Area Manager

Chewy Chewy · Retail · Dayton, OH

Area Manager for Chewy's Fulfillment Center in Dayton, OH, responsible for leading hourly associates in receiving, storing, and shipping products. The role focuses on meeting productivity, labor, and quality objectives in a fast-paced e-commerce distribution environment. Key responsibilities include managing daily operations, ensuring standards are met, training associates, observing performance, handling employee relations, and driving process improvements through data analysis and associate feedback.

What you'd actually do

  1. Handle the fast pace associated with day-to-day operations in a fast-paced E-Commerce distribution environment and uphold a positive, motivating leadership presence
  2. Lead accurate unloading and put away of containers in timely basis to ensure containers are returned without additional charges and 100% accurate
  3. Ensure that accurate orientation and training occurs for hourly associates and verify standards are understood and adhered to
  4. Observe employee activities and offer assessments and encouraging acknowledgement on safety, quality of work, metrics, and demeanor
  5. Be able to investigate within a process and drive process improvements through associate feedback, analyzing data, and up channeling changes to acquire departmental goals

Skills

Required

  • Associate Degree
  • 2-4 years’ supervisory experience preferably in a warehouse or distribution center environment
  • Excellent interpersonal expertise
  • oral and written communication skills
  • strong attention to detail
  • Intermediate skills in working on computers – Microsoft office package and time keeping software solutions
  • Ability to work flexible schedule to include nights and weekends if business require it

Nice to have

  • Bachelors’ degree
  • Bilingual in Spanish