Amazon’s Future Builders Program (AFBP)

We are excited to launch the Amazon Future Builders Program (AFBP) – Amazon’s flagship leadership development
program for MBA students in India. AFBP is an opportunity for to accelerate their career at Amazon by gaining exposure
to the breadth of businesses Amazon has to offer and the depth of business knowledge to build a long-term career at
Amazon via our eight-week Incubator.

Following the AFBP Incubator, participants will join business areas that offer a complexity of functional, domain, and
business knowledge, setting them up for success for a long-term career at Amazon. AFBP provides an opportunity to
navigate through complex, real life, business problems, while enhancing learning via exposure to various verticals within
each business area. There are also networking opportunities to meet the senior most leaders of each business through
this program. AFBP is an ideal opportunity to gain mentorship, career coaching, and build relationships with peers,
managers, and other Amazonians.

The AFBP Incubator: The AFBP Incubator is the first-of-its-kind immersion program that allows all AFBP participants a
common starting point to their Amazon career. During the Incubator, each participant will get the unique opportunity to
learn about various Amazon businesses, including Consumer, Devices, Finance, Operations, and Prime Video. AFBP
participants will have the opportunity to gain a breadth of understanding of various Amazon business areas and functions.
Simultaneously, the Incubator will provide functional trainings to ensure participants are familiar with Amazon acronyms,
tools, and systems. Finally, a cultural immersion in Amazon’s peculiar culture, including Writing at Amazon, ways of
working, adoption of mechanisms, and communicating at Amazon will provide AFBP participants the opportunity to hit
the ground running as soon as they join their business area following the Incubator period.

Business Areas: Each business area allows AFBP participants to undergo crucible learning experiences, gaining depth of
knowledge in each domain, and function to gain a deep understanding of the business. The depth of experiences can help
accelerate the growth of AFBP participants to take on broader leadership roles within Amazon. Each business area offers
rotations across functions and businesses to enhance the learning experience as well as provide a holistic understanding
of the businesses.

At the end of the AFBP program, participants will not only integrate with Amazon’s peculiar ways but also acquire a
diverse set of experiences that can help them emerge as future leaders to take on key leadership roles and build a long
term career at Amazon.

AFBP Job Functions:

• Financial Analyst: Develop financial and product forecasts, variances, and risk analyses to inform key business
decisions; create financial goals to define and quantify objectives for business inputs; define, generate, and report
key metrics to monitor the financial status of a business within Amazon; conduct ad hoc financial analyses and
interpret P&L data to help monitor and drive profitability; work with other groups to develop subcategory annual
plans.
• Instock Manager: Develop and execute inventory management strategies (including forecasting, capacity planning,
and supply chain optimization), determine how to allocate resources for variable cost reduction and profit margin
improvement to drive overall profitability for the business unit.
• Marketing Manager: Develop and execute strategies for growing the size and lifetime value of the business unit’s
customer base, through both acquisition and customer relationship management (CRM) strategies for targeting and
communicating with customers.
• Operations Manager: Balance day-to-day shift management operations with strategic forward-thinking decision
making; optimize labor and capacity resources to ensure efficient and effective workflow across Amazon
warehouses; ensure effective communication occurs at shift handoffs; remove barriers and construct work
continuity plans; manage backlog to ensure a balanced and appropriate workload; plan for and prepare required
resources in the short and long-term by constructing peak plans and setting goals to achieve and exceed daily

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 volume metrics, peak productivity, safety, and quality expectations; Create a culture of safety, monitor equipment
and conditions, and respond to incidents. Operations roles include field and corporate roles.
• Product Manager: Support the definition and launch of new retail products, services, or features in partnership with
technical teams. Evaluate the existing experience(s) for customers on and off Amazon, identify areas for
improvement, develop business requirements, craft and implement marketing plans, and own measures of success.
• Program Manager: Identify solutions to complex problems and innovate on leading edge solutions to manage
programs broadly across businesses within Amazon. Given responsibility to own those business challenges and the
autonomy to think strategically and make data driven decisions. Drive efforts independently and as part of larger
project teams, and have a significant impact on the customer experience and the business.
• General Management: Grow into multi-fluent general athletes by gaining exposure to different job functions within
Amazon, allowing opportunities to work on solving diverse and complex customer problems. Rotate across two
complementary stints, one Commercial (Business Development/Category Management/Marketing/Sales & Account
Management) and one techno-commercial (Product Management/Program Management) during the 30 month AFBP
program duration. Inculcate diverse skills and capabilities early on in the career, and in the process help inform long
term functional fitments, hence paving way for success as future Amazon leaders.

