Area Manager, DSO2

Amazon TA; Southampton; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Logistics is seeking an Area/Shift Manager in Southampton to lead a large, diverse team and ensure safety, quality and productivity across shifts. You’ll analyse performance, drive improvements and collaborate with other managers to standardise processes while maintaining a strong team culture.

You’ll work on-site at one of our operational sites, managing daily tasks, escalation handling and contingency planning to meet customer demand and keep operations running smoothly.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree completed before start date or within the last 24 months.
• Experience in a logistics or warehouse environment.
• Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Promote a culture of safety and wellbeing.
• Analyse and implement corrective actions to ensure quality and productivity across shifts.
• Support and lead a team and handle administrative work while building a strong team culture.
• Analyse performance and drive process improvements to optimise operations.
• Collaborate with other managers to standardise shift processes.

Skills

People leadership

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

MS Office (Excel/Outlook/Word)

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

MS Office Suite

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 Logistics, or AMZL, handles 'last mile' delivery duties in partnership with third-party distribution businesses. We utilise creative thinking and continuous improvement initiatives to get millions of physical products into the hands of our customers. Our 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.

There are two sides to what we do. Our 'under the roof' associates process millions of products for dispatch to our delivery teams. Our team is people-focused and supportive, particularly as lots of our people work through the night. We focus mostly on operations, with 24/7 shifts in most of our locations.

Meanwhile, our 'on the road' people work with Amazon Flex - a network of delivery contractors. Every year, we continually raise the bar for customer experience with new, innovative delivery services. We look for new ways to overcome industry-wide logistics challenges and new ideas to reduce our carbon footprint, supported by a portfolio of cutting-edge vehicles (including Electric Vehicles) and technology to help us do just that.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• completed university degree before the start date OR graduated within the last 24 months
• Work a flexible schedule/shift/work area, including weekends, nights, and/or holidays
• Can push and pull wheeled dollies loaded with products up to 100 pounds during shifts
• University degree (Bachelor's or Master's degree), completed before start date
• 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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