Site Leader, Sort Centre UK

Our operations help everything to come together at Amazon. As the Site Leader in a fast-paced and challenging environment youll be the person who knows your area of the business inside out. Youll own the operational metrics and set the strategy for your area of the business to deliver for our customers and ultimately grow our operations. Youll also develop a large team and coach and mentor team leaders.

Key job responsibilities
- Monitor operational metrics and business performance
- Contribute to planning the operational budget considering everything from financial and labour planning
- Protect high standards of operational Health and Safety
- Strategic planning for the next three six and twelve months with a particular focus on peak-season planning
- Be accountable for operational leadership by measuring performance offering feedback and providing development support

A day in the life
Youll be based at one of our operational sites. Spending lots of time on site will help you develop your team and collaborate on operational planning. This role has two sides. Youll manage and motivate a team of leaders. At the same time youll focus on long-term objectives. This includes creating contingency plans to keep operations running and mitigate against disruptions and driving initiatives that boost quality safety and productivity. Youll be a source of accountability and a business-wide champion of best practice.

About the team
Amazon couldnt deliver at pace without the Amazon Transportation Service (ATS) team. As part of ATS youll be welcomed into a diverse team that plays a central role in our success. Using air sea and road transport as well as sortation centres equipped with the latest technology youll help Amazons transport run at maximum efficiency. Our team captures data and uses it to drive decisions. They are key to making Amazon more innovative and efficient.
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.

- Bachelors degree or Advanced Degree
- Experience in a Global Supply Chain Manufacturing Production/Procurement Distribution Logistics or related environment/operations
- Experience managing a salaried hourly and agency workforce in a logistics fulfillment last-mile manufacturing engineering production or distribution environment
- Experience using Lean Process Improvement Six Sigma methodologies or related performance metrics/process improvements to increase efficiency within processes forecasting planning optimization and logistics

- Work flexible hours as business demands including overnight weekends and holidays

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover invent simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice ( to know more about how we collect use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1

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