Data and Optimization Analyst

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JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE

Employment: Full Time

Description

UAE marketing team at Souq.com (an Amazon company) is seeking a highly-motivated and experienced data analyst to join the team and help drive our long term strategy.

As the data and optimization analyst you will be responsible for helping understand customer behavior across and within different channels and guide our marketing investment initiatives. You will be responsible for creating compelling, clear, and powerful representations and optimization models of our data to extract actionable recommendations. As the data analytics expert you will lead our efforts in this area, and be required to determine what's important to the business, even in the absence of clear guidelines; to work with different teams to develop visualizations that move the business forward, and to enable better business decisions.

The successful candidate will be an expert with analyzing large data sets and have exemplary communication skills. The candidate will need to be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, and able to think big while paying careful attention to detail.
In addition to providing valuable insight into our customers, this person will work extensively with amazon product management teams, partner marketing teams, technical teams, finance, and operations to help grow the business.

In this role you will

You love working with data, can create clear and effective reports, optimization models and data visualizations to answer key business questions. You will also have the opportunity to display your skills in the following areas:

• Own in-depth analyses of the weekly, monthly and quarterly business reviews traffic data
• Own in-depth analyses of Souq customer behavior across multiple device categories, and lead insight generation
• Be hands-on with Tableau, SQL and reports to contribute to the development of key org-level executive dashboards that will be consumed by our GM, VPs and Directors
• Invent and innovate - Tell the story of business trends, patterns, and outliers through rich visualizations
• Develop a comprehensive customer profile to support our customer segmentation strategy
• Work closely with various stakeholders to define the information needed and how best to present it
• Support leadership with timely recurring and ad-hoc analyses
• Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions
• Develop, implement, and automate processes to collect and manage usage data from multiple sources
• Define requirements for reporting sales data, customer behavior, and technical performance metrics, and work with technical teams and product managers to integrate into our development schedules
• Partner with internal and external market research teams to analyze our customers and the competitive environment

REQUIREMENTS

Basic Qualifications

• Relevant work experience in analytics, data engineering, business intelligence, market research or related field, and demonstrable professional experience (experience in consumer-facing industry preferred)
• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Information systems or related technical field
• Working knowledge of SQL and Tableau required
• Proven track record of developing dashboards and reporting infrastructure
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to work with business owners to define key business questions and build data sets that answer those questions
• Strong leader who can prioritize well and communicate clearly across all levels of the organization with a proven ability to influence others
• Fluent in English both oral and written

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of industry experience with BI Development
• Graduate degree in business, mathematics, statistics, economics, or other quantitative field
• Have a business analyst background; Experience as a business analyst, creating reports and metrics
• Experience in using databases in a business environment with large-scale data sets
• Advanced problem-solving skills for tackling complex issues
• Experience with advanced statistical methodologies
• Both technically deep and business savvy enough to interface with all levels and disciplines within the organization
• Experience with statistical modeling and analyzing large data sets
Are you interested? We look forward to receiving your application in English.
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.

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ABOUT THE COMPANY

Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae.

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