Offers “Amazon”

Expires soon Amazon

Labor Economist

  • Internship
  • USA
  • Sales

Job description



DESCRIPTION

Are you passionate about transforming Amazon's hourly workforce experience? Are you a self-starter with experience leading innovation projects? Do you embrace any opportunity to drive business improvement with data and analytics? Do you enjoy questioning the status quo? Do complex and difficult challenges excite you? If yes, this may be the team for you.

Amazon’s mission is to be the most customer centric company in the world. The Employee Relations organization is on the front line of that mission by hiring the hourly fulfillment associates who make that mission a reality. We are the research team that dedicated to the global hourly workforce in Amazon to drive the necessary growth and continued scale of Amazon’s associate needs within a constrained employment environment. This program will re-invent how Amazon attracts, communicates with, and ultimately hires its hourly associates. This team will own multi-layered research and program implementation to drive deep learnings, process improvements, and strategic recommendations to global leadership.

This role will be responsible for challenging the status quo by analyzing and identifying factors that predict and forecast success and failure in Amazon's current and future labor markets. You will own the analysis across multiple data sources to build a health metric by market, predicting risk before it occurs. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and technical expertise to build analytic solutions to drive business improvements at scale.

Key Responsibilities
- Identify key market and company factors that introduce risk to meeting labor orders across our full time and part time hourly associate populations
- Evaluate effectiveness and forecast ROI on key decisions to increase Amazon's employment value proposition
- Build models that improve hiring funnel efficiency at scale
- Influence key business decisions in potentially adjusting labor plans, shift structures, compensation and/or benefits, and other factors to increase Amazon's appeal across a diverse workforce
- Build predictive models to anticipate labor order volumes and fluctuations before they occur

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience in labor market forecasting and workforce analytics
· Deep knowledge of international supply chain strategies and inventory control
· Experience with people analytics at a regional or global scale
· Experience and passion in sustainability practices and supporting technology
· Proven track record of translating findings into actions
· Ability to work cross functionally and collaborate with multiple teams
· Develops strong relationships across teams and customers
· Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

Desired profile



BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Ph.D. degree in economics, public policy, or related social science field with expertise in econometrics or applied statistics
· Minimum 5+ years of relevant work experience
· Knowledge or experience with the construction and analysis of large-scale datasets and the design of experiments and quasi-experiments
· Strong analytical experience driving quantifiable returns on investment
· Ability to turn complex problems into simple solutions
· Ability to apply advanced statistical methods, and able to communicate effectively about these methods to non-technical audiences.
· Ability to self-direct, multitask, and prioritize a constantly evolving workload.
· Demonstrated ability to thrive in ambiguous environments by driving the strategy rather than waiting for a strategy to drive you
· Excellent writing skills
· Domestic and international travel up to 10% may be required

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