The posting
At Amazon, we’re seeking experienced and driven leaders to join our Operations network across Sydney and Melbourne, with a range of exciting senior leadership opportunities.
With multiple roles available across both day and night shifts, you’ll have the opportunity to lead high-performing teams, influence operational strategy and drive meaningful results in one of the world’s most innovative and customer-centric organisations.
You’ll work at the forefront of operational innovation, gaining exposure to market-leading technology, systems and processes that are transforming the way we operate. Bring your leadership, challenge the status quo and help shape the future of our business while delivering smiles to our customers every day.
This is an excellent opportunity to be part of the operations leadership team during its phase of expansion and growth, whereby you get to define the process flows and shape up standard work routines as the operations scale up.
As a Senior Leader, you’ll deliver inspiring, inclusive leadership for the teams you supervise. But at the same time, you don’t shy away from getting involved whenever necessary.
You’ll be directly responsible for supervising a team of Area Managers/Shift Managers and their direct reports. The quality of your leadership is key to achievement in this role: you’ll motivate and inspire your teams to do their best work, while planning schedules and activities that balance their needs with that of the business.
Another key aspect of your role will be to coordinate on numerous process improvement projects, with the aim of streamlining all activities, both for yourself and the teams you manage/the teams in your remit. The ideas, innovation and leaps out of the status quo that you come up with could very well be rolled out across the Amazon network: this immense opportunity is yours for the taking.
Key Job Responsibilities: - Lead, coach and develop a team of Area Managers/Shift Managers and their direct reports, building a strong leadership culture and empowering your teams to deliver exceptional operational and customer outcomes. - Maintaining Health and Safety standards within your remit area, while promoting an inspiring Health and Safety culture on-site, - Become a subject matter expert on specific, larger-scale processes and activities within the site, - In your inventory control and systems environment, you’ll handle timely data collection, updating operations metrics on an hourly basis, - You’ll aim to achieve productivity targets, reduce cost per unit, eliminate errors and ensure a high-quality customer experience, - Work closely with other support teams (HR, Finance, Facilities, Safety and Security, IT) on staffing plans, schedules and performance levels, - Implement process change and contribute in cross-functional initiatives within your site and the broader Amazon Operations network.
- Proven leadership experience in a similar, innovative logistics, distribution, manufacturing or fast pace retail environment with multi-site/store management experience, - Experience building and managing large and high performance teams, - Experience in employee and performance management, - Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership, - Experience using data to drive root cause analysis for making business decisions with Excel or other analytical tools.
- Completed Bachelor’s, MBA or Master’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain/Logistics, or a related field, - Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities, - Experience managing contingent workforce in a business with peak season, - Experience with performance metrics and process improvement and Lean techniques, - Knowledge of Lean, Kaizen, Six Sigma concepts.
Acknowledgement of country: In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
IDE statement: 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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