General Interview ?'s

Question 1

Tell me about yourself and why you are interested in this role

Answer 1

I’ve always been a data driven person – this started in undergrad (quan econ + ticket model)

then served in USMC (mention EBRG)

went to business school - got really interested in healthcare - found Merck + finance

after joining merck and doing finance data - got really interested in DS + healthcare –> MIDS while supporting the CSO

now excited to take my leadership from USMC, business/strategy experience, data science to add value to the business

Question 2

What are your long-term aspirations and how does this get you there?

Answer 2

Long-term goal is to be a commercial leader (GM of Global Franchise) - in future those individuals are going to have to use data – so my goal is to be a data science savvy commercial leader

Question 3

Strengths

Answer 3

• Discipline / work ethic
• Fast learner – able to quickly get up to speed on new area
• Communication and collaboration: Can effectively communicate with a data analysts and business stakeholders to garner alignment and drive work forward
• Data science toolkit: Quickly developing data science toolkit (python, ML, R, experiments, SQL)

Question 4

Weaknesses

Answer 4

Project management rigor
Influencing sr. stakeholders
Pushing back when appropriate

Question 5

Greatest achievement

Answer 5

@Merck - ERM/CM program

@USMC - Establishing new HQ for IqM

Question 6

Talk about conflict and how you overcame it

Answer 6

CSO / GS / Regina – took a collaborative leadership style and spent time 1:1 to build trust and relationship and led without formal leadership authority

Question 7

Talk about leadership experience

Answer 7

Veterans EBRG

Leadership within finance program + school captain for Wharton

Question 8

Disagreed with decision + action

Answer 8

FoF communication plan

Question 9

How would your boss and co-workers describe you?

Answer 9

Extremely hardworking, thoughtful, and collaborative. Tend to be on the quieter end unless there’s something I feel it’s really important to be vocal about.

Question 10

Mistake

Answer 10

Jumping too quickly into workshop planning and execution and realizing need for external support

Was very open with our stakeholders and explained the need to bring in additional support