MBA-I Internship Opportunities 2024 (By Invite Only)
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"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 to accelerate 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.
AFBP participants will start their journey via the three-week Incubator. Following the AFBP Incubator, participants will join business areas for a 30-month duration with two stints of 15 months each. Each stint offers 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 AWS, Amazon Stores, Devices, Finance, Operations, and Entertainment. 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.
Business swim-lanes and roles offered: As part of the AFBP program, participants can apply to one or more of the following business swim-lanes and roles. The candidature will only be considered for the role and swim-lane a participant has applied to:
1) Amazon IN Finance: Amazon Finance provides a blended exposure to technology, finance and business skills. 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 & 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.
Role offered:
i. Financial Analyst: Develop financial and product forecasts, variances, and risk analysis 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 analysis and interpret P&L data to help monitor and drive profitability; work with other groups to develop subcategory annual plans.
2) Amazon IN Stores: AFBP IN Stores swim-lane is aimed at building multi-fluent general athletes. IN stores 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. IN stores 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.
Role Offered:
i. General Management: This 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 enable development of complementary skills and capabilities early on in the career along with developmental interventions through the 30-month journey, which helps inform candidates of functional fitments and paves the way for long term success as future Amazon leaders.
3) Amazon IN Operations: Operations Swim-lane is at the heart of Amazon’s mission to be Earth’s most customer-centric company. Here we create, we build and we take ownership for what we do—whether we are developing new technology in-house, launching an Amazon fulfilment center or delighting our customers by delivering packages directly to them. We are constantly creating the ideas, services and products that make life easier for millions of customers. IN Operations includes teams like Fulfilment center, Sortation center, Last Mile Delivery and Global Specialty Fulfilment teams among others. These teams leverage state of the art technology to process order efficiently and ensure timely delivery to our customers. Join the IN Operations team and bring the magic of Amazon to life for our customers through high impact projects while working collaborating with a cross functional team.
Roles Offered:
i. 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 volume metrics, peak productivity, safety, and quality expectations; Create a culture of safety, monitor equipment and conditions, and respond to incidents.
4) Amazon CS WWCP: The AFBP Customer Service Worldwide Capacity Planning (CS WWCP) program provides the opportunity to experience strategy and planning within the global CS organization. The two stints will provide rotations within forecasting, long-term and short-term capacity planning, and real-time planning teams. Participants will undergo a varied experience working on high-impact and high-visibility areas, from strategy design/planning, program management, data analysis, forecasting and modeling projections. They will work with stakeholders and vendors across the globe and time-zones, to ensure Amazon continues to provide world-class CS solutions optimized for cost.
Roles Offered:
i. Inventory Planner: Develop and execute long-term and short-term capacity planning strategies (demand forecasting and supply planning) while optimizing for productivity and cost. Directly impact our customers’ and employees’ experience by determining the allocation of resources across the worldwide Amazon Customer Service network.
5) Retail Business Services: India Retail Business Service (RBS) is one of the largest organizations in Amazon India, with a vision to accelerate Amazon's flywheel by improving customer experience and enabling selling partners to grow their business seamlessly. RBS consists of several business units, including Selection Acceleration (engaging with selling partners for selection and quality), Customer Experience (ensuring accurate product details and post-buying experience), Store Ops (building valuable services for Amazon stores and selling partners worldwide), Business Excellence (making RBS customer-obsessed by identifying and eliminating defects), and Tech Team (enhancing customer and selling partner experience through science and platforms).
Role Offered:
i. Program Manager: Identify solutions to complex problems and innovate on leading edge solutions to manage programs across internal and external teams. Own business challenges and the autonomy to think strategically and make data driven decisions. Drive programs independently and as part of larger project teams and have a significant impact on customer experience and the business.
Basic Qualifications
1. Class of 2026 from a full-time MBA program
2. Successful completion and graduation with an MBA degree prior to start date at Amazon
3. 0-4 years of prior work experience
Preferred Qualifications
1. Demonstration of interest in working in the fast-paced technology industry
2. Proof that you are capable of both strategic thinking along with detailed execution
3. Consistent track record of taking full ownership and delivering results
4. Comfortable with “hands-on” management of tasks, and proven ability to manage multiple, contending priorities simultaneously
5. Strong communication skills, managing multiple stakeholders and partner teams
Application Process
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 swim-lanes based on their performance during the selection process.
4. 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."
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Pursuing MBA from a reputed university and graduating in 2026.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Are enrolled in or have completed a full-time MBA program
- Speak, write, and read fluently in English
- Experience working for Amazon or any Amazon subsidiary or affiliate