Area Manager , Operations

When you join Amazon as an Area Manager youll gain experience leading a large and diverse team to make sure your area of the business keeps pace with 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
Customer Fulfilment or CF is where it all started for Amazon. CF has scaled up from a humble team of booksellers to a sophisticated global team which handles more than 1.5 million orders every day. The team is the foundation of our business and its efforts have helped us diversify across new regions and services. With the help of emerging technology were always looking for ways to offer a bigger better product range delivered quickly and affordably.

The CF team are the first people in the chain that helps customers get products at the speed were known for. Were based in Fulfilment Centres which are at the heart of Amazons fast-paced Operations network. Our centres are sometimes referred to as the First Mile because its where most Amazon packages start their journey. We help to manage dynamic inventory and facilitate speedy deliveries round the clock.

Lots of different people work in our Fulfilment Centres so there are plenty of opportunities for every skillset. Some of us work with physical products while others analyse data to help everyone across the business make smart decisions.

- Bachelors degree or Masters degree
- Experience in stakeholder management and communication management
- Speak write and read fluently in English and have the ability to take direction in English
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Experience with operations/supply chain

- Knowledge of Lean Six Sigma and Kaizen techniques
- Experience in warehouse operations and logistics or equivalent
- Experience working with the MS Office suite (Word Excel Outlook) in a professional environment

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