Participating Business Role Opportunities

• Amazon Finance (Financial Analyst): Amazon Finance provides a blended exposure to technology, finance and
business skills. This is the only program that offers (3*3) three one-year rotations across three different finance
verticals. Over the different rotations, participants' get hands on experience and go through a journey of building a
broader skill set across Consumer Finance, Operations Finance, Finance Operations, and Accounting. This program
equips candidates with the knowledge and training that can help them emerge as future finance leaders in the fast-
growing tech industry.
• Customer Service Operations (Program Manager, Inventory Planner, Operations): The AFBP Customer Service (CS)
program aims to provide a holistic, end-to-end perspective of the CS organization in India with stints across Capacity
Planning, Customer Experience and Operations. Candidates will undergo a varied experience ranging from program
management, forecasting and modeling projections, managing large teams and being at the forefront of our
customer’s voice in the world’s most Customer Obsessed Organization.
• India Consumer Business (General Management): AFBP India Consumer Business(ICB) program is aimed at building
multi-fluent general athletes. ICB consists of a large number of high growth teams focusing on areas like Amazon
Pay, Seller Advertisements, Fulfillment Channels, Prime, Seller Services, Category Management, Cross Channel
Marketing and Global Trade, to name a few, all focused on building Amazon’s India marketplace as the preferred
destination of choice for Indian customers. ICB presents you with an opportunity to be part of this exciting growth
story and shape the future of our growing marketplace by defining and executing long-term strategic initiatives.
AFBP ICB stream assures participants of exposure across two complementary stints, one Commercial (Business
Development/Category Management/Marketing/Sales & Account Management) and one techno-commercial
(Product Management/Program Management) during the 30 month AFBP program duration. The exposure to
diverse customer problems, the opportunities to develop complementary skills and capabilities early on in the
career along with developmental interventions through the 30 month journey, helps inform candidates of functional
fitments and paves the way for long term success as future Amazon leaders.
• India Corporate Teams (Program, Product, Operations): India corporate teams is one of the largest organizations in
Amazon India, consists of the Global Amazon Consumer organization (providing technological and operations
support. These support teams include Selection Monitoring, Product Compliance, Fraud Prevention, Search engine,
Catalogue design), World Wide Ops teams (providing the technological support for Amazon logistics and transport
teams that ensure hallmark offerings like 1 Day delivery, Same day delivery etc.) There are also the Product teams
such as Devices (Alexa, Kindle and Firestick to name a few), Advertising and Entertainment (Prime Video and Music
being one of them!) Rightly called the AFBP India Corporate Chapter, the participants in the program will undergo 2
rotations of approximately 15 months each, with each rotation being with a different team. The participants will be

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 provided an opportunity to work on functional/business critical projects in addition to hands-on-roles that can help
them grow professionally into “Leaders of tomorrow” and build a long-term career with Amazon.
• India Operations (Program, Operations): The Operations AFBP is divided into 2 rotations of 15 months each to
ensure participants get an opportunity to experience at least two Pan-India operational peaks in the first rotation.
The second peak in the first rotation will test the participant and will provide a platform to perform and showcase
their learning via high impact projects while working with a cross functional team.

Basic Qualifications
• Class of 2022 from a full-time MBA program
• Successful completion and graduation with a MBA degree prior to start date at Amazon

Preferred Qualifications
• Demonstration of interest in working in the fast paced technology industry
• Proof that you are capable of both strategic thinking along with detailed execution
• Consistent track record of taking full ownership and delivering results
• Comfortable with “hands-on” management of tasks, and proven ability to manage multiple, contending priorities
simultaneously
• Strong communication skills, managing multiple stakeholders and partner teams

Application Process
• Please reach out to your Placecom POC on your campus to secure the Amazon careers site application link. Selected
candidates will be invited to take an online assessment (OA). Successful candidates will be further invited to attend
video/phone interviews. This selection process is subject to change and your Placecom POC will be notified if any
changes are made. Please ensure you complete the online application form.
• Opportunities within the AFBP are available across locations in India. While we will consider location preferences if
possible, we ask you to be flexible regarding location as it is possible you will receive an offer from any of our office
locations. You need only to submit one Amazon job application for all roles using your school e-mail.
• Role and team placement are based on business needs and as Amazon continues to grow and flex, we are looking
for candidates who want to own, build and impact the customer experience. The recruiting team will assign
successful candidates to opportunities suitable swimlanes based on their performance during the selection process.
• Make sure to list your MBA program and expected conferral date (month and year) within the Education section of
your online application and on your resume.

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