# Area Manager

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

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/flexport/jobs/7819243?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

## Job Description

We are currently seeking an Area Manager to launch and operate one of our inaugural fulfillment centers. 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.

### 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.

## Skills

### Required
- team management
- communication
- safety protocols
- inventory management
- quality control
- problem-solving
- strategic planning

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