Graduate Area Manager - Erfurt in Erfurt bei Amazon Deutschland E8 Transport GmbH

Amazon Deutschland E8 Transport GmbH

• You are in the final stages of your bachelor's or master's degree, preferably in the field of industrial engineering, business administration, logistics, or similar.
• Advanced proficiency in written and verbal English
• Advanced proficiency in a second language (German, Arabic, Russian, Polish or Czech)
• Your willingness to work in shifts (early, late and night shifts) is required for the position.
• We are looking for team members who drive change with curiosity and courage, make decisions, and have the ability to self-reflect.
• You enjoy being a role model for our employees and impress with your enthusiasm and hands-on mentality.

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

• Support and lead a team and handle administrative work alongside building and supporting a strong team culture
• 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
• 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.

Star date for this position is February-March 2024.

About the team
Operations sits at the heart of the Amazon customer experience. We look after everything from the moment a customer clicks buy, to the moment their item is delivered – from desktop to doorstep. We put safety first as our people are our priority. And we use the expertise of our people to get packages to their destination – quickly, conveniently and sustainably.

As a graduate Area manager you will placed within this team:

• The Customer Fulfiilment (CF) team are the first people in the chain that helps customers get products at the speed we’re known for. Based in Fulfilment Centres, which are at the heart of Amazon’s fast-paced Operations network. Our centres are sometimes referred to as the ‘First Mile’ because it’s where most Amazon packages start their journey. The CF help to manage dynamic inventory and facilitate speedy deliveries round the clock.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Erfurt, TH, DEU

• Experience of communicating with a wide range of stakeholders, including your peers and leadership
• Experience in a logistical working environment
• Experience working with the MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)

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