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Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.
Job Description
Work hard. Have fun. Make history.
Our overall mission is simple: We want Amazon to be the place where our customers can find, discover and buy anything online. Whatever our customers want, we will find the means to deliver it. With your help, Amazon associates will deliver world class service to our customers.
Amazon is looking for a German-speaking Group Manager based in Cape Town who will have responsibility for up to 90 associates and direct line management of 4-6 Team Managers.
The number one priority for this role is to ensure that associates are supported to deliver a world class experience. The role will require you to be a gatekeeper to ensure your Team Manager priorities remain exclusively focused on supporting their associates and ensuring defects do not get sent down the line to associates. To enable Team Managers to exclusively focus on supporting their people, your role will be to oversee the operational delivery of the teams in your remit.
The ideal Group Manager ensures that Team Manager priorities and tasks are aligned to supporting associates apply the Amazon CS Contact Tenets. To achieve this, an ideal Group Manager coaches and supports their Team Managers to build a work environment where associates are engaged and feel a positive sense of achievement about their role in delivering world class service.
You will be responsible for the overall performance and operational delivery of your teams, this will require you to work with key support functions such as site Work Flow and Quality Assurance to review performance trends and opportunities and take action to improve the service level and quality of performance. You will be an escalation point for your Team Managers and their people to take action on issues or barriers impacting the customer experience and will lead Kaizen events to solve people or customer issues. You will represent your team in the wider business, being accountable for creating the input, actions and representation of team performance in standard meeting routines such as metric calls. You will also be a key partner for business teams when operational points of contact to co-ordinate launches, messaging or reviews are required.
Basic Qualifications
Leadership
Skill Requirements:
Operational Delivery
Continuous Improvement
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications listed at this time, refer to basic qualifications
“Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and Employment Equity within the workplace, and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates.”
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