Graduate Area Manager

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 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.

As part of our commitment to complying with national labor laws and applicable legislations in South Africa this position is open to candidates who fulfill the specific nationality criteria stipulated by local regulations.

Available Locations: Cape Town and Johannesburg

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.

- University degree (Bachelors or Masters degree) with a graduation date within the last 24 months.
- Relevant experience in performing data analysis

- Preferred qualifications are not required to apply for a position at Amazon. If you have all the basic qualifications above wed 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

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer and we value your passion to discover invent simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age sex disability sexual orientation race religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of this regard the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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