Regional Transportation Team Lead (Hiring Immediately)

*This is a cluster based role and will include travel* Operations is the beating heart of Amazon. This key part of our business makessure we fulfill and dispatch orders efficiently so that our customers gettheir items on time. As a Transportation Area Manager, you will be theresponsible and accountable leader for a team of associates in a clusterwithin the UK (The Transportation Associate Program - TAP is active in MAN,BHX and EMA with further expansion plans. Job location will be discussedthrough the interview process). You will own the operations and engagement of your shift with the aim tooptimize associates experience and performance in hand with load planning andefficiency, with a focus on Safety. This team is entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highlycollaborative environment. If you have a safety focused, customer obsessedtransportation and logistics industry background which carries with itexperience of working in a fast paced, ever changing and ambiguous environmentwe would love to hear from you. Key job responsibilities • You’ll need to safeguard your team’s safety, promoting Amazon’s Health andSafety standards, commit to all safety programs and compliance to ensure asafe work environment for all associates, • You’ll ensure your team is engaged and motivated, with a culture ofownership and high performance, • You’ll work with cross-functional teams, • You’ll uphold Amazon’s high standards of process quality, • You’ll strive to improve and streamline processes, diving deep to find rootcauses quickly, • You’ll become a subject matter expert on processes and activities, • You’ll actively share and promote best practices with your colleagues andnetwork, • You’ll find practical and simple solutions to complex problems withoutsacrificing quality or core functionality, • You’ll think analytically about project management, • You’ll provide day-to-day support during the rolloutimplementation of newersystemsprocesses and gather feedback, • You’ll communicate daily metrics and report exception, • You’ll act as the responsible and accountable person in respect of theOperator License (O License), • Youll prepare and participate in Operations daily calls to communicate yourteams performance to TOM leadership, • Youll require extensive travel within your cluster. • Youll ensure fleet and driver compliance through active monitoring andreporting A day in the life You’ll work on a shift pattern at one of our sites, making sure it is asproductive as it can be. Your main focus will be to own and drive a culture ofsafety and uphold quality and shift performance standards. You’ll also overseeprocess improvements within your area and drive implementation. A typical dayis varied, including everything from routine team management and dailyoperational responsibilities to process improvement and wide-scale operationalcontingency tasks. You’ll also be a role model and mentor to new managers. About the team Amazon couldn’t deliver at pace without the Amazon Transportation Service(ATS) team. As part of ATS, you’ll be welcomed into a diverse team that playsa central role in our success. Using air, sea and road transport, as well assortation centres equipped with the latest technology, you’ll help Amazon’stransport run at maximum efficiency. Our team captures data and uses it todrive 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 expertiseof our people to get packages to their destination – quickly, conveniently andsustainably. Transportation Associate Programme (TAP) is a Programme within EU AmazonTransportation Services (ATS). TAP scope is to execute shunting and shortdistance over the road driving with Amazon Associates drivers. TAP vision isto provide a world-class employment experience in a modern technology drivenenvironment that puts safety first. TAP mission is to provide a safe,sustainable, profitable, and best in class transport operations that supportsAmazon’s growth, and to offer AA a new career opportunity. ### BASIC QUALIFICATIONS• Hold a Transport Managers Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC)National and International • A Degree • Relevant experience in leading a busy and large-scale transport operationwithin a growing and rapidly scaling business • Experience managing people • Experience with performance metrics and process improvement and data-drivendecision making • Experience dealing with ambiguity, working under pressure and handlingchanging priorities, to effectively prioritize and multitask • Relevant experience of communicating with a wide range of stakeholders,including your peers and leadership • Advanced proficiency in written and verbal English ### PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS• Masters Degree in Operations Research, Transportation, Logistics, SupplyChain, Economics, Business Administration, or a similar related discipline • Experience with a contingent workforce during peak seasons • Experience of being named on an Operators Licence within the Transportindustry Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. 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