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• A degree.
• Relevant experience influencing and interacting with cross-functional teams successfully.
• Relevant logistics or operations experience.
• Relevant experience of developing value-added relationships, earning trust with multiple stakeholder groups both internal and external.
• Relevant experience effectively working with a variety of organizations, management levels, cultures, and personalities.
• Relevant experience handling execution of multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Relevant experience communicating effectively and a high bar for accuracy and detail.
• Relevant experience working independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

We are looking for a Fleet Operations Manager who is responsible for the safety, compliance, availability, and cost of the Fleet in the UK. The candidate will need to execute the strategy of the team and leverage best practices. This person will play a central role within the larger fleet organization.

Key job responsibilities

• Evaluate health and safety of fleet. Ensure vehicles are roadworthy and compliant with local regulations by performing audits, providing feedback and trends to leadership.
• Support product and programmes launches in Ireland. To be successful in this role, the Fleet Operations Manager is required to have strong operational knowledge, and understand the conditions of local markets.
• Tactically collaborate with multiple stakeholders, internal and external, in order to solve operational needs. The Fleet Operations Manager is responsible for executing a programme with ambiguous deliverables and align stakeholders to achieve daily business needs. They will be required to demonstrate the ability to negotiate and influence, showing backbone while dealing with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage deployment and availability of vehicles in the UK. This will require technical expertise to balance tradeoffs between cost, quality, and speed, and escalating to leadership when needed.
• This role will be based in one of our delivery stations in IE and UK, and requires ability to travel 20-30% of time across the assigned region.

About the team
Amazon Logistics, or AMZL, handles ‘last mile’ delivery duties in partnership with third-party distribution businesses. We utilise 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 logistics challenges and new ideas to reduce our carbon footprint, supported by a portfolio of cutting-edge vehicles (including Electric Vehicles) and technology to help us do just that.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Belfast, GBR | Edinburgh, GBR | Glasgow, GLG, GBR | Manchester, GBR

Preferred qualifications are not required to apply for a position at Amazon. If you have all the basic qualifications above, we’d love to hear from you.

• Advanced or master’s degree or MBA.
• Relevant Fleet Management or Operations experience, or equivalent background in mobility services.

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