Remember to describe the problem, what you did to address it, and the impact your analysis had on the situation. Also, scenarios that have more than one area of impact resonate with interviewers.

"In my current role, I am a project manager for a company that implements warehousing and inventory management solutions. I began at the company as a project manager working to upgrade the ERP of a major food retailer. I was told that the client fully understood the needs of the project and that my role would mostly be to coordinate work and ensure everyone stayed on track.

I prefer to back my assertions up properly before making recommendations that will heavily impact a project. In this case the stakeholder was pushing several solutions that would adversely impact operations in several of their warehouses he did not work in directly. I traveled to those sites and met with the stakeholders there and they expressed concerns. I was able to work with them to gather data specific to their locations and prove that the solutions as designed would cause significant issues with their inventory processing.

I worked with my team to propose an alternate solution that would better serve the needs of the entire stakeholder group. I presented my analysis to my senior leaders and the senior stakeholders for the project. I was thanked for uncovering the issue before the previous design was built and implemented. My instinct to reach out to my downstream clients and support their case through data saved their company time and money and served to build trust and customer service points for my company."