Supply Chain Project Manager

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 Project Manager earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $94,315

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $93,665

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Manages projects and initiatives to improve supply chain processes. Works with project teams and managers to identify ways to streamline purchasing, distribution, warehousing, logistics or production.

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 Project Manager 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.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• 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.
• Supply Chain Project 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.
• 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 Project Manager that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• 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.
• 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.
• Demand Planning: Demand planningis a multi-step operational supply chain management (SCM) process used to create reliable forecasts. Effective demand planning can guide users to improve the accuracy of revenue forecasts, align inventory levels with peaks and troughs in demand, and enhance profitability for a given channel or product.
• Global Supply Management: In commerce, Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is defined as the distribution of goods and services throughout a trans-national companies' global network in order to maximize profit and minimize waste.
• Supply Chain Solutions: Working experience providing Supply Chain Solutions. This consists of providing solutions for 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.

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:

• Supply Chain Project Manager
• Project Manager - Supply Chain
• Project Manager, Supply Chain
• Project Manager Supply Chain
• Director Of Supply Chain Project Planning

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