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Operations manager

Covers process design, capacity planning, metrics, cost control, vendor management and leading people through change. Suits mid to senior operations leaders. Follow-ups push for real numbers, the trade-offs made and what the candidate personally owned.

Suits: Operations manager, Head of operations, Operations lead, Business operations manager

Questions
7 of 18
Length
35 min
Format
Voice or typed
Levels
Mid to Staff
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Example
  1. Interviewer: Tell me about a time you changed someone's mind at work. How did you go about it?

  2. Candidate: Our team wanted to rebuild the billing page from scratch, and I thought it was the wrong call, so we put together a plan to…

  3. Follow-up

    Interviewer: You said "we". What did you say yourself, and what finally changed their mind?

  4. Scored on

    • Process improvement30%
    • Planning and prioritisation25%
    • Data and metrics20%
    • People leadership25%

    Score, reasons and recording. Your team decides.

An example exchange. This interview's own questions open when you use it.

What it listens for, and how much each part counts.

Every answer is scored against this guide, with the reasoning written beside the score. You get the recording or the written answers too, and your team makes the call.

  • Process improvement30%
    Finds root causes and changes processes with measured results.
  • Planning and prioritisation25%
    Matches capacity to demand and makes clear trade-offs.
  • Data and metrics20%
    Uses the right numbers to spot problems and judge results.
  • People leadership25%
    Leads teams through change and handles performance fairly.
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