Area Manager, Grocery Distribution Center
Hagerstown, MDJob$70–91K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
Amazon seeks a customer-focused Area Manager to lead hourly employees at a grocery distribution center. The role focuses on engaging the team during shifts, maintaining safety, quality, attendance, and performance, and meeting customer delivery expectations. The manager collaborates with support teams to meet business objectives and helps develop best practices across stocking and sorting 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 Distribution Centers are facilities that house Amazon's selection of fresh food and other specialty products. These multi-temperature facilities supply both Amazon Fresh and our fulfillment centers that support our same-day delivery service. At our distribution 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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2+ 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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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.
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, MD, Hagerstown - 70,000.00 - 90,900.00 USD annually
How this job compares
Set against the 884 open Area Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$70–91K/yr
- US median$70–91K/yr730 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $80K, is close to the US median midpoint ($80K) — in the middle half of Area Manager salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 12 open Area Manager jobs in Maryland and 884 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Amazon (this employer)463 open
- Walmart152 open
- McDonald's21 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Area Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (566 postings).
- Education
- 319 of the 884 open Area Manager jobs (36%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 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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