Amazon UK Services Ltd 2023 graduate opportunities
CompanyCompany Profile
Amazon delivers millions of products to hundreds of countries worldwide.
Our teams possess a wide range of skills and expertise, from business
analysis and inventory management to engineering. With more than 80
Fulfillment Centers worldwide, Amazon is growing at a pace that requires
the best and brightest talent to be brought in to our company to help us
continue to 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 will continue to enable people to discover new worlds. With every
order made and parcel delivered, customer demand is growing. To meet
this demand, and keep our world-class service running smoothly, we're
growing our Operations team across Europe.
Amazon is looking for ambitious and enthusiastic graduates to join the
fast paced world of Logistics in European Operations as a Graduate Area
Manager. This will be a permanent role from day one with structured
onboarding and plenty of training and support.
An Area Manager is a manager with a bias for action. You will manage
day-to-day operations in one of the segments from inbound to outbound
(receiving, stowing, picking, packing, and shipping) and liaise with
other departments to ensure a smooth flow of operations. Area Managers
need to be comfortable making decisions in constantly evolving
fast-paced environments. In Amazon, Area Managers are in charge of one
department within the Fulfillment Center and tasked to deliver the
targeted key performance indicators; As an Area Manager you will be
running systems and processes, you will be on the floor leading shifts
with a large team of Associates and Leads and you will be their primary
point of contact.
Furthermore, you will be responsible for measuring, evaluating and
improving the processes in the areas of Transportation, Supply Chain and
Logistics, obtaining and reporting on key metrics and data whilst
driving production within your area. Through your work, you will
continuously improve the functionality and level of service that the
Fulfilment Centre provides to our customers.
During the course of your graduate programme, you'll have the chance to
work alongside experienced leaders, giving you a unique insight into our
business and the skills you need to excel within it.
The initial phone interview lasted around 40 minutes, including time at the end for me to ask questions about the role and the company. <br/>
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The first questions were biographical, ensuring the details on your CV concerning your education were
What is your interview process? It depends. For most
positions, we begin the process with a phone interview. If there's
interest on both sides, we invite the candidate for an on-site
interview, typically with the hiring manager and several teammates. Each
team is unique, though, and some may have their own variation of the
interview process.
How long do you take to make a decision after an interview? Once
we've finished interviewing all of the selected candidates and completed
reference and background checks, we try to make a final decision within
a few business days.