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Operations Manager

Target Thornton, CO On-site senior full-time

Salary

$73,000 - $132,000 per year

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Description

We are seeking an Operations Manager to join our Distribution and Receive Centers team. As an Operations Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring the efficient operation of our distribution centers, which are responsible for getting products to our guests as quickly as possible.

In this role, you will foster a "safety first" culture through awareness, training, and accountability. You will also be responsible for maximizing team productivity, growth, and development, and creating a positive work environment through real-time observation and specific, constructive, and actionable feedback.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Influencing with a focus on safety, leadership, excellence, self-motivation, problem-solving, and teamwork
  • Establishing yourself as an engaging and inclusive leader with ownership for the team's ability to maximize its productivity, growth, and development
  • Creating a positive work environment through real-time observation and specific, constructive, and actionable feedback
  • Working with a sense of urgency to ensure operational plans are executed, performance and budget goals are achieved, and teams are kept informed and coordinated across functions
  • Innovating with new approaches to process and method to increase efficiency and implement future process flow optimization
  • Finding root causes to problems in an environment of calculated risk and testing

Requirements:

  • Four-year degree or equivalent experience
  • Demonstrated leadership ability, with the ability to engage and motivate others
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
  • Good reasoning, conflict-management, and analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to access all areas of the Distribution Center, including the mezzanine platforms
  • Ability to read and interpret necessary policies and procedures to perform updates and operate systems and other programs within the Distribution Center

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive health benefits and programs, including medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and more
  • 401(k)
  • Employee discount
  • Short-term disability
  • Long-term disability
  • Paid sick leave
  • Paid national holidays
  • Paid vacation

Skills

Required

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