Area Manager, Fulfillment Center

Amazon is looking for high-potential leaders, who are ready to own their impact in Amazon Operations as an entry-level manager. We promise you will have your leadership capacity stretched to its full potential. As a front-line leader, you will have an opportunity to truly invest in others and develop a people-focused leadership style, while mastering the tools, processes, and operations that have created the most customer-centric company on Earth. If you want to be involved in continuing to define the future of online retail, and are dynamic and an organized self-starter, join our team in Amazon Operations as an Area Manager.
As an Area Manager, you will have the opportunity to lead and develop your own team of Amazon Associates in a distribution warehouse environment. Your main focus will be motivating, mentoring and coaching your team. As a servant leader, the Area Manager will ensure that their team of Amazon Associates have all the tools needed to succeed for any task during a shift. Engaging with your team during a shift to ensure that the highest levels of safety, quality, attendance performance and engagement are maintained are core functions of the role. Come learn how the largest online retailer in the world runs its fulfillment and delivery networks!

What is fulfillment you ask? Fulfillment is how we refer to completing or fulfilling a customer’s Amazon.com order and the acts of picking, packing, shipping and delivering their order to meet or exceed their expectations!


Job Requirements:
· Ability to work weekends, holidays, and/or overnight shifts
· Ability to work overtime both in peak season and as needed
Locations and Placement:
· The position is NOT a corporate role and will be located in a Fulfillment Center

Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, manage, and develop a team of 50 to 200 Amazon Associates
- Communicate policies to Associates and act as the primary information source for the team, maintaining compliance, consistency, and taking corrective action when needed
- Create, manage, and support recognition and communication programs
- Support all safety programs and OSHA compliance to ensure a safe work environment for all Associates
- Ensure procedures are followed for building security and product loss prevention
- Partner with the management team to establish and maintain quality control standards
- Develop performance goals and objectives to achieve customer demand and ensure accuracy and quality

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Work flexible hours as business demands, including overnight, weekends and holidays
- 1+ years of employee and performance management experience
- Speak, write, and read fluently in English, and have the ability to take direction in English

Preferred Qualifications

- MBA, or Master's degree
- Experience with Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, or experience in similar environments
- Experience with project management
- Experience developing and implementing KPI goals and strategies based on broader organization goals
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business, operations, logistics, supply chain or engineering
- Experience in a logistics/operations environment
- Speak, write, and read fluently in English at C1 level or above

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