New Manchester office for Amazon

Amazon has announced the opening of a corporate office at The Hanover Building in Manchester – bringing 600 jobs to the region.

Hanover Building is located in the NOMA area of the city and the move is being touted as a major coup for the region. The announcement comes just months after the government agency GCHQ revealed it is opening an office in the city.

The agency will use cutting-edge technology and technical ingenuity to identify and disrupt threats to the UK. The aim is for the planned site, based in Manchester, to open in 2019 – bringing hundreds of new jobs to the city.

This will be Amazon’s first UK corporate office outside of London and will be home to a wide variety of teams which work on projects for Amazon’s customers around the world, including software development, machine learning and research and development.

“Manchester was at the heart of the industrial revolution and has a fantastic history of innovation”, said Doug Gurr, head of Amazon in the UK. “With the UK taking a leading role in the global tech, we are delighted to announce plans to open a new corporate office in the city. Our new office will be home to over 600 staff, many of whom will be focused on developing exciting new products and services used by Amazon customers around the world. The city offers an incredibly talented workforce and a budding tech scene with some of the most exciting, fast-growing tech companies in the UK situated here.”

In recent years Amazon opened two fulfilment centres in Manchester and last year welcomed hundreds of small businesses to its first Amazon Academy in the city.