Entry Level Area Manager 2024 (MI, WI)

Amazon is looking for bright leaders to lead large non-exempt teams across our cutting-edge fulfillment network! This is not a corporate, office-based position. This is a full-time position located within one of our Amazon fulfillment centers, sort centers, delivery stations or other operations buildings.

Amazon provides extensive training and development for entry level managers to become exceptional people leaders.

Being an Area Manager means being on the front lines of our customer promise, ensuring your team delivers customers' orders on time, by leading a large team of Amazon Associates in one of our fulfillment locations. You will have an opportunity to invest in others and develop a collaborative leadership style, while utilizing the tools, processes, and operations that have helped create the most customer-centric company on Earth.

What is fulfillment you ask? Fulfillment is how we refer to completing or fulfilling a customer's Amazon.com order and the acts of picking, packing, shipping and delivering their order to meet or exceed their expectations! Our Operation's workflow can be broken to three major lanes: first mile - where the product is housed and ready for your order; second mile - where your order is hauled to your area; and last mile - when the product is delivered to your door. Please note that all lanes have slight building variations, but one thing is constant, our vision and dedication to the customer. As a reminder, our fulfillment centers are fast paced environments where standing, walking, and having on-the-production floor conversations are common as a visible supply chain leader!

Locations and Placement:
This position is not a corporate role or a traditional "desk" office position.
This position is interactive, you will be on your feet the majority of your shift, working closely with your team. The role will be located in a fulfillment center, sort center, delivery station, or other building within the Amazon Fulfillment Network.

Although this role is tied to a certain city, placement opportunities are nationwide. This means you will be placed at an operations building within the Amazon Fulfillment Network that most aligns with your location preferences and the current location availability after you interview.

Must be willing to relocate at time of hire (you will be placed at an operations building that most aligns with your location preferences and the current location availability after you interview.) Relocation benefits are offered at time of offer to eligible candidates.


Key job responsibilities
Coach, manage, and develop a team of 50-100 Amazon associates
Communicate policies to your team and act as the primary information source for the team -maintaining compliance, consistency, and taking corrective action when needed
Create, manage, and support recognition programs
Support all safety programs and OSHA compliance to ensure a safe work environment for all associates
Ensure procedures are followed for building security and product loss prevention
Partner with the management team to establish and maintain quality control standards
Develop performance goals and targets to achieve customer demand and ensure accuracy and quality

Job Elements:
Must be able to perform the following tasks, with or without reasonable accommodation:
Stand/walk for up to 10-12 hours
Access all areas of building (Depending on the operations building, this may include ascending and descending ladders, stairs, gangways, and shipping docks safely and without limitation)
Walk in/and around all areas of the warehouse with great frequency; many facilities are over a quarter mile in length
Willing and able to work shift patterns that may include nights, weekends, and/or holidays based on business needs, regularly . Note that there is a high chance that your shift may overlap into part of the weekend or be overnight.
Regularly bend, lift, stretch and reach both below the waist and above the head
Lift and move items up to 49 pounds


A day in the life
As an Area Manager, you will have the opportunity to lead and develop your own team of Amazon Associates in a distribution warehouse environment. Your main focus will be motivating, mentoring, and managing your team to meet targeted goals. As a people manager, you will ensure that the team of Amazon associates has all the tools needed to succeed and maintain the highest levels of safety, quality, and attendance performance at work.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Beloit, WI, USA | Caledonia, MI, USA | Detroit, MI, USA | Kenosha, WI, USA | Oak Creek, WI, USA | Pontiac, MI, USA