Last Mile Area Manager, AMZL...

Role Overview :

As Operations Manager for Amazon's Last Mile Operations, you will lead a team of OTR Managers and their respective teams across multiple shifts, ensuring excellence in safety, service quality, customer experience, and operational productivity. This role requires strategic thinking, strong leadership capabilities, and the ability to drive results through others, and tactical follow ups of actions.

Core Responsibilities :

Lead and develop a team of OTR Managers across multiple shifts

Drive performance management and career development for direct reports

Establish clear performance expectations and accountability

Foster a positive work culture and high team engagement

Operations Excellence :

Drive operational standards across all shifts

Optimize resource allocation across shifts and teams

Develop and implement standard operating procedures

Lead cross-shift improvement initiatives

Manage relationships with senior DSP, and Business Coach leadership.

Ensure operational consistency across shifts

Safety & Compliance :

Champion Amazon's safety culture across all shifts

Ensure compliance with safety standards across teams

Lead safety committees and initiatives

Drive accountability for safety metrics

Develop and implement security protocols

Manage crisis response when needed

Performance & Analytics :

Own station-level KPIs and metrics

Drive data-based decision making across teams

Develop action plans for performance improvement

Track and analyze cross-shift productivity metrics (DPPH, SPR).

Innovation & Process Improvement :

Lead large-scale process improvement initiatives

Implement best practices across shifts

Drive innovation in last mile delivery operations

Manage change initiatives at station level

Shift Management :

Ensure 24 / 7 operational coverage as needed

Manage shift handover processes

Coordinate cross-shift communications

Balance workload across shifts

Handle escalations across all shifts

Available for all shift operations as required

Key job responsibilities

• Promote a culture of safety and wellbeing
• Analyze 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
• Analyze performance and suggest process improvements to optimize work and improve customer service
• Promote best practice and continuous process improvements across your team in areas like health and safety and productivity
• Collaborate with other managers to standardize 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 prioritizing 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 analyzing data and performance metrics with leaders in your business area, as well as discussing the operational pros and cons of technical improvements with engineers.

About the team

Amazon Logistics, or AMZL, handles ‘last mile’ delivery duties in partnership with third-party distribution businesses. We utilise creative thinking and continuous improvement initiatives to get millions of physical products into the hands of our customers. Our goal is to make our customers’ delivery experience as smooth as possible and roll out global delivery solutions for our newest concepts, like Amazon Fresh, Prime Now and Amazon Restaurants.

There are two sides to what we do. Our ‘under the roof’ associates process millions of products for dispatch to our delivery teams. Our team is people-focused and supportive, particularly as lots of our people work through the night. We focus mostly on operations, with 24 / 7 shifts in most of our locations.- 2+ years of employee and performance management experience

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