Area Manager, Sort Center, Area Manager

Description

Amazon – where builders can build! We’re looking for a smart, customer-obsessed innovator and owner to join our Operations Team

Purview of a Operations Manager
Manager-I, Operations is responsible for managing a team and facilitating flow of information across multiple stakeholders to resolve any potential issues that impact customer experience/ business continuity.

The candidate should have a basic understanding of the logistics space and should be able to communicate clearly in the written and oral form. She/he should be able to come up with process improvements drive them through completion.

Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to

- Managing a shift, constantly identifying opportunities to improve team performance and owning associated change management.
· Developing and/or referring to performance metrics to drive team performance and business results.
· Identifying the business impact of trends and making data backed decisions.
· Communicating with external customers (Carriers, Vendors/Suppliers) and internal customers (Finance, Ops Excellence, Fulfillment Centers)
· Escalating problems or variances in the information and data to the relevant owners and following through on resolutions.
· Ability to pull data from numerous databases (using Excel, Access, SQL and/or other data management systems) and to perform ad hoc reporting and analysis, as needed, is a plus.

A day in the life
Managing a shift, constantly identifying opportunities to improve team performance and owning associated change management.
· Developing and/or referring to performance metrics to drive team performance and results.
· Identifying the business impact of trends and making data backed decisions.
· Communicating with external customers (Carriers, Vendors/Suppliers) and internal customers (Finance, Ops Excellence, Fulfillment )
· Escalating problems or variances in the information and data to the relevant owners and following through on resolutions.
· Ability to pull data from numerous databases (using Excel, Access, SQL and/other data management systems) and to perform ad hoc reporting and analysis, as needed, is a plus.

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

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