Area Manager - Operations and Shift Leadership
Job Description and Requirements
Area Manager - Operations and Shift LeadershipJob Snapshot
Role: Area Manager
Location: Dubai, UAE
Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain
Function: Operations-Plant Management
Experience: Bachelor\'s degree or equivalent, or 3+ years of Amazon blue badge-FTE experience
Job Type: Full Time
Position Overview
Amazon is hiring an Area Manager in Dubai, UAE to lead teams and manage day-to-day operations at an operational site. This hands-on leadership role focuses on maintaining safety, meeting quality and productivity objectives, improving operational processes, and ensuring teams can respond effectively to changing customer demand.
The Area Manager will combine people leadership with performance analysis and operational execution. Working across shifts, the role involves monitoring process efficiency, resolving escalations, coordinating contingency plans, and collaborating with managers, engineers, other internal teams, and external partners.
Job Details
Country: UAE
City: Dubai
Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain
Function: Operations-Plant Management
Salary: Not disclosed
Gender: No Preference
Candidate Nationality:
Job Type: Full Time
Work Arrangement: On-site
Key Responsibilities
* Promote and maintain a strong culture of safety and wellbeing across the team.
* Lead a large and diverse operational team during assigned shifts.
* Monitor quality, productivity, and operational performance against business objectives.
* Analyse performance data and implement corrective actions when required.
* Handle routine team management and related administrative responsibilities.
* Build and support a collaborative team culture.
* Identify process improvements that can increase efficiency and improve customer service.
* Work with other managers to standardise shift processes.
* Maintain effective operational execution as customer demand changes.
* Support individual escalations and wider operational contingency planning.
Day-to-Day Operations
The Area Manager will work shifts at an Amazon operational site, with safety and process efficiency forming central parts of daily responsibilities. The position requires balancing routine people management with immediate operational priorities and longer-term process improvement activities.
Performance metrics will be reviewed with leaders across the relevant business area to identify issues and opportunities. The Area Manager will also work with engineers to understand the operational advantages and limitations of proposed technical improvements.
Team and Stakeholder Collaboration
* Coordinate with colleagues across operations and other internal teams.
* Work with external partners where required to keep operations aligned with customer demand and business targets.
* Communicate operational priorities clearly to team members.
* Use performance data to support decisions and corrective actions.
* Collaborate with management colleagues to improve consistency between shifts.
* Support the implementation of practical improvements across operational processes.
Basic Qualifications
* Bachelor\'s degree or equivalent, or 3+ years of Amazon blue badge-FTE experience.
* Ability to work a flexible schedule, shift, or work area.
* Availability to work weekends, nights, and holidays as required.
Preferred Qualifications
* 3+ years of experience working with performance metrics, process improvement, or lean techniques.
Key Capabilities
* Operations and shift management.
* Team leadership and development.
* Safety and wellbeing management.
* Performance metrics analysis.
* Process improvement.
* Quality and productivity management.
* Operational problem-solving.
* Contingency planning.
* Cross-functional collaboration.
* Customer service improvement.
About the Company
Amazon operates technology, commerce, logistics, and customer-focused businesses across global markets. This Dubai position is based within Amazon\'s operations environment, with the source vacancy identifying Q Tech General Trading LLC as the employing company.



