Military & Veterans Area Manager

Amazon.com, Inc; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in the United Kingdom seeks an Area Manager to lead a team ensuring safety, quality, and productivity standards are met. This role involves overseeing process improvements and managing projects that enhance service quality while fostering a strong culture of safety. Ideal candidates should have relevant experience in people management, strong communication skills, and familiarity with Lean and Six Sigma techniques. A focus on driving performance excellence will be a key aspect of daily responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in people management.
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience in using data to influence business decisions.
• Advanced proficiency in English and local language.
• Experience working in a logistics environment.

Responsibilities

• Create and drive a culture of safety and wellbeing.
• Analyse shift performance against business objectives.
• Oversee projects to streamline processes and optimize productivity.
• Work collaboratively with management-level colleagues.
• Mentor new managers and role model.

Skills

People management

Stakeholder communication

Data-driven decision making

Lean techniques

Six Sigma techniques

Kaizen techniques

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

• 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, optimise 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 standardise shift practices

A day in the life

You'll 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. You'll 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. You'll 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 English and local language, Preferred qualifications are not required to apply for a position at Amazon. If you have all the basic qualifications above, we'd 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

This role focuses on those who have military experience and/or are military spouses/children interested in working in the private sector.

Amazon's military recruiting team is available to discuss the many opportunities within Amazon. At Amazon, thousands of former military are driving innovation and raising the bar on customer experience.

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, you'll 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., Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.