Graduate Area Manager

Amazon Hiring for our Future Business Leaders

Salary: Competitive
Location: UK wide - Must be willing to relocate
Start Dates Available: Jan - June 2025

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
Operations sits at the heart of the Amazon customer experience. We look after everything from the moment a customer clicks buy, to the moment their item is delivered from desktop to doorstep. 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.
There are different teams within the Amazon operations model. As a graduate Area/Shift manager you could be placed within one of these teams:

• The Customer Fulfiilment (CF) team are the first people in the chain that helps customers get products at the speed were known for. 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. The CF help to manage dynamic inventory and facilitate speedy deliveries round the clock.
• Amazon couldnt deliver at pace without the Amazon Transportation Service (ATS) team. Using air, sea and road transport, as well as sortation centres equipped with the latest technology, youll help Amazons transport run at maximum efficiency. ATS analsyes data and uses the expertise of our people to get packages to their destination quickly, conveniently and sustainably.
• Amazon Logistics, or AMZL, handles last mile delivery duties in partnership with third-party distribution businesses. Utilising creative thinking and continuous improvement initiatives to get millions of physical products into the hands of our customers. The goal is to make our customers delivery experience as smooth as possible and roll out global delivery solutions for our newest concepts, like Amazon Fresh, Prime Now and Amazon Restaurants.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree (or working towards a bachelors degree)
• Advanced proficiency in written and verbal English
• Relevant experience in performing data analysis

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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

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Location: Manchester, GB

Posted Date: 11/27/2024