Sort Center Manager

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JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE

Employment: Full Time

Description:

Sortation Centre Manager

Souq.com is the largest ecommerce site in the Arab world. Every month, Souq.com attracts more than 41 million visits to its catalogue of more than 8.5 million unique products in 35 different categories, including consumer electronics, household goods, fashion, watches, perfumes, toys, and baby products.

Established in 2005, Souq.com today operates both as an award-winning retail business and an online marketplace that allows SMEs, merchants, brands and distributors to distribute their products online.

With more than 4,000 employees, We have offices and local operations in UAE, Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and leading Product and Engineering centers in Jordan and India, offering a unique opportunity to join the leading player in an ever growing and exciting industry.

Your Responsibilities:

· At a high level, you'll keep several consistent, major deliverables in mind, including comprehensive process and workflow optimisation. We are always hungry to improve wherever they can, and in your role you'll perform to the same standard.
· As just one of your day-to-day duties, you will be managing an Outbound parcel delivery operation: this will mean you overseeing performance, and carrying out any necessary examinations at weekly, monthly and annual intervals. This will help you ensure that your colleagues and peers all operate at optimum productivity levels.
· Leading on from this, you will drive towards greater team efficiency. All throughout achieving this goal, you'll balance your team's efforts to improve, with their steadfast commitment to excellent customer service. Together as one unit, you'll exceed productivity goals, and ensure that Souq continues to delight the customer, and exceed expectations wherever possible.
· At the more granular level, you'll manage and coordinate staffing plans, schedules, quality initiatives and process change initiatives, as you steadily work towards attaining the Souq Business Plan. Moreover, each and every day, you; will develop, encourage and strengthen our strong culture of Health and Safety best practices, alongside participating in cross-functional Process and Business improvement projects elsewhere in the Souq Operations network.

REQUIREMENTS

Basic Qualifications:

· You hold a Degree in Engineering, Operations or in a related Logistics field,
· You possess excellent technical skills, that you can utilise as you solve a wide range of problems and obstacles,
· A Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) would be highly desirable,
· Demonstrable previous experience as a leader in the Transportation and Delivery industries, in a similar, fast-paced Logistics environment,
· You're a proven analytical thinker and project manager, with close attention-to-detail and the ability to positively influence others,
· You possess sound business acumen, with a track record of successfully delivering quantifiable results; you also have a solid understanding of and expertise in carrier operations,
· Accomplished professional history of delivering projects within scope and budget, on-time, while meeting required quality standards,
· Demonstrable ability in managing data and details, as you establish root cause, while extrapolating and manipulating data to deliver appropriate solutions,
· You're willing and able to work to flexible schedules and shifts: you always commit the time required to get the job done,
· You're a forward-thinking innovator who thrives on change, while remaining unfazed by occasional ambiguity,
· You're an excellent communicator, in fluent written and spoken English, with the ability to communicate at all levels of seniority within a large organisation,
· Some practical, working knowledge of Lean techniques, such as Kaizen or Six Sigma.

Preferred Qualifications

· We're looking forward to receiving your application preferably in English.

Souq is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae.

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