Area Manager, Fulfillment Center Operations

Afaq - Warehouse Branch; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon seeks an Area Manager to lead a large, diverse team and ensure the area meets demand while maintaining safety and high productivity. You will work hands-on, drive process improvements, and collaborate with engineers and other managers to standardize shift processes.

Based at a site in the operations network, you will monitor performance, manage daily tasks, and escalate issues as needed. A focus on data-driven decisions and cross-team cooperation is essential to meet customer demands and

Qualifications

• 2+ years of employee and performance management experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or 2+ years of Amazon experience.
• Able to work flexible shifts including nights and weekends.

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.

Skills

People management

Performance metrics

Lean techniques

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

When you join Amazon as an Area 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.

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

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