What has been your biggest accomplishment in your current role?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Built a high performance team with high morale and motivation levels

Roadmap - defined clear roadmap for the team by working with all the
stakeholders from product, business, credit, risk, marketing, customer support
teams
Prioritisation - Defined a structure around how any task should be discussed,
ideation->stakeholder analysis, feasibility->PRD and then prioritisation among
stakeholders after doing cost benefit analysis
Organisation structure - created a robust team structure by creating autonomous
pods aligned with product and business to deliver on the companies vision
growth opportunities to people - provided opportunities to people to grow,
inviting external speakers
Recognition - started giving spot awards and recognising people in monthly
company wide newsletter
Culture of trust - giving visibility to the team about the roadmap covering the
WHY's. Letting them decide their OKR's, working model, philosophy
Fostering experimentation - started monthly ideation contest, where people from
any team can propose ideas and then we will look at the idea value, feasibility
and alignment with the company vision and they will be picked

Anonymous · Answer

During my career I manage a large number of projects, but one of the most
challenging ones was the development and launch of a Electromechanical module
for HP. This was very challenging for all parts involved, our company and the
customer because this was the first high-speed Inkjet printer designed for
high-volumes. I remember we had to manage a huge BOM with more than 3000
coponents.
As Program manager my role was to lead a cross-functional team including Design
Engineers, SW Engineers, Operations teams, Material procurement teams, quality
and logistics, among others to successfully launch the product to mass
production.
First, I kicked-off the project. For that, I shared with the team the project
scope, the goals to achieve, I shared the project plan with key milestones and
defined the roles and responsibilities for the different team members.
During execution, to maintain a clear communication, I set up design review
sessions with the entire engineering organization to ensure everyone was aligned
and fixing potential issues in advance. Besides, I led a weekly core-team
meeting where we assigned tasks to team members, and setting clear deadlines for
each task. To make these tasks easier to manage, I made sure tasks were broken
down into manageable sizes with clear descriptions and acceptance criteria. This
helped the team to stay focus on their deliveries and maintain speed.
Another important part was to manages Risks. I worked with the team to identify
and classify possible risk that might impact to the project deliverables. We
created a Risk matrix to monitor during the development process, and also a
project board with the main KPIs to achieve during each stage of the PDP.

To ensure quality, we defined different testing processes focused on the design,
and the process. We installed specific quality check for the documents and
devices delivered for each of the milestones of the PDP, as well as a clear
quality control in mass production.

Finally, for transparency, I reported on monthly basis to our company leaders
and customer about the project status, focusing on Timing, cost, quality and
scope.
By employing these strategies, we successfully launched our module on time
matching with all the requirements defined by our customer. This was a great
example of teamworking, and taught me the importance of breaking down large
projects into smaller and easy to manage pieces. Transparent and clear
communication was also a great lesson learned. This approach helped me to
improve in leading teams through complex problems.

Anonymous · Answer

My biggest accomplishment started when my manager asked me to move to Malaysia
to set up a new Factory and the Operations department in Kuala Lumpur.
T: It was my job to get all licenses and permits required to allow our factory
to run under the country's regulations. I had to define the different roles
needed like Product, Process, Quality and Planning engineers. In addition, it
was also my responsibility to manage the transfer of 3 different assembly lines
from China to Malaysia.
A: To make that happen, I kicked-off the project with the stakeholders to define
the goals, budget, andplan for the opening of the new factory. I defined all
milestones, and I collaborated with HR team to define the total HC needed, the
different roles, the timeline for each incorporation, and the budget. With the
Legal department, I worked closely to get the licenses and permits required for
our company to operate in Malaysia. Together with the Operations team, I worked
on the new factory layout, material readiness, staff training and the assembly
lines transfer plan from China to Malaysia.
R : After 9 months of deep collaboration with cross-functional teams, I
completed the project on time and withinbudget. It was a great learning
opportunity that challenged my program management and leadership skills.
Finally, the transfer resulted in a cost down of 5% for our customer in the
products transferred to Malaysia.

Anonymous · Answer

My biggest achievement in my current role was when I identified issues with the
current procedures, and addressed them; for example one process was entirely
manual, and I found a way to automatize it; I developed a new tool, collaborated
with several teams to make sure the tool was really efficient, took their
feedback into account, trained them. In the end we got rid of the backlog, we
could process 3 times more cases, and we could detect significantly more
suspicious transactions.

