Senior Business & Process Analyst, Planning Operations

Description

Join our Strategy, Policy, Escalations, and Resolutions team and help shape how AWS makes data-driven decisions that impact our business  a Senior Business & Process Analyst, you'll work at the intersection of operations, data analytics, and strategic planning to resolve complex sales compensation and sales planning escalations while developing scalable solutions that drive revenue impacting decisions across our global organization.

Key job responsibilities

- Resolve sales planning and compensation escalations for global business units while maintaining clear communication with stakeholders throughout the resolution process

- Analyze escalation data to identify trends, patterns, and systemic issues, then develop recommendations to reduce escalations and transform them into business insights

- Design and implement automated solutions using both agentic and non-agentic tools to enable your team to independently handle incidents that previously required further escalation

- Translate complex business problems and analytical findings into clear, actionable recommendations and work with stakeholders to implement solutions

- Present program status, insights, and decisions to leadership through weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews, demonstrating the connection between operational improvements and business goals

A day in the life

In this role, you'll focus on resolving sales planning and compensation escalations while identifying opportunities to prevent them from happening in the first place. You might start your day reviewing escalation patterns to spot systemic issues based on cases you and other team members have resolved, then collaborate with sales operations leaders to understand their challenges and translate those into analysis requirements.

You'll spend time developing automated solutions to help the team handle more cases independently, reducing the need for further escalation. Throughout the week, you'll present insights to leadership, work cross-functionally with support teams to benchmark best practices, and continuously refine processes using methodologies like Lean and Agile. Your work directly influences how we ensure correct seller payments and maintain agility to meet business needs.

About the team

We are a collaborative group focused on transforming how operations drives business outcomes across AWS. Our team works to support data-driven decision-making that is fundamental to our business success. We serve sales operations professionals, sales leaders, and support teams. Together, we're building a future where escalation processes are streamlined, automated, and generate actionable business intelligence. You'll work alongside analysts, operations leaders, and stakeholders across the organization who are committed to solving complex problems and driving continuous improvement.

We value your perspective and your ability to connect operational challenges to strategic business goals.

AWS's Sales, Marketing, and Global Operations Segmentation and Planning (SMGS Ops S&P) team provides the technology, tools, and processes to support the rapidly growing worldwide AWS Sales organization. Our purpose is to drive the successful execution of the AWS sales planning motions, including Annual Planning and Current Year planning. We partner with SMGS Ops teams, including Planning Tools, Revenue, CRM, and GSC, to enable our customers to execute planning activities.

Our teams include program management, policy, internal customer support, communications & training, and business operations.

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