Team Lead,Operations, CRET

Amazon Inc.; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Team Lead for its Transportation team in India to drive the sortation and line haul infrastructure and identify new routes. You will oversee process definitions from fulfillment centers to delivery stations and coach supervisors for efficient operations.

The role requires strong leadership, execution, and resourcefulness, with preferred experience in logistics and live operations. Fluency in English and proficiency in MS Office/Excel are essential.

Qualifications

• Leadership capabilities and people management
• Strong execution skills and action orientation
• Resourceful to identify ways to get things done with limited resources
• Experience in logistics field desirable and knowledge of courier industry
• Experience in handling live operations and on-the-spot decision making

Responsibilities

• Define transportation process from FC to delivery stations
• Ensure sufficient bandwidth in sortation team for peak delivery
• Conduct performance appraisals of station supervisors and mentor them
• Improve throughput and sustain delivery performance gains
• Analyze data reports to identify bottlenecks and drive improvements
• Implement process control and Kaizen/continuous improvement mechanisms

Skills

Leadership

Execution

Resourcefulness

Education

Graduation

Tools

MS Office

Excel

Job description

At Amazon, we’re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Amazon is seeking Team Lead for our Transportation team. Amazon is one of the most recognizable brand names in the world and we distribute millions of products each year to our loyal customers.

In this role you will be responsible for driving up the sortation & line haul infrastructure in the region which includes identifying the new routes.

Essential Functions

• Defining the transportation process from FC to delivery stations
• Ensure enough bandwidth in sortation team to ensure peak time delivery management
• Conduct the performance appraisals of the station supervisors and mentor them for handling efficient operations
• Continuously improve the through put and attain a sustained level of delivery performance improvement
• Analysis of the data reports to identify performance bottlenecks and improve the performance
• Implement the formal process control and process improvement mechanisms such as Kaizen

Essential Skills

• Strong leadership capabilities and people management skills
• Strong execution skills, Action oriented, go getter
• Resourceful to identify the way to get things done using limited resources

Basic Qualifications

• Any Graduation
• Experience in logistics field desirable and the experience in courier industry highly preferred
• People management experience. Experience in handling field team is highly desirable.
• Experience in handling live operation preferred (wherein decisions have to be taken on the spot and actions needs to be initiated right away)
• Experience in process improvement preferred with additional benefits for knowledge of specific methodologies such has six sigma, Kaizen etc.

Basic Qualifications

• Speak, write, and read fluently in English
• Experience with Microsoft Office products and applications
• Experience with Excel

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of customer-facing environment, warehousing, logistics or manufacturing experience

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