Logistics Director

Career Area: Business Management and Operations

Occupation Group: Logistics and Supply Chain Managers

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Logistics Director earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $129,782

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $103,395

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Directs and oversees logistics operations. Works to ensure timely delivery of products or materials. Directs and manages transportation, scheduling, distribution, delivery and other aspects of logistics operations.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Logistics Director is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
• Organizational Skills: Experience with a systematic process of structuring, integrating, co-ordinating task goals, and activities to resources in order to attain objectives.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Logistics: Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation.
• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Experience of analyzing a project or company and communicating it's success in terms of the measured performance of activities
• Supply Chain Management: In commerce, supply chain management (SCM), the management of the flow of goods and services, involves the movement and storage of raw materials, of work-in-process inventory, and of finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption.
• Supply Chain Knowledge: A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Logistics Director that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Contract Negotiation: Contract negotiation is the process of give and take the parties go through to reach an agreement.
• Supply Chain Improvement: Working experience making processes of supply chains more cost-efficient or better for an organization.
• Transportation Management: Working experience of Transportation Management. A transportation management system (TMS) is a subset of supply chain management concerning transportation operations and may be part of an enterprise resource planning system.
• Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Programs: Third-party logistics (abbreviated 3PL, or sometimes TPL) in logistics and supply chain management is a company's use of third-party businesses to outsource elements of the company's distribution and fulfillment services.
• Outbound Logistics: Working experience of Outbound Logistics, which is the process related to the storage and movement of the final product and the related information flows from the end of the production line to the end user.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Distribution Strategies: Working experience of Distribution Strategies, which refers to how effectively a firm gets its product to consumers and end users. Firms can sells their products directly to the consumer (direct distribution) or through intermediaries (indirect distributions).
• Inbound Logistics: Inbound logistics is an integral element of business operations for a manufacturing firm, involving the processes of receiving, storing and distributing raw materials for use in production.
• Carrier Relationship Management: Working experience of Carrier Relationship Management, which is ensuring positive, profitable relationships with trusted carrier partners.
• Supply Chain Strategy: Working experience of Supply Chain Strategy, which is an iterative process that evaluates the cost- benefit trade-offs of operational components. Business strategy involves leveraging the core competencies of the organization to achieve a defined high-level goal or objective.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Director Of Logistics
• Logistics Director
• Director, Logistics
• Director Logistics
• Director Customer Logistics

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• Supply Chain Director
• Inventory Control Manager
• Supply Chain Manager
• Demand Planning Manager
• Supply Chain Project Manager
• Logistics Manager