
Area Manager – Nights
Amazon
21 hours ago
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About
- When you join Amazon as a Area Manager, you’ll gain experience leading a large
- and diverse team to make sure your area of the business keeps pace with demand.
- In this hands-on role, you’ll learn about the complexity of operations at a
- global business and what it takes to make everything run seamlessly. While you
- implement your team’s approach to drive productivity, you’ll also work closely
- with your colleagues to address challenges, which means no two days will be the
- same.
- Key job responsibilities
- - Promote a culture of safety and wellbeing.
- - Analyse and implement corrective actions to make sure quality and productivity
- are at consistently high levels, and business objectives are met across all
- shifts
- - Support and lead a team and handle administrative work alongside building and
- supporting a strong team culture
- - Analyse performance and suggest process improvements to optimise work and
- improve customer service
- - Collaborate with other managers to standardise shift processes
- A day in the life
- You’ll work shifts and be based at one of our operational sites. Your main focus
- will be to maintain safety standards within your team and across your site.
- You’ll also monitor and maintain process efficiency. Your days will always
- include prioritising routine team management and daily operational tasks,
- alongside other tasks like individual escalations, process improvement work and
- wide-scale operational contingency planning.
- Being a key part of the operations team involves working with colleagues in
- other teams and external partners to make sure we stay on track to meet our
- customer demands and targets. This will involve analysing data and performance
- metrics with leaders in your business area, as well as discussing the
- operational pros and cons of technical improvements with engineers.
- About the team
- Amazon Logistics, or AMZL, handles ‘last mile’ delivery duties in partnership
- with third-party distribution businesses. We utilise creative thinking and
- continuous improvement initiatives to get millions of physical products into the
- hands of our customers. Our goal is to make our customers’ delivery experience
- as smooth as possible and roll out global delivery solutions for our newest
- concepts, like Amazon Fresh, Prime Now and Amazon Restaurants.
- There are two sides to what we do. Our ‘under the roof’ associates process
- millions of products for dispatch to our delivery teams. Our team is
- people-focused and supportive, particularly as lots of our people work through
- the night. We focus mostly on operations, with 24/7 shifts in most of our
- locations.
- Meanwhile, our ‘on the road’ people work with Amazon Flex - a network of
- delivery contractors. Every year, we continually raise the bar for customer
- experience with new, innovative delivery services. We look for new ways to
- overcome industry wide logistics challenges and new ideas to reduce our carbon
- footprint, supported by a portfolio of cutting-edge vehicles (including Electric
- Vehicles) and technology to help us do just that. Basic Qualifications: -
- Bachelor’s degree (or working towards a bachelor’s degree)
- - Advanced proficiency in written and verbal English and local language
- Relevant experience in performing data analysis Preferred Qualifications
- Preferred qualifications are not required to apply for a position at Amazon. If
- you have all the basic qualifications above, we’d love to hear from you.
- - Experience of communicating with a wide range of stakeholders, including your
- peers and leadership
- - Experience in a logistical working environment
- - Experience working with the MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook) in a
- professional environment
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