Her Story
About Meghan
Meghan Andrews serves as Store Manager at Signet Jewelers, where she has worked for a little over a year. With around 20 years in sales, she began her career in waitressing for six and a half years before advancing through call centers into escalations and leadership roles. She earned her bachelor's degree in Human Services Management while pregnant with her first daughter. In her current role, Meghan opens and closes the store, manages operations including special events and repairs, handles customer complaints, trains her team, and ensures smooth store performance. She attributes her success to pure determination, viewing success as a daily choice. Meghan values honesty and integrity in her professional life, focusing on transparency and helping customers as part of their love stories in the jewelry business. She advises women entering the industry to do their best each day, recognizing they are just as capable as anyone else. Opportunities for growth exist within the large company culture at Signet Jewelers, though challenges include navigating management personalities and internal politics.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Meghan
01What do you attribute your success to?
I think that it's pure determination. You have to go in and want to succeed every day. Every day, it's a choice to succeed.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
It's actually from my little brother. Sometimes sales can be brutal, working with different personalities can be brutal, and it can get disheartening sometimes. You know, cause, there's a lot of competition, and my brother told me, you go in every day and be the best that you can be, so that, people have nothing to say about you but anything good. It's mischief with a smile.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
To women entering the industry, I would say it can be very fast-paced, it can be brutal, but you can do it. You go in every day and do your best. And you are just as capable as anybody else in the room.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Opportunities in my industry is that there is always room to grow. Signet Jewelers is a very large company with a great company culture. If I choose, I can continue to move up. Challenges would definitely be working with some of the different personalities between management. So I came in from outside, I wasn't as tenured, so I have had to build my own credibility.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Honesty and integrity, very much in my professional life. In sales, there's a lot of people that will try to like just kind of fast talk you into something. I'm very much into helping my customer. In the jewelry business, I love it because we get to be part of a love story. So, I really want to find what works for my customer. I want to be transparent, and honest in everything. In my personal life, it's very much similar. It's love and respect. Tere's a rule in my house, we speak to each other with love and respect.
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