Area Manager, Grocery Fulfillment Center
Santa Clara, CAJob$73–83K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Amazon seeks a customer-focused Area Manager to lead hourly employees at a Grocery Fulfillment Center. The manager engages and motivates the team during shifts, maintains safety, quality, attendance, and performance, and helps ensure customer orders are delivered on time and to the right location. The role collaborates with support teams to meet business objectives and supports grocery fulfillment operations.
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Description
We are looking for motivated, customer-focused individuals who want to join our team as an Area Manager. In this role, you will lead a team of hourly employees and will be responsible for engaging your team during their shifts to maintain the highest levels of safety, quality, attendance, and performance. You will also play a key part in maintaining our customer expectations to ensure customer orders are delivered at the right time, to the right location.
Key job responsibilities
Support, mentor, and motivate your team
Manage safety, quality, productivity, and customer delivery promises
Collaborate with all support teams including Safety, Ops Integration, Loss Prevention and Human Resources to develop plans to meet business objectives
Lift up to 49 pounds, stand and walk during shifts lasting up to 12 hours, and frequently push, pull, squat, bend, and reach, as well as continuously climb and descend stairs
Work in an environment where the noise level varies and is subject to variable temperatures and weather (delivery stations include outside loading departments, and grocery locations include refrigerated environments)
Work a flexible schedule (weekends and/or overnight shifts)
About the team
Grocery Fulfillment Centers are facilities that house Amazon's selection of fresh food and other specialty products. These multi-temperature facilities support our same-day delivery service. At our fulfilment centers, you'll focus on safety in all stocking and sorting tasks, while helping to develop best practices. Your contributions will enhance your sites operations and could potentially improve processes across our entire network. Join us and help shape the future of grocery!
Basic Qualifications
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1+ years of employee and performance management experience
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or 2+ years of Amazon (blue badge/FTE) experience
Preferred Qualifications
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Work a flexible schedule/shift/work area, including weekends, nights, and/or holidays
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Can push and pull wheeled dollies loaded with products up to 100 pounds during shifts
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1+ years of performance metrics, process improvement or lean techniques experience
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, CA, Santa Clara - 73,300.00 - 82,500.00 USD annually
How this job compares
Set against the 997 open Area Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$73–83K/yr
- California median$73–91K/yr74 salary ranges
- US median$70–91K/yr735 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $78K, is 5% below the California median midpoint ($82K) — in the lowest quarter of Area Manager salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 94 open Area Manager jobs in California and 997 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Amazon (this employer)47 open
- Ross Stores, Inc.15 open
- Walmart8 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Area Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 561 postings).
- Education
- 342 of the 997 open Area Manager jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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