# Area Manager - New Grad

**Company**: Flexport
**Location**: Phillipsburg, NJ
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Logistics

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/flexport/jobs/8070269?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_8d840de4-441

## Description

This is a launchpad role for recent graduates who want to lead people and operations from day one. You'll join the team at our established Phillipsburg fulfillment center , stepping into a people-leader role on the operating floor, managing a team and a process, and building the foundation of a career in operations leadership.

You will:

- Coach, manage, and develop a team of 30–100 with training and support from your site leadership as you ramp up.

- Communicate policies to your team and act as the primary information source for the team, maintaining compliance and consistency, and taking corrective action when needed.

- Create, manage, and support recognition programs across your department.

- Support all safety programs and OSHA compliance to ensure a safe work environment for all associates.

- Own performance reporting for your areas of responsibility within the FC, including on-time receiving and shipping, inventory accuracy, and packing quality.

- Hold yourself and your team to clear SLA expectations, providing concise verbal and written reports of performance and action plans when needed.

- Facilitate troubleshooting with cross-functional partners on fulfillment-related problems.

- Serve as an escalation point to help mitigate risks and resolve issues.

- Measure and respond to gaps in inventory accuracy, helping identify root causes and resolve them.

- Review defect rates to identify trends and surface opportunities to improve operations.

- Track learnings and best practices to contribute to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

- Help prioritize the resolution of systemic problems, working closely with our Growth and Engineering teams.

You should have:

- A bachelor's degree completed within the last 12 months, or expected within the next few months.

- Demonstrated leadership experience , this can come from campus organizations, athletics, ROTC/military, student government, internships, or part-time or summer jobs.

- Strong problem-solving skills and comfort learning new processes quickly in a fast-paced environment.

- Strong computer literacy, including comfort with Google Sheets/Excel.

- Clear, confident written and verbal communication skills.

- A collaborative, personable approach with a strong affinity for working cross-functionally.

- Great attention to detail and an appreciation for the complexity behind consistent day-to-day operations.

- Willingness and ability to work any permanent shift, which may include overnights, holidays, and weekend overlap.

## Skills

### Required
- leadership
- problem-solving
- communication
- Google Sheets/Excel
- attention to detail

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Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/flexport/jobs/8070269?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)