Senior Distribution Manager, Last Mile Operations

Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or 2+ years of Amazon (blue badge/FTE) experience- 7+ years of general experience- Fluent in English and Spanish, both written and verbal- 5+ years of employee and performance management experienceAt Amazon, our aim is to be the most customer-centric company on earth. Our customers experience is influenced significantly by how we fulfil and deliver customer orders. The goal of Amazon’s Last Mile teams is to exceed the expectations of our customers by ensuring that their orders, no matter how large or small, are delivered as quickly, accurately, and cost effectively as possible. To meet this goal, Amazon is continually striving to innovate and provide best in class experience through the introduction of pioneering new products and services in the last mile arena.Delivery Stations are at the heart of Amazon's rapidly growing Operations and Logistics network: they're where we sort and process our parcels to be dispatched. Our Delivery Stations work as smart as they can to continuously delight our valued customers with their products: our top-line vision is to remove all effort on behalf of our end-users, while continuing to exceed everyone’s expectations whenever we can.A Senior Distribution Manager leads a team of Process Assistants and Delivery Service Partners (DSPs) in daily management of the delivery station, including meetings, training sessions, assigning job duties, and communicating with DSPs including management representatives and their drivers. Manages site and oversees performance, manages support functions and external stake holders, defines site vision, builds positive work culture and leads leadership routines.This role is responsible for ensuring a safe operative shop floor and yard that will see the operation of 700+ vehicles daily, more than 280+ properly trained associates, and addressing associate needs so they can focus on their jobs. In addition, one of the most important aspects of this job is to lead change at new launches, 50,000+ deliveries for customers per day, increase customer service level and create strategies together with stakeholders in order to create a road map to be the best employer in the earth.**Job Specifics**:- This work requires to work a flexible schedule/shift/work area, including weekends, nights, and/or holidays.AmazonMexicoKey job responsibilities- Responsible for key metrics include, but are not limited to: Safety Metrics, On-The-Road Metrics, Under the Roof Metrics and Cost Metrics including lead Savings projects.- Responsible for goals in an area where the strategy may not yet be defined.- Establish workflows, SLAs, and operational excellence mechanisms at the site.- CX&Q performance metrics: Safety, Driver, Productivity, Quality, Delivery, Cost and develop detailed plans for improvement in the metrics basis the operating vision and current performance standards with ACES and DSP.- Participate in all leadership routines including DBR, WBR, MBR.- Lead the implementation of new processes and improvements (including benchmarking process standards).- Weekly operational planning including manager’s roster, labor model, volume delivery, IT and non IT 4M, preventive maintenance and breakdown review.- Associate Connect: Connect 1:1 with few AA’s daily and address AA barriers.- Coordinate with support functions for all change management/ site improvement initiatives.A day in the lifeYou’ll be based at one of our operational sites. Spending lots of time on site will help you develop your team and collaborate on operational planning. This role has two sides. You’ll manage and motivate a team of leaders. At the same time, you’ll focus on long-term objectives. This includes creating contingency plans to keep operations running and mitigate against disruptions and driving initiatives that boost quality, safety and productivity. You’ll be a source of accountability and a business-wide champion of best practice.About the teamAmazon Logistics, or AMZL, handles ‘last mile’ delivery duties in partnership with third-party distribution businesses. We utilize creative thinking and continuous improvement initiatives to get millions of physical products into the hands of our customers. Our goal is to make our customers’ delivery experience as smooth as possible and roll out global delivery solutions for our newest concepts, like Amazon Fresh, Prime Now and Amazon Restaurants.There are two sides to what we do. Our ‘under the roof’ associates process millions of products for dispatch to our delivery teams. Our team is people-focused and supportive, particularly as lots of our people work through the night. We focus mostly on operations, with 24/7 shifts in most of our locations.Meanwhile, our ‘on the road’ people work with Amazon Flex - a network of delivery contractors. Every year, we continually raise the bar for customer experience with new, innovative delivery services. We look for new ways to overcome industry wide l