operations and programme management
What counts as an achievement for a operations manager on LinkedIn
An achievement in operations is a throughput number and a cost or time per unit that came down.
- they screen on
- throughput, cost per unit, headcount coordinated, cycle time
- the decision
- They are deciding whether you make a process cheaper or faster in a way they can put on a page.
- questions below
- 5
duty line
Responsible for overseeing daily operations and improving processes.
no throughput, no cost per unit, no cycle time
achievement line
Moved 22k orders a month through 4 sites, cutting cost per order from $7.40 to $4.90 and cycle time 31%.
Same operations manager, same career. The difference is that somebody asked for the numbers.
The 5 questions that produce those numbers
These are the questions a recruiter screening operations recruiters asks on a call. Answer them on paper and your profile writes itself.
the question
why it is asked
unit
1
What volume did your operation move — orders, cases, shipments or projects?
throughput is how an operations role is sized
count per week or month
2
What did you do to cost per unit or total operating cost?
operations is funded on cost, and cost is checkable
% or currency
3
Which cycle time or SLA did you improve, from what to what?
a time with two ends is the cleanest operations proof
days or hours
4
How many people, teams or vendors did you coordinate?
coordination scope is the honest signal of seniority
people or vendors
5
What was the largest change you rolled out, and what did it deliver?
one named rollout beats a list of responsibilities
project plus result
Write your answer to each one down. A figure you cannot remember exactly is still better as a range than as a duty.
Why a operations manager’s profile ends up with none of these numbers in it
Operations is the most quantified job in the company and the least quantified on LinkedIn. You had a number per unit. Put it back.
A grader cannot fix this. It can only reword the lines already on the page, and those lines are the problem — there is no throughput figure in them for it to find. The numbers were never written down, so they have to be asked for.
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