Graduate Area Manager

When you join Amazon as an Area/Shift 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.

As part of our commitment to complying with national labor laws and applicable legislations in South Africa, this position is open to candidates who fulfill the specific nationality criteria stipulated by local regulations.

Available Locations: Cape Town and Johannesburg

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.

Basic qualifications

- University degree (Bachelor's or Master's degree), with a graduation date within the last 24 months.

- Relevant experience in performing data analysis

Preferred qualifications

- Preferred qualifications are not required to apply for a position at Amazon. If you have all the basic qualifications above, we’d love to hear from you.

- 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) in a professional environment

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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