Team Manager

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Join one of the most important teams at Amazon and make a difference. The Transaction Risk Management Investigations team is charged with safeguarding all Amazon marketplaces to ensure long-term buyer satisfaction with their experiences. We achieve this through a combination of automated and manual investigations of the buyers and sellers on our marketplace.

Due to extensive growth we require additional Team Managers/Investigations Managers for our thriving Cork Office, to help manage one of the Operations teams in our rapidly expanding function.

Key Responsibilities:
· Plan, direct and organise the day-to-day operation of a multi-lingual KYC Team.
· Maintain and improve staff engagement through effective people management and motivational techniques.
· Ensure that all productivity, quality standards and service level agreements are met through effective monitoring, coaching, counselling and training.
· Complete detailed analysis of operational performance metrics, and make data driven business decisions.
· Formulate and recommend practices to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the department.
· Continuously raise the performance bar by setting ambitious improvement objectives and exceeding them.
· Develop a strong working knowledge of our systems, policies, procedures and products to ensure that the department complies with our internal and external policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.
· Input to support our culture of continuous improvement and assist the delivery of products and services to meet our customer and business needs.
· Ensure that effective personal development plans are in place for each team member and that these provide a balance between supporting both individual and business goals and objectives.
· Develop employees and their skill sets to expand the team capabilities and provide growth opportunities for future Amazon leaders.
· Establish strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the business and support the development of global improvement initiatives.
· Provide an open door approach to supporting team requirements and ensure that regular communication sessions / team meetings / 121’s are in place to positively support our raise the bar philosophy.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· We seek a strong, self-driven leader with demonstrated ability to motivate, drive, manage and grow a fast paced operations team. This person should possess strong people and performance management skills, and ideally have at least three years’ experience in an operational people management role.
· She/he should also have a strong business acumen and be able to create, communicate and achieve a vision.
· Substantial people management experience ideally within a fast paced, metric driven operations team.
· Must possess exceptional and demonstrable operational, managerial, analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
· Advanced working knowledge of MS Office required (esp. MS Excel). Knowledge of SQL beneficial but not essential.
· Must be self-motivated with good attention to detail, commercial awareness with sound judgment and decision making skills.
· Have a proven ability to drive and motivate staff.