Area Manager

3 weeks ago


Coalville, United Kingdom Amazon Full time

When you join Amazon as an Area/Shift Manager, youll 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, youll learn about the complexity of operations at a global business and what it takes to make everything run seamlessly. While you implement your teams approach to drive productivity, youll 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
Youll 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. Youll 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 couldnt deliver at pace without the Amazon Transportation Service (ATS) team. As part of ATS, youll be welcomed into a diverse team that plays a central role in our success. Using air, sea and road transport, as well as sortation centres equipped with the latest technology, youll help Amazons transport run at maximum efficiency. Our team captures data and uses it to drive decisions. They are key to making Amazon more innovative and efficient.
We put safety first as our people are our priority. And we use the expertise of our people to get packages to their destination quickly, conveniently and sustainably.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bardon Hill, LEC, GBRBASIC QUALIFICATIONS
  • You hold a degree in logistics, business administration, or in a related field, or you have an equivalent qualification
  • A strong team player, you thrive when working with others,
  • You have previous experience as a manager, involving sizable teams; youre a natural at motivating others around you,
  • You demonstrate problem-solving and analytical capabilities: conducting and driving Dive Deep analysis on complex processes isnt a problem for you,
  • Youre a quick thinker, able to act decisively in a fast-paced environment,
  • Youre willing and able to work to flexible schedules and shifts: you always commit the time required to get the job done.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Previous experience as a manager in a distribution center or logistics warehouse is a nice to have.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

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