Anonymous · Answer

I believe my biggest achievement is building a high performing team amongst a
lot of chaos. I started as an engineering manager for replenishment team, soon
due to restructuring I was asked to lead a different BU called Parcel and I was
given the team from scratch, 8 months into this I heard the leadership is
deciding to put Parcel on KTLO and give me a new tier 1 service called channels.
This service was highly unstable with a lot of issues and tech debt. This
service was transitioned among 4 engg manager in past three years (4th me). 
TASK
My job was to do a successful transition of this service and keep the team
motivated
Actions
- When I got to. know about Parcel KTLO and having a new product under me, I
wanted to ensure this is communicated to the team clearly with empathy and I
wanted to ensure the team that this will only benefit their growth
- I started with a team meeting, shared a couple of wins that we did in parcel,
shared even though we did so much, Parcel is being put on KTLO for various xyz
reasons.
- I told them every crisis situation is an opportunity and by channels coming
under us, we can showcase that even the toughest of the services can be
maintained if the tech debt is continuously addressed
- Post team meeting I kept 1:1 with every member and listened them, helped
answer their questions
- A couple of team members did share that they felt proud about what they
developed in Parcel and were feeling sad that it was going in KTLO.
- I shared that products coming in KTLO happens sometime and this in no way
reflects the teams performance, infact our teams reputation is very good amongst
the leaders thats why they have given us the most important service (which is
also in the worst shape)
- Under previous engg managers there was minimal to no improvement in the
service on tech and product side because they were busy fixing on call issues
- I worked with the team to fix this by assigning ywo people to on call and rest
two on fixing the issues from root cause. 
- In a couple of months this gave us brwating space since the oncall issues
reduced directly impacting reduction in customer queries
- We got appreciated by leadership for this
Result
- Team members were highly motivated
- Learnt a lot
- Got appreciated by leadership for this hard works

Anonymous · Answer

After reviewing all of the HR processes, HRIS system I implemented Trainual
Software to have a better online SOP and training program for each department.

Anonymous · Answer

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> What am I most proud of, or what is my biggest achievement? I think the
> product that I'm currently working on is something that I am most proud of. It
> is a product that we call Journey Platform, and this is essentially a workflow
> logic mapping tool that can be triggered real time by customer behavior and or
> events in the app.To firm up the example, we wanted to explore creating a
> platform where when the customer opens the store page, we are then informed of
> this opening, and then we can send them a push notification with all the
> relevant details, as an example, the promos that are available to them, and so
> on. We could also then use this information to inform how the feed should
> change, what types of restaurants we should show, and so on.Building a
> platform tool like this has been very complicated because there are hundreds
> of thousands of different behaviors on the app that we need to first
> understand what is useful in onboarding, and what I mean by that are what are
> the key behaviors that get customers to convert, that get them to routine,
> that increase their order frequency, order size, and so on, and really
> leveraging what those behaviors are and turning them into accurate indicators
> of events on the app that we could then use.This platform not just powers the
> audience targeting piece of things, but also does evaluation of logic and
> says, hey, if this customer was targeted, but they ordered a grocery in the
> last seven days, then don't do this or don't do that, based on the campaign,
> specifically.In addition to that, it is becoming a one-stop shop where we are
> able to not just look at audience targeting and promo eligibility, but now
> we're going to be able to send in-house communications, trigger placements
> within the app, trigger dynamic content, and so on. Historically, this has
> been done by seven or 10 different products across the app, each with their
> own PMs, engineering teams, mandates, growth goals, and so on, so really
> centralizing it in one app not just allows for easier implementation, but also
> allows for coordination across different programs and better customer
> experiences.

Anonymous · Answer

In my current role, there have been both personal as well as professional
achievements
First is that my current role is based away from my hometown. This has been the
first step towards pushing me out of my comfort zone and has helped me learn
some important life skills - negotiation, relationship building and healthy
living
My role requires me to turn around research(s) in a short span. This barely
leaves us any time to find an agency, delegate the recruitment and interview. In
order to deliver, it was important to ace the skill of interviewing via cold
calling which we also know as CATI interviews. So, building on a pitch that
earns you trust of someone who you’ve never met is a skill that I have learnt
here.

Anonymous · Answer

I sharpen and grow different skills for different roles that I play. For the
role of a leader, the ability to Build and grow a team, provide a buziness
roadmap, a technical charter is important which I got multiple opportunities in
my tenure. My leadership style is being Democratic, inspiring and collaborative.
In my current organization I built fundamentals team from ground up, let this
team to deliver mutiple charters around security, reliability , resource
governance. I further expanded the group to own back end store layer components.
This ability to build and lead a team helped me in my current endaevour as well.

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