– Ability to influence change
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $107,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $199,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.