Are right, a lot Flashcards
Tell me about a time when you didn’t have enough data to make the right decision.
When I was working for Nike Well Collective, there was no data since its a concept store. In order to make decisions, I had to do my own research through store visits, interviewing the geos, and working closely with the Merchandising manager. Took out fleece from the wall which was taking up too much real estate
Tell me about a strategic decision you had to make without clear data or benchmarks?
Tell me about a time when you made a difficult decision with input from many different sources.
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We don’t always make the right decision all the time. Tell me about a time when you made a bad decision.
When I was working at Caesars, I knew I made a bad decision when I started doing the heavy lifting of the store team, because it led them to expect that from me every visit.
When I was at Caesars, it is my duty to make my rounds of each store in my pod to make sure new shipments and collections were merchandised properly.
I am there to help and guide and not merchandise and do floor moves for them. But there are times when they are short staffed or busy so I do a little more work than usual.
One of my stores had a completely I had a team of unenthusiastic college kids which was hard to coach and was taking longer than usual to get the floor in place so I
This slowly became a regular thing and the store team started expecting that to be my job.
since then I have made it my goal to truly involve the store team to merchandise the store
We don’t always make the right judgement all the time. Tell me about a time when you made an error in judgment.
I made an error in judgment when I had assumed the stores lack of interest based on their actions.
When I opened the Nike Rise store in Bellevue Square this year, the store team deviated to
Once I had started talking to the associates and got excited over products and outfitting, I asked them “would you like to style?”
Tell me about a time when you discovered that your idea was not the best course of action.
I discovered that my idea was not the best course of action when I started doing the heavy lifting for my store team.
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Describe a time when you brought different perspectives together to solve a problem.
I solved a problem by alleviating wall space for a Nike concept store.
After speaking to the geos, it quickly realized that capacity is always an issue in all of the stores and always short of wall space which is prime real estate for merchandising.
Spoke to store development team and creating a new fixture package was not realistic. IT requires more time and budget to forgo this.
I had an unpopular opinion of removing the fleece off the walls and condense it down to a smaller fixture
