Area Manager, Regional Operations
We're transforming the grocery industry
Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Since 2012, we’ve been working towards creating a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together.
Groceries delivered to your door in as little as an hour. It seems simple, right? Well, it’s more complex than that. From re-routing deliveries during snowstorms, to connecting customers with coupons and deals for their favorite brands, to updating over half a billion grocery data lines every night...our efforts bring Instacart closer to being the operating system for the grocery industry.
Solving these problems is what helps our customers get back time in their day, so they can do more of what they love.
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OVERVIEW
Our Instacart Operations team is seeking an Area Manager for the Regional Operations team.
About our Regional Operations team: The Regional Operations team drives success and engagement for all shoppers by working locally to build relationships, understand and address their needs, and help support them in serving their customers. Regional Operations will work hand-in-hand with other teams to drive operational goals forward.
Highlights: Operations is core to Instacart’s success, and as such, our team moves fast and thrives on solving difficult problems. As an Area Manager you’ll drive success and engagement for all shoppers by working locally to build relationships, understand and address their needs, and support them in serving their customers. You’ll help support our full service shoppers, partner closely with retail partners, and drive initiatives that contribute directly to our most important company goals. Our Area Managers have a tenacious appetite for driving operational excellence while challenging the status quo.
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ABOUT THE ROLE
- You will be the face of Instacart to thousands of shoppers, and will need to balance multiple tasks and competing priorities each day to ensure you are visible to cross-functional teams.
- Help build and execute initiatives to engage and support all shoppers in your region.
- Act as your area’s regional SME and work collaboratively with other operational pillars on shopper-facing product rollouts and initiatives.
- Contribute to regional growth through identifying new coverage areas and shopper acquisition strategies.
- Develop and manage relationships with the managers of your partner stores.
- Problem-solve and troubleshoot daily operational issues, approaching all facets with an analytical, data-driven mindset.
- Support local Market Managers and regional General Managers on impactful projects for continued operating efficiency and growth.
- Maintain a high emotional intelligence and ability to interact with a diverse contractor workforce.
- Provide an operational perspective to teams at HQ including logistics and community operations to ensure best practices and protocols.
- Spend up to 50% of time in the field (at retail locations, community events, and more)
ABOUT YOU
We rely on our values to guide our decisions: “Solve for the Customer”, “Every Minute Counts”, “This is Your Baby”, “Go Far, Together” and “Of Course, But Maybe”.
What does this mean for your role? We are looking for someone who has:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
- Written and verbal fluency in French and English
- At least 2 years of customer-facing experience
- Background in retail, finance, consulting, operations, or a similar role at a tech company
- Strong communication skills, can effectively communicate at the corporate and retail level
- Ability to interpret data and take a quantitative approach to decision making
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and self-motivated environment, enjoys autonomy
- Experience guiding creative solutions to complex problems
- High attention to detail and strong execution skills
- Comfortable with the tools of the trade (eg. Excel, Google Drive)
- Strong critical thinking ability in technical & non-technical issues
- Positive attitude and fortitude to work through ever-changing and dynamic operational conditions
Bonus if you…
- Have advanced experience with Excel
- Knowledge and experience with SQL and/or Tableau
- Exposure to P&L ownership, finances
- Lean/Six Sigma Certification
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