Military - Area Manager, Fulfilment Center
Job ID: 10372300 | Amazon UK Services Ltd.
This role focuses on those who have military experience interested in working in the private sector. Amazon’s military recruiting team is available to discuss the many opportunities within Amazon Operations. At Amazon, thousands of former military drive innovation and raise the bar on customer experience. On a daily basis, former military apply their knowledge, skills, and leadership to a wide variety of careers – influencing change across the globe. When we hire you at Amazon, we hire for the future. With unlimited career opportunities, Amazon invests in ensuring our teams are always challenged, constantly learning from each other, and creatively contributing to our next big idea. You will be surrounded by the best innovators of our time and we welcome you to make history with us.
For those with military experience and a university degree or equivalent, we are looking to hire you! Operations is the beating heart of Amazon. This key part of our business makes sure we fulfil and dispatch orders efficiently. As an Area Manager, you will make sure your site runs as smoothly as it should so that we can meet customer demand. You will lead a team that keeps our operations safe, efficient, and of high quality, and take on a number of projects across our network to drive productivity.
Key job responsibilities
* Create, oversee, and drive a culture of safety and wellbeing
* Analyse and implement changes to keep quality and productivity at a consistently high level
* Oversee projects to streamline processes, optimise productivity and increase quality of service for customers within your area of responsibility
* Analyse shift performance against relevant business objectives, and put in place actions to improve operational excellence
* Work collaboratively with management-level colleagues to standardise shift practices
A day in the life
You’ll work on a shift pattern at one of our sites, making sure it is as productive as it can be. Your main focus will be to own and drive a culture of safety and uphold quality and shift performance standards. You’ll also oversee process improvements within your area and drive implementation. A typical day is varied, including everything from routine team management and daily operational responsibilities to process improvement and wide-scale operational contingency tasks. You’ll be a role model and mentor to new managers.
Basic Qualifications
* A degree/Equivalent
* Relevant experience in people management
* Relevant experience of communicating with a wide range of stakeholders, including peers and leadership
* Relevant experience using data or anecdotal evidence to influence business decisions
* Advanced proficiency in verbal and written English and local language
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience working with Lean, Six Sigma and Kaizen techniques
* Experience working in another logistics environment
* Relevant experience working with the MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook) in a professional environment
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