Operations Manager at ZaraProduct Manager

Building Products with
an Operations Mindset

Combining operational expertise, customer empathy, and continuous improvement to create products that deliver real value.

4y
At Zara · floor → ops
3
Case studies shipped
Top 2
Picked by HelloFresh eng
About

Hi, I'm Andrew.

I'm an operations professional with 4.5 years of experience at Zara, where I worked across store operations, customer experience, and process improvement in a fast-paced retail environment.

Through solving operational challenges, coordinating teams, and improving workflows, I developed a strong interest in Product Management. Today, I'm transitioning into Product roles, bringing a combination of operational expertise, customer empathy, and data-driven problem solving.

I enjoy continuous improvement, finding better ways of working, and creating experiences that increase customer satisfaction. Whether improving a process, solving a customer problem, or identifying opportunities for growth, I'm driven by the challenge of making things work better than they did yesterday.

4 years at Zara — the path so far
  1. 2022 — 2024
    Sales Assistant
    Zara · customer floor
  2. 2024 — 2025
    Operations Assistant
    Zara · store ops
  3. 2025 — 2026
    Operations Manager
    Zara · store ops
  4. 2026 →
    Product Manager
    Next chapter
Case studies

Three case studies in product thinking.

None of these were assigned to me. Each one started from a problem I couldn't stop thinking about — and an attempt to work through it the way a product manager would: problem, insight, solution, outcome.

Case 01/Serva · 2026
Personal venture · early-stage MVP

Serva — a community marketplace for internationals & immigrants in Germany

Living and working in Berlin made the gap obvious: international residents struggle to find trusted, affordable help for everyday needs — housing, moving, admin support, small jobs.

MVPStage
BerlinPilot city
TrustNorth-star theme
Visit app
Case 02/Zara · self-initiated
Product teardown

Fixing a Misleading Pickup Navigation Label in a Retail App

Customers picking up online orders at Zara consistently walk to the wrong floor.

CopySingle-line fix
0Engineering effort
In-storePitched to leadership
Case 03/HelloFresh · MSc team project
Validated by a senior HelloFresh engineer

Why HelloFresh Germany loses customers at the language barrier

HelloFresh ships to a Germany where roughly one in four residents has a migration background — yet the app is German-only.

Top 2Ideas chosen by HelloFresh senior engineer
Skills & Tools

What I bring, and what I work with.

Strengths shaped on the store floor and sharpened in product practice — paired with the tools I actually open every week.

Product thinking

Framing fuzzy problems into clear opportunities with measurable outcomes.

User research

Interviews, journey mapping, and surfacing the 'why' behind behavior.

Friction-finding

Spotting the small, daily breakages everyone has stopped noticing.

Operations

4 years at Zara — from sales assistant to operations manager — running flow, inventory and teams.

Communication

Translating insight between store floor, engineers and leadership.

Execution

Small bets, fast loops, clear metrics. Ship Monday, learn Tuesday.

Daily
5 tools
Figma
Daily
Notion
Daily
Tableau
Daily
MS Excel
Daily
AI tools
ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor
Often
5 tools
Linear
Often
Jira
Often
Miro
Often
Maze
Often
Amplitude
Often
Learning
1 tools
SQL
Learning
Resume

A short, honest CV.

The long version is one click away — the short version is below.

  1. 2025 — 2026

    Operations Manager

    · Zara

    Lead daily store ops: inventory flow, staffing, customer recovery, and continuous-improvement bets across a high-traffic store.

  2. 2024 — 2025

    Operations Assistant

    · Zara

    Supported store operations end-to-end — stock flow, shift coordination, and process fixes that compounded over weeks.

  3. 2022 — 2024

    Sales Assistant

    · Zara

    Learned the product, the rhythm of the floor, and how customers really behave when no one is watching.

  4. 2024 — 2025

    MSc, International Business Management

    · Postgraduate studies

    Applied strategy, analytics and user research to live problems at HelloFresh, Zara and my own venture, Serva.

Contact

Let's talk.

I'm looking for a first product role — APM, associate product manager, or product owner — at a team that values operators who learn fast.

Ready when you are

Open to product roles starting Q3 2026.