by Angela Guess
Amazon is looking for an Operations Research Scientist in Seattle, WA. According to the post, ” Amazon’s Global Supply Management Platform (GSMP) is looking for operations research scientists who want to build Amazon’s next generation of inventory planning systems… As a Research Scientist in GSMP, you will use your experience to develop new strategies to improve the performance of Amazon’s fulfillment systems and our vendor network. Working closely with fellow research scientists and product managers, you will use your experience in modeling, statistics, and simulation to design models of new policies, simulate their performance, and evaluate their benefits and impacts to cost, reliability, and speed of our fulfillment network. Using your analysis you will be present your findings to your peers, and work with product managers to integrate them into our product plans.”
Preferred qualifications for the position include: “PhD in relevant discipline (see basic qualifications). 2+ years of related work experience. Experience with design, application, and optimization of complex logistics software management systems. Professional experience with inventory planning and supply chain management (forecasting, planning, optimization, and/or logistics). Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Experience working with data mining on large datasets (‘big data’).”
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