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Yazeed Atariwa

Summary

Ambitious leader with experience establishing and supporting teams to achieve organizational success. Exceptional ability to earn trust, uncover key business drivers and find common ground throughout departments. Management skills to design and coordinate multiple projects ensuring a high standard while meeting time constraints. Recognized for exceptional leadership and relationship-building abilities; capability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, executives, and key stakeholders to drive change, productivity, and operational goals. Driven to improve customer experience by being a challenger of conventional practices. Reliable Area Manager successful at operating in high-volume, fast-paced environment. Skilled in leading teams to meet objectives on stringent timelines. Empowering leader with superior communication and collaboration abilities demonstrated over 5 years of management performance.

Work History

Area Manager II (Stow)

Amazon
  • Lead and developed a team of 80+ non-exempt associates by motivating, mentoring and coaching
  • Planned and executed onboarding training across inbound shifts, including training of two operations managers
  • Implemented process changes at TPA4 during short term training assignment and carried over lessons learned to launch process change at TP1
  • Received most units on day 2 of a launch in the Amazon Traditional Non-sort network
  • Solved barrel bins capacity constraints by creating 127 new bins which increased barrel bin capacity by 13% overall
  • Alleviated space constraints by adding 5,280 bat bins to stow; 122% capacity increase to bat bins
  • Decreased total FPY defects (bin collisions) by 30%
  • Redesigned damage process across all shifts to decrease time spent processing by 50% and decrease total FPY by 14%.

Area Manager II (AFE)

Amazon
  • Alleviated space constraints by adding 5,280 bat bins to stow; 122% capacity increase to bat bins
  • Decreased total FPY defects (bin collisions) by 30%
  • Redesigned damage process across all shifts to decrease time spent processing by 50% and decrease total FPY by 14%
  • Created and Executed shift plans for the department
  • Using the knowledge of who were the strong players, was able to increase productivity by 25% in both Sort and Chuting metrics while simultaneously reducing overall defects by 38%
  • Supported all safety, quality and productivity programs to ensure a safe and fun working environment for associates and managers
  • Mentored, trained and developed a team of three Process Assistants and 6 L4 Area Managers
  • Acted as the primary information source for the entire AFE1 team, maintaining compliance and consistency, taking corrective actions when required
  • Created, communicated, and maintained quality control policies and standard work procedures for other Area Managers and Associates
  • Proactively identified and led process improvements using Lean tools
  • Led a new team into the best performing shift during Peak Season, out producing all other shifts by 15%-20%(15-25k units)
  • Increased Chuting/Sort rates 25%, while decreasing DPMO (Defects Per Million Opportunities) by 20%.

Education

Masters of Business Leadership (Management) -

The University of Toledo
Toledo, OH

Bachelor of Business Administration - Marketing/Professional Sales and Management

The University of Toledo
Toledo, OH

Skills

  • Expense Tracking
  • Staff Development
  • Workforce Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Policy Implementation
  • Operations Management
  • Performance Management
  • Performance Evaluations
  • Time Management
  • Team Leadership
  • Budget Control
  • Complex Problem-Solving

Timeline

Area Manager II (Stow)

Amazon

Area Manager II (AFE)

Amazon

Masters of Business Leadership (Management) -

The University of Toledo

Bachelor of Business Administration - Marketing/Professional Sales and Management

The University of Toledo

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