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Sure. I’ve spent the last 8 years in general management and operations roles across tech-enabled services and consumer products. Most recently, I was an Operations Manager at a mid-sized logistics company (250+ employees). I led a team of 12, owning network planning, process improvement, and vendor performance. My biggest project there was redesigning our route planning process, which cut delivery times by 18% and reduced overtime costs by about $320K annually. Before that, I worked at a consumer electronics startup as a Business Operations Analyst. I partnered closely with product, sales, and finance to build dashboards, forecast demand, and streamline order-to-cash. One initiative—standardizing reporting across teams—reduced manual reporting time by ~40 hours per month and improved forecast accuracy from ~70% to 90%. In terms of tools, I’m very hands-on with Excel/Sheets, SQL, Tableau, and lightweight scripting in Python for analysis and automation.
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Walk me through a recent multi-channel digital marketing campaign you managed end-to-end. How did you set objectives, choose channels, allocate budget, and measure success?
In your resume you note improving or optimizing [a process, KPI, or metric]. What specific baseline metrics did you start from, what steps did you personally take, and how did you verify that the improvement was due to your changes rather than external factors?
On your resume you mention working on a cross-functional project (e.g., involving multiple teams or stakeholders). Describe a situation from that project where priorities conflicted—how did you navigate the trade-offs and what was the final outcome?
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