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.

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.

- Bachelors degree or MBA in business data science public administration finance engineering human resources or related field
- Experience using English communication skills both written and verbal to foster seamless interaction with stakeholders at all levels

- Bachelors degree within last 12 months in Engineering Technology Science Operations Research Robotics Mathematics or related fields or a Associates degree and experience working for Amazon or any Amazon subsidiary or affiliate
- Experience engaging verbally and in writing with internal and external stakeholders to convey complex ideas in a clear concise manner
- Experience in manufacturing production distribution logistics environments retail or grocery management roles
- Experience working with the MS Office suite (Word Excel Outlook) in a professional environment

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