Supply Chain 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 Supply Chain Director earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $112,962

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $115,745

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Directs supply chain functions including logistics, materials, purchasing, distribution and inventory management. Develops and implements strategies for improving these functions and oversees operations. Looks for ways to streamline production, purchasing, warehousing and distribution and implement cost savings

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 Supply Chain Director is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• 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.
• Building Effective Relationships: Building relationships is about your ability to identify and initiate working relationships and to develop and maintain them in a way that is of mutual benefit to both yourself and the other party. Good relationships are the key to getting things done and are essential when your success is dependent on others.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• 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.
• 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.
• Logistics: Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation.
• Procurement: Procurement is the process of finding, agreeing terms and acquiring goods, services or works from an external source, often via a tendering or competitive bidding process.
• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.

Distinguishing Skills

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

• Capacity Planning: Capacity planning is the process of determining the production capacity needed by an organization to meet changing demands for its products.
• Supply Chain Coordination: Channel coordination (or supply chain coordination) aims at improving supply chain performance by aligning the plans and the objectives of individual enterprises.
• Supplier Management: The termsupply managementdescribes the methods and processes of modern corporate or institutionalbuying. This may be for the purchasing of supplies for internal use referred to as indirect goods and services, purchasing raw materials for the consumption during themanufacturingprocess, or for the purchasing of goods forinventoryto be resold asproductsin thedistributionandretailprocess.
• Supply Chain Planning: 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.
• Inventory Planning: The process of determining the optimal quantity and timing of inventory for the purpose of aligning it with sales and production capacity.

Salary Boosting Skills

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

• Distribution Center Planning: A distribution center for a set of products is a warehouse or other specialized building, often with refrigeration or air conditioning, which is stocked with products (goods) to be redistributed to retailers, to wholesalers, or directly to consumers.
• 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).
• Global Procurement: Global sourcing is the practice of sourcing from the global market for goods and services across geopolitical boundaries.
• Logistics Strategies: Logistics strategy is the set of guiding principles, driving forces and ingrained attitudes that help to coordinate goals, plans and policies between partners across a given supply chain.

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 Supply Chain
• Director, Supply Chain
• Supply Chain Director
• Director Supply Chain
• Vice President Of Supply Chain

Similar Occupations

If you are interested in exploring similar occupations, you may want to research the following job titles:

• Demand Planning Manager
• Supply Chain Manager
• Supply Chain Project Manager
• Logistics Director
• Inventory Control Manager
• Procurement / Sourcing Manager
• Director of Procurement / Sourcing
• Supply Chain Analyst
• Supply Chain Planning Analyst