Job Description

DESCRIPTION Work hard, have fun, and make history at Amazon Web Services! The AWS Data Centre Planning team is searching for a passionate and talented Capacity Planner to focus on ensuring AWS regions have the right amount of data centre capacity at the right time to support customers. Our mission is to never constrain the business by delivering Data Centre capacity on-time to plan for our internal and external customers and maximizing asset utilization to minimize capital investment. AWS is at the forefront of a rapidly changing industry, facing new and complex challenges that have never been tackled before. This is a high impact role offering an opportunity to drive and influence business-critical decisions impacting the long-term future of AWS. The ideal candidate for this role is a leader with a passion for building and developing capacity delivery plans, strong business judgment, exceptional problem-solving skills, and an ability to align cross-functional organizations and teams. Responsibilities include: Key job responsibilities - Overseeing execution of capacity planning processes resulting in alignment across multiple stakeholders to develop infrastructure capacity plans for the delivery of data center space and power. - Demonstrating tactical and strategic thinking and applying high judgement to scenario modelling to inform capacity plans for data centre supply. - Developing and reviewing metrics and assessing performance against targets to identify improvement plans to close gaps. - Diving deep into planning models to identify risks and opportunities for region health and resolving constraints by negotiating across demand and supply owners. - Identifying opportunities to invent and simplify processes, identify business risks and implement resolutions and scalable mechanisms - Communicating ideas concisely to a wide variety of stakeholders for purposes ranging from informative to need for approvals from executives. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelors degree in statistics, business, finance, engineering, or a related field. - 5+ years of capacity planning, production planning, operations planning, or inventory planning experience. - Experience with process improvement, systems development, and project management. - Strong analytical skills; Can handle, synthesize and analyse large data sets, draw out and then communicate insights through concise, written documents - Strong problem-solving skills; can dive deep for root cause resolutions - Demonstrated strength in data analytics, Advanced knowledge of Excel - Ability to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial and very busy environment - Ability to manage competing priorities under ambiguity - Excellent written and verbal communications across technical and non-technical stakeholders and experience presenting to senior executives. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Dual education background - business and tech/quantitative discipline. - Experience with SQL, Tableau - Experience with data center technologies or operations - Data center planning experience - Demonstrated ability to use data (including SQL) and metrics to back up assumptions, evaluate outcomes and challenge conventional wisdom. - Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role - Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need an adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please contact the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT), Monday through Friday from 7:00 am GMT - 4:00 pm GMT. If calling directly from the United Kingdom, please dial +44 800 086 9884 (tel:+448000869884). If calling from Ireland, please dial +353 1800 851 489 (tel:+3531800851489).