Area Manager - EF, External Fulfillment

Amazon; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com seeks an Area Manager for its External Fulfillment Operations team in India to lead direct people management and drive operational performance on the shop floor. The role emphasizes quality, cost, and delivery improvements while mentoring team members.

Flexibility to work weekends, nights, and holidays is required, with travel to seller nodes as needed. You will manage a team of Operations Executives and drive process changes to support automation and efficiency.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of employee and performance management experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or 2+ years of Amazon (blue badge/FTE) experience.
• Flexibility to work weekends, nights, and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Manage the performance and behavior of up to 6 Operations Executives through coaching and mentorship.
• Audit seller visits with Operations Executives to ensure 100% compliance.
• Set up robust processes to drive forecasting accuracy while minimizing costs and maximizing customer experience.
• Implement performance goals and action plans to resolve barriers and improve outcomes.
• Analyze performance metrics to identify opportunities for improvement.

Skills

People management

Performance management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon.com continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. Amazon Worldwide Operations is the underlying fulfillment and customer service engine that ensures Amazon creates the same consistent, world-class customer experience every time. We are looking for high-potential, flexible, innovative, and forward-thinking professionals to join our India Operations team. Join the External Fulfillment Operations team as an Area Manager.

As Area Managers for our sellers, you will be responsible for direct people management experience in driving operational performance in a highly metric driven environment. It is field-based role and you will also lead many process improvement projects, both for the site and the network, to drive enhancements in key shop floor metrics, viz. Quality, Cost and Delivery. One of your key responsibilities will also be development of your team members.

• You must be flexible to work weekends and/or staggered shifts regularly and to travel to seller nodes to audit, launch, set up & monitor Flex operations.
• Manage the performance and behavior of up to 06 Amazon Operation Execuitives through effective 1:1 meetings, coaching, and mentor-ship
• Manage schedules, monitor adherence and attendance of the team
• Set up robust processes to drive forecasting accuracy with an objective to minimize cost and maximize customer experience
• Implement performance goals and evaluate against pre-set goals implementing action plans to resolve performance barriers as needed
• Set the vision of the team by managing individual and team performance expectations and goals.
• Manage and drive staffing plans, schedules, quality initiatives, process change initiatives, projects and other Change/ Kaizen initiatives as required.
• Analyze performance metrics to identify areas of opportunity that will drive performance improvement
• Support in product initiatives to reduce contacts by emphasizing on automation
• Support in hiring the right OE's
• Solve complex seller issues and proactively connect with stakeholders to reduce dependencies

Key job responsibilities

2+ years of employee and performance management experience Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or 2+ years of Amazon (blue badge/FTE) experience.

Work a flexible schedule/shift/work area, including weekends, nights, and/or holidays

A day in the life

• Manage the performance and behavior of up to 06 OE's as directs
• Audit seller visits along with Operation Executives and ensure 100% compliance
• Set up robust processes to drive forecasting accuracy with an objective to minimize cost and maximize customer experience
• Implement performance goals and evaluate against pre-set goals implementing action plans to resolve performance barriers as needed
• Analyze performance metrics to identify areas of opportunity that will drive performance improvement
• Support in product initiatives to reduce contacts by emphasizing on automation
• Solve complex seller issues and proactively connect with stakeholders to reduce dependencies

About the team

External Fulfillment Tenets:

• (1) Customer backwards: Obsessing about customer and work backwards to deliver strategic operational mechanisms
• (2) Identify and benchmark best practices: We will identify best practices across Core Network and other geographies. We will buddy with Core ACES to transfer best practices and be close to FC innovations
• (3) Standardization and Knowledge sharing: Developing standards and transferring knowledge to Operations team through training and coaching
• (4) Deliver Improvements: Prioritizing areas with highest long-term impact
• (5) Eliminate waste: Continuously work towards eliminating waste and reducing variation.
• (6) Automation to support self-service over exception handling and Manual solutions

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of employee and performance management experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or 2+ years of Amazon (blue badge/FTE) experience
• Work a flexible schedule/shift/work area, including weekends, nights, and/or holidays

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of performance metrics, process improvement or lean techniques experience

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