Operations Manager - Regional Distribution Center - Phoenix, Arizona

Target • Phoenix, AZ

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life, brought to life through its values and culture. A role in Distribution and Receive Centers is critical for getting product to guests quickly, impacting thousands of team members and guests worldwide. This involves focusing on regional or upstream distribution centers, target.com fulfillment centers, or import warehouses. The work encompasses Distribution Center Operations, driven by process and problem-solving; Quality Management, maintaining the brand's reputation; and Distribution Center Productivity, continuously analyzing and recalibrating support for people, process, and technology investments in an evolving business. An Operations Manager influences with a focus on safety, leadership, excellence, self-motivation, problem-solving, and teamwork. This role involves fostering a “safety first” culture through awareness, training, and accountability, and establishing oneself as an engaging and inclusive leader responsible for team productivity, growth, and development. The manager creates a positive work environment through real-time observation and constructive feedback. Working with urgency ensures operational plans are executed, performance and budget goals are achieved, and teams are informed and coordinated. The position offers autonomy to innovate with new process approaches for efficiency and future optimization, supported by an environment of calculated risk and testing to find root causes of problems. Commitment to others is demonstrated by helping teams meet business goals.

Requirements

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated leadership ability, with the ability to engage and motivate others
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Good reasoning, conflict-management, and analytical and problem-solving skills
• Able to access all areas of the Distribution Center, including the mezzanine platforms
• Able to read and interpret necessary policies and procedures to perform updates and operate systems and other programs within the Distribution Center, for example, ability to traverse conveyor crossovers

Responsibilities

• Foster a “safety first” culture through awareness, training and accountability
• Quickly establish yourself as an engaging and inclusive leader with ownership for the team’s ability to maximize its productivity, growth and development
• Create a positive work environment though real-time observation and specific, constructive and actionable feedback
• Work with a sense of urgency to ensure operational plans are executed, performance and budget goals are achieved and teams are kept informed and coordinated across functions
• Innovate with new approaches to process and method, all in the name of more efficiency and implementing future process flow optimization
• Find root causes to problems
• Jump right in to help teams meet their business goals

Benefits

• comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance
• 401(k)
• employee discount
• short term disability
• long term disability
• paid sick leave
• paid national holidays
• paid vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees