Learning Area Manager

Description

SAUDI NATIONALS ONLY

Amazon strives to be Earth’s best employer, and our Learning Managers help us achieve that goal by providing rewarding career opportunities to everyone who joins us. In this role, you’ll work across multiple sites, ensuring our people are getting the training and development they need. By making sure our employees are always improving their skills, you will also make an impact on the experience of our customers around the world.

Execution & Analysis

• Ensure that training is tracked and recorded, including progress and skill sets.
• As needed, manage grant proposals including implementation, tracking and relationship management.
• Create, manage and update training content and associate compliance audits.
• Administer methods for gathering and tracking training metrics.
• Analyze and understand data to suggest improvements for training and operations.
• Track and communicate Learning Department goals, assignments and progress locally and at a network level.
• Take ongoing responsibility for ensuring that the First, Middle and Last Mile Transportation is operating safely and take immediate action to correct where necessary.
• Owner of PIT Training Program and maintains proper documentation related to PIT certification.
  
  

The Learning Area Manager Will

Actively manage a team of Learning Associates including their deployment, development and productivity. Ensure that the work of the team and individuals is continually aligned to meet internal customer’s needs. Act as a proactive and productive liaison/partner with the corporate department consistently seeking to make a positive impact on key business safety, quality, productivity, and customer experience metrics.

Learning Area Manager must be proficient in English (Reading, Speaking, Writing, Listening).

As part of our commitment to complying with national labor laws and applicable legislation in Saudi Arabia, this position is open to candidates who fulfill the specific nationality criteria stipulated by local regulations.

Key job responsibilities

Key job responsibilities

Employee Development

• Foster the development and growth of Amazon employees (i.e., mentoring, teaching, etc.).
• Implement and execute training programs for associates, managers, trainers and others (i.e., participating in and conducting needs analysis, skills development classes, cross-training, etc.).
• Facilitate orientation and training classes; communicate policies and procedures to managers and new employees as needed.
• Ensure that the Learning Department creates/updates accurate and useful information for Training schools, PMVs, SJIs, and other training aids/visuals.
• Actively seek, clarify and understand information from Operations and Area Managers that leads to an understanding and ownership of Trans performance goals and required YOY improvements. Provide training assistance where necessary in order to achieve these goals. Fully understand workflow, daily production goals and reports used to drive the business.
• React quickly and efficiently to production imperatives, scheduling conflicts and network-wide roll outs.
• Ensure and drive best practices standardization across all departments and sites.
• Ensure network standard training programs are implemented and consistently utilized as required in the fulfillment center.
  
  

About The Team

The Learning Area Manager is an active member of the Fulfillment Center Operations Learning team, driving and supporting network-wide initiatives. Successful candidates will have a creative, true hands-on approach to execute the day to day actions ensuring daily and weekly compliance is met and data-driven, analytical thinking skills. In addition, effective presentation and persuasion skills are a must. This role requires the ability to influence without authority.

Furthermore, the role will partner very closely with Operations and there will be a requirement to understand the warehouse process operation. Execution skills are a must in being able to deliver daily coaching to support the development of our warehouse associates. The role will be based in our Fulfillment Center, in a fast-paced consumer goods environment.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of employee and performance management experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or 2+ years of Amazon (blue badge/FTE) experience
• 2+ years of performance metrics, process improvement or lean techniques experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing
  
  

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Company - Afaq - Warehouse Branch

Job ID: A3057939