Amazon chooses Manchester as home for its UK HQ

New corporate office boosts tech titan's presence in North-West

Amazon has cut the ribbon on its first UK corporate office in Manchester.

The tech giant's office occupies all six floors of the Hanover Building in the city's Northern Quarter and measures 90,000 square feet, which the company expects "in time" to house 600 employees.

Among the roles currently being advertised are software developers, solutions architects and finance analysts across both Amazon and its cloud arm, AWS.

The company also has multiple opportunities in the Manchester office for graduates in both retail and business development.

The head office bolsters the tech giant's presence in the North, where it also has distribution centres in Manchester Airport, Warrington and Bolton, alongside a sortation centre and three delivery stations in the North-West. The new city office will bring its total headcount in the region to 6,000.

"I am delighted we're opening our first corporate office in the North of England today," said Doug Gurr, UK country manager at Amazon.

"Manchester offers an incredible talent pool, a thriving hub of fast-growing UK tech start-ups and is a centre of academic and intellectual excellence.

"We are already actively hiring for a range of skill sets for our new Manchester office, so if you've always wanted to build the future, come and build it with us."