📦 Area Manager, FC Operations | Amazon Hiring
🏢 Company: Amazon Italia Logistica S.R.L.
Amazon is hiring an Area Manager to lead fulfillment centre operations, manage teams, maintain safety and quality standards, and improve productivity. The role involves shift management, operational performance analysis, and process improvement across Amazon's fulfillment network.
Operations Leadership Opportunity
📌 Job Description
Amazon's Operations team ensures customer orders are fulfilled and dispatched efficiently. As an Area Manager, you will oversee fulfillment centre operations, lead a team, and help maintain safe, efficient, and high-quality processes while driving productivity improvements.
The position involves managing daily operations, analysing shift performance, implementing process improvements, and collaborating with management colleagues to standardize operating practices. You will also serve as a role model and mentor to new managers.
🔑 Key Responsibilities
- Create, oversee, and promote a culture of safety and wellbeing.
- Analyse and implement changes to maintain consistently high quality and productivity.
- Oversee projects that streamline processes and improve productivity and customer service.
- Analyse shift performance against relevant business objectives.
- Implement actions to improve operational excellence.
- Collaborate with management-level colleagues to standardize shift practices.
- Manage daily team and operational responsibilities at a fulfillment centre.
- Drive process improvements and oversee their implementation.
- Support operational contingency tasks when required.
- Act as a role model and mentor to new managers.
🎓 Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree.
- Relevant experience in people management.
- Experience communicating with a wide range of stakeholders, including peers and leadership.
- Experience using data or anecdotal evidence to influence business decisions.
- Advanced proficiency in spoken and written English and the local language.
⭐ Preferred Qualifications
The preferred qualifications are not mandatory for applying. Candidates who meet the basic qualifications are encouraged to apply.
- Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, and Kaizen techniques.
- Experience working in another logistics environment.
- Relevant professional experience using Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
🚀 Why Consider This Opportunity?
- Lead teams within Amazon's fulfillment centre network.
- Drive improvements in safety, quality, productivity, and customer service.
- Develop leadership and people management capabilities.
- Work on process improvement and operational performance projects.
- Collaborate with management colleagues to improve operational consistency.
🛠️ Key Skills Required
- People Management and Team Leadership
- Fulfillment Centre Operations
- Safety and Wellbeing Management
- Quality and Productivity Management
- Performance Analysis and Data-Driven Decisions
- Process Improvement
- Stakeholder Communication
- Shift Management
- Operational Problem-Solving
- English and Local Language Communication
- Lean, Six Sigma, and Kaizen (Preferred)
- Microsoft Office (Preferred)
📝 Interview Preparation Tips
- Prepare examples of leading teams and managing employee performance.
- Explain how you have improved safety, quality, or productivity in an operations environment.
- Prepare examples of using data or operational evidence to influence decisions.
- Review process improvement methods, including Lean, Six Sigma, and Kaizen, if applicable.
- Be ready to discuss stakeholder management and standardizing shift practices.
- Prepare to communicate confidently in English and the local language.
- Review relevant Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, Word, and Outlook.
📩 How to Apply
Interested and eligible candidates can review the official Amazon careers listing and submit their application online through the link below.
📍 Location: Alessandria, Italy
🆔 Job ID: 10516624
🏭 Department: Fulfillment & Operations Management