# Area Manager

**Company**: Flexport
**Location**: Phillipsburg Warehouse
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Logistics

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/flexport/jobs/7698296
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_aca501aa-87f

## Description

## Job Title:

Area Manager

## Department:

Fulfillment

## Job Description:

As a key member of the Flexport team, you will take on the role of a people leader, responsible for managing a process and a team on the operating floor. This position offers a unique opportunity to invest in others and cultivate a collaborative leadership style.

## Responsibilities:

- Coach, manage, and develop a team of 30-100.

- Communicate policies to your team and act as the primary information source for the team, maintaining compliance, 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.

- Ensure procedures are followed for building security and product loss prevention.

- Be an integral part of our Operations team as an Area Manager of one of our largest fulfillment partners located across the country.

- Own performance reporting for your areas of responsibility within the FC, including, but not limited to, on-time receiving and shipping, inventory accuracy, and packing quality.

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

- Facilitate troubleshooting with relevant cross-functional parties for fulfillment-related problems.

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

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

- Review defect rates to identify trends and expose opportunities to improve operations both internally and across the network.

- 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.

## Requirements:

- 2+ years managing staff of 5 or more.

## Benefits:

- Competitive salary

- Comprehensive benefits package

- Opportunities for professional growth and development

- Collaborative and dynamic work environment

- Recognition and rewards for outstanding performance

## Skills

### Required
- Leadership
- Communication
- Team Management
- Safety Programs
- OSHA Compliance
- Inventory Management
- Performance Reporting
- Troubleshooting
- Risk Mitigation
- Inventory Accuracy
- Packing Quality