Area Manager

Operations; Dartford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in Dartford is seeking an Area Manager to ensure efficient operations and team management. Your role will focus on driving safety, productivity, and quality across operations. This involves overseeing projects, managing performance, and collaborating with management teams. Ideal candidates will have relevant experience in management and effective communication skills. Full-time position available.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in people management.
• Relevant experience of communicating with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Relevant experience in using data to influence business decisions.
• Advanced proficiency in verbal and written English.

Responsibilities

• Create and drive a culture of safety and wellbeing.
• Analyse and implement changes for quality and productivity.
• Oversee projects to streamline processes.
• Work collaboratively with management-level colleagues.

Skills

Sales Experience

Direct Sales

Retail Experience

Hospitality Experience

Management Experience

Process Improvement

Outside Sales

Team Management

Kaizen

Leadership Experience

Public Speaking

Supervising Experience

Education

Degree

Tools

MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Job description

Operations is the beating heart of Amazon. This key part of our business makes sure we fulfil and dispatch orders efficiently so that our customers get their items on time. As an Area Manager youll make sure your site is running as smoothly as it should so that we can meet customer demand. You will be leading a team that helps keep our operations safe efficient and of a high quality and taking 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 optimize 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 our operational excellence
• Work collaboratively with management-level colleagues to standardize shift practices

A day in the life

Youll 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. Youll 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. Youll also be a role model and mentor to new managers.

• A degree
• Relevant experience in people management
• Relevant experience of communicating with a wide range of stakeholders including your peers and leadership
• Relevant experience in using data or anecdotal evidence to influence business decisions
• Advanced proficiency in verbal and written English and local language

Preferred qualifications are not required to apply for a position at Amazon. If you have all the basic qualifications above wed love to hear from you.

• 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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Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

Sales Experience,Direct Sales,retail Experience,Hospitality Experience,Management Experience,Process Improvement,Outside Sales,Team Management,Kaizen,Leadership Experience,Public Speaking,Supervising Experience

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1