Area Manager, ATS

Amazon; España; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an Area/Shift Manager to lead teams and ensure operational efficiency in Spain. This role involves promoting safety and wellbeing, managing performance, and implementing process improvements across diverse teams.

Applicants should have experience in logistics or distribution environments, strong English and Spanish communication skills, and a keen ability to analyse data to drive business decisions.

This position offers a platform for growth in an inclusive and innovative work culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in employee and performance management.
• Experience with process improvements (Lean Six Sigma and/or Kaizen).
• Experience within a distribution center, logistics, or manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Promote a culture of safety and wellbeing.
• Analyse and implement corrective actions for quality and productivity.
• Support and lead a team and manage administrative work.

Skills

Data analysis

Performance management

Team management

Process improvements

Stakeholder communication

MS Office

Fluent in Spanish

English communication

Tools

MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

SQL

Job description

When you join Amazon as an Area/Shift Manager, you’ll 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, you’ll learn about the complexity of operations at a global business and what it takes to make everything run seamlessly. While you implement your team’s approach to drive productivity, you’ll 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

You’ll 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. You’ll 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

Amazon couldn’t deliver at pace without the Amazon Transportation Service (ATS) team. As part of ATS, you’ll be welcomed into a diverse team that plays a central role in our success. Using air, sea and road transport, as well as sortation centres equipped with the latest technology, you’ll help Amazon’s transport run at maximum efficiency. Our team captures data and uses it to drive decisions. They are key to making Amazon more innovative and efficient.

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.

Experience & Qualifications

• Experience in employee and performance management
• Experience engaging, verbally and in writing, with internal and external stakeholders to convey complex ideas in a clear, concise manner
• Experience using data analysis to drive business decisions
• Experience in English-language communication skills, both written and verbal
• Speak, write, and read fluently in Spanish
• Experience in managing teams
• Experience with process improvements (Lean Six Sigma and/or Kaizen)
• Experience within a distribution center, logistics, or manufacturing environment
• Experience working with the MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook) and/or SQL in a professional environment

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