Economist - Sustainability

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon’s Sustainability organization points Amazon’s innovative culture at environmental and social impacts with enormous scale. We consider the full lifecycle of our impact, from supply chain to customer experience, operational efficiency to waste diversion. We take action to improve the impact Amazon has on the environment, looking for wins that are good for our customers and our business as well. Sustainability Science and Innovation is a team of environmental and social research scientists and product managers answering core sustainability questions for the larger organization and working across the company to develop solutions to long term environmental and social hotspots.

The Role:

Key Responsibilities:
· Manage sustainability-related research projects through all stages: ideation, modeling, data collection, data analysis, data visualization, and reporting;
· Develop tools and methods to harvest and continuously update data to provide sustainability insights at scale.
· Respond to time critical questions from multiple business teams;
· Professionally communicate to senior business leaders.
· Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations.
· Lead the early investigative / inception phase of strategic sustainability initiatives and effectively influence, negotiate, and communicate with stakeholders to enable hand off of those projects for implementation.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Strong written and verbal communication skills;
· Experience with LCA data sources and commercially available tools.
· Experience building scalable analytics, models, and applications.
· Experience with AWS features (S3, Redshift) is a plus.
· Ability to write well-structured, easily maintainable, and well-documented code and desire to improve by iterating on code through peer review.
· Experience working with big, messy datasets and deriving inferences from them.
· Broad experience applying data-driven decision making across multiple industries.
· Strong drive to question the status quo and learn new topics and skills.
· Published a peer-reviewed LCA study or report (e.g. thesis/dissertation, journal article, Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), etc.)
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

We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success and we make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· PhD in economics, environmental science or engineering, industrial ecology, industrial or mechanical engineering, or a highly quantitative related field.
· 5+ years conducting sustainability research and/or driving sustainability improvements either in academia or industry;
· Experience with sustainability footprinting and/or Life Cycle Assessment (LCA);
· Coding experience in Python, R, or similar;
· Competence in statistical analysis, databases and mathematical modeling.