Full-Time MBA Program · David Eccles School of Business · Career Readiness Studio

Operations & Supply Chain Manager
Interview Playbook

Practice the full arc of a manager interview — diagnose, quantify, lead, and recommend — across manufacturing, planning & S&OP, logistics, procurement, and continuous improvement.

Question Bank

120 manager-level questions across 12 categories. Click any question to reveal a spoken-style answer, the technical deep dive, a coaching note, and the red flag to avoid.

Scenario Library

30 operational situations to diagnose and resolve — the ops equivalent of a case. Each has a realistic exhibit, the analysis required, a strong-answer path, and a crisp recommendation with the key risk and next steps.

Frameworks

20 operations frameworks. The point is to customize the tool to the situation, not recite it — each card shows when to reach for it, how it is structured, a worked example, and the customization that separates strong candidates.

Quant & Metrics Drills

18 operations calculations you should be able to set up and talk through aloud — from EOQ and safety stock to OEE, takt time, Little's Law, MAPE, and total landed cost.

Leadership & Behavioral

20 people-management prompts weighted for a manager role. Each shows what the interviewer is testing, a strong manager-level answer, the STAR structure, how to elevate it to senior-manager level, and the red flags.

Battlecard

Quick-reference groups for the night before and the walk to the room — must-know concepts, the KPI cheat sheet, the 8 wastes, structured problem-solving, and the differentiators that win final rounds.

Red Flags

20 mistakes that make a hiring manager wince — and the fix for each.

Readiness Dashboard

A closed loop: practice a question, generate the AI coaching prompt, then paste the AI's reply back here. The tool parses the scores and tracks your averages over time — the AI assesses, the tool tracks. No manual sliders.

How the loop works. Open any question or scenario → Practice → record or type your answer → Generate AI coaching prompt → paste it into your AI assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) → copy the model's full reply → paste it in the log box below. Your competency averages and overall level update automatically.
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