[Behavioral] Tell me about a time you had to learn a new category, supplier base, or system quickly.

One example was stepping into a category where I understood the general purchasing discipline but not the supplier landscape or risk profile yet. I knew the mistake would be pretending to be strategic too fast, so I focused first on the control points: what drove demand, which suppliers were critical, where performance had been unstable, and what the internal team actually cared about most.

I paired that with fast system...