Transport Manager - Dortmund, Transportation Associate Programme (TAP) (m/w/d)

Operations is the beating heart of Amazon. This key part of our business makes sure we fulfill and dispatch orders efficiently so that our customers get their items on time. As a Transportation Area Manager, you will be responsible and accountable leader for a team of associates in a cluster within Germany.

You will own the operations and engagement of your shift with the aim to optimize associates' experience and performance in hand with load planning and efficiency, with a focus on safety. This team is entrepreneurial, wear many hass, and work in a highly collaborative environment. If you have a safety focused, customer obsessed, transportation and logistics industry background and experience working in a fast paced, ever changing and ambiguous environment we would love to hear from you.

TAP scope is to execute over the Road journeys (middle mile linehaul) and Shunting with Amazon Associates who are provided bar-raising training to become fully qualified TAP Drivers (TD). Our vision is to provide a world-class employment experience in a modern, technology driven environment that places safety at the forefront of everything we do. TAP's mission is to a safe, sustainable, profitable, and best in class transport operation that supports Amazon's growth, while offering people an opportunity to embark on a new career path. TAP is expanding risks in the German Network and the team wants significantly grow over the new years. As the program grows, the scope brings new and exciting opportunities within the management team and the transportation industry. The team is required to donate time between the office (in central Dortmund location, 1-2 days of the week) and 4 within the DTM cluster (DTM1-DTM2-DTM9-PAD1, 3-4 days of the week). For this the team should expect to be fully reimbursed for their personal car mileage. Full onboarding and training will be provided. We promote personal career growth the development and we offer comprehensive shadowing of the experienced team in the UK thus traveling in the UK during the onboarding will be offered with all costs covered

Job ID: 2983482 | Amazon Deutschland W25 Transport GmbH - K84

Key job responsibilities

• Safeguard your team's safety, promoting Amazon's Health and Safety standards, commit to all safety programs and compliance to ensure a safe work environment for all associates.
• Ensure your team is engaged and motivated, with a culture of ownership and high performance
• Work with cross-functional teams.
• Uphold Amazon's high standards of process quality.
• Strive to improve and streamline processes, diving deep to find root causes quickly.
• Find practical and simple solutions to complex problems without sacrificing quality or core functionality.
• Think analytically about project management.
• Provide day-to-day support during the rollout/implementation of newer systems/processes and feedback gather.
• Communicate daily metrics and report exception.
• Act as the responsible and accountable person in respect of the commercial road haulage permit.
• Prepare and participate in Operations daily calls to communicate your team's performance to Transportation Operations Management (TOM) leadership.
• Ensure fleet and driver compliance through active monitoring and reporting.
• Travel within your cluster.

A day in the life You'll work on a shift pattern at one of our sites, making sure it is as productive as it can be be. You'll also oversee process improvements within your area and drive implementation. A typical day is varied, including everything from routine team management and daily operational responsibilities to process improvement and wide-scale operational conting tasksency. You'll be a role model and mentor to new managers.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant experience in leading a busy and large-scale transport operation within a growing and shaking business.
• Relevant experience in people management.
• A degree
• Valid Transport Manager Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) according to REGULATION (EC) No 1071/2009.
• Relevant experience with performance metrics and process improvement.
• Relevant experience developing creative and scalable solutions independently, and drive them from ideation to successful completion.
• Advanced proficiency in written and verbal English and German PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Master's Degree or similar education in Operations Research, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain, Economics, Business Administration, or a similar related discipline
• Experience with a contingent workforce during peak seasons.
• Experience of being named on a Commercial road haulage permit within the Transport industry.

Working schedules Amazon facilities operate at mostly 27/7 and therefore as a Transport Area Manager your working schedules may vary and span across day shifts, Mid shifts as well as night shift. So due to the business needs must be flexible to work weekends.

Location &Business travel As a Transport Manager you will require to travel across 4 Amazon facilities in Dortmund area (DTM cluster) and more specific in (DTM1, DTM2, PAD1, DTM9 and PAD1). Therefore, you are expected share time between the office and the facilities (typically 1-2 days in the office and then work from each facility for the remaining of the week). Depending on operational needs you might need to visit multiple sites within the day you must be flexible to start and finish your working day from different locations.

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 plays a central role in our success. Using air, sea and road transport, as well as sortation centers equipped with the technology latest, you'll help Amazon's transport run at maximum efficiency. Our team capture 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 – costly, guaranteed and sustain. JOBV1_EN