AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
For more than 11 years, Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted platform. offers over 100 fully featured services to millions of active customers around the world—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—to power their infrastructure. Support Engineering provides global technical support to a wide range of customers using as they build mission-critical applications on top of services. Premium Support Global Business (Biz Ops) is a diverse team that provides the underlying infrastructure (tools, people planning, and processes) to enable decision making to ensure business success and is seeking an experienced Senior Workforce Analyst.
In this role, you will be responsible for building relationships with a site’s leadership teams and helping them execute on a staffing plan for the highly complex teams that supports 160+ services 24/7 within Premium Support fields within AWS. You will leverage your analytical mindset and workforce management experience to create actionable and data driven action plans to local and global stakeholders to support the business. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders who have various needs and find the right balance between structure/consistency and autonomy/flexibility that propels all teams within the organization to deliver for the customer.
Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities for Workforce Management Analyst:
Delivers weekly assessment of the site performance (inputs) with call-outs on misses to drive adherence to plan
Delivers optimal schedule coverage for the and works with BI to create the needed mechanisms to report adherence
Delivers skilling plans by site that are needed to ensure service coverage
Plans and manages wide flex skilling initiatives to help fill capacity gaps and mitigate risks to global operations
Proactively monitors performance and develops the needed paths to green when operations deviates from plan, coordinates with Site Leads on appropriate correction plans, and tracks adherence to plan
Consults with Service Support Owners and Ops Managers on testing and validation of Capacity Planning input assumptions
Provides best practices and necessary guidance on scheduling non-casework time for engineers in order to maintain appropriate levels of service coverage
Delivers site and profile level holiday scheduling plans
Acts as link between Global Biz Ops and the business to continually provide feedback on how to align our planning process to reality
A day in the life
The WFA (Workforce Analyst) is the primary point of contact on WFM policies and processes for SE Domains and Sites. WFAs are also responsible for establishing, tracking and reporting path to green metrics when there are misses in: FRSL, Availability, Shrinkage, AFC, DRE and other areas that impact our ability to service AWS customers.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
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We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bellevue, WA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $59,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $142,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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