One twenty-minute conversation at a logistics meetup became an internal job posting that arrived in my inbox before it was on the company's careers page.
I had been an operations manager at a small ecommerce company in Mexico City for three years. The company grew fast for two years and then stopped growing. There was nothing more I could change there. I wanted a job at a logistics company, but nothing was happening. Part of the reason was that I was not really applying. The other part was that most logistics companies in CDMX do not post their jobs publicly, so it was hard to know what was open. I went to a logistics meetup in late autumn, mostly because a friend was speaking. The COO of a logistics company in the city was in the audience, and we stood next to each other in the coffee break. We talked for about twenty minutes. She told me about a problem her team had at that moment: how to grow warehouse operations from one site to four. I told her how we solved a similar problem at my company, but at half the size. We exchanged WhatsApp numbers because she wanted to send me a paper she had been reading about it. Three weeks later she wrote to me. Her team was going to post an operations manager job, and she wanted to talk to ↓