Business & Finance
Logisticians
Also called: Client Services Administrator, Logistician, Production Planner, Supply Management Specialist
US median pay
$82,320
per year, 2025
Job growth 2025–35
+17.6%
faster than average
Openings a year (US)
26,600
255,100 employed
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree
Preparation 4/5 · Considerable preparation
What this job is
Analyze and coordinate the ongoing logistical functions of a firm or organization. Responsible for the entire life cycle of a product, including acquisition, distribution, internal allocation, delivery, and final disposal of resources.
What they do day to day
- Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity.
- Develop an understanding of customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met.
- Manage subcontractor activities, reviewing proposals, developing performance specifications, and serving as liaisons between subcontractors and organizations.
- Develop proposals that include documentation for estimates.
- Review logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks, and service agreements.
- Direct availability and allocation of materials, supplies, and finished products.
- Redesign the movement of goods to maximize value and minimize costs.
- Explain proposed solutions to customers, management, or other interested parties through written proposals and oral presentations.
- Direct team activities, establishing task priorities, scheduling and tracking work assignments, providing guidance, and ensuring the availability of resources.
- Perform managerial duties such as hiring and training employees and overseeing facility needs or requirements.
Skills and knowledge that matter most
Skills
- Coordination3.9/5
- Complex Problem Solving3.8/5
- Social Perceptiveness3.6/5
- Judgment and Decision Making3.6/5
- Systems Analysis3.5/5
- Time Management3.4/5
- Systems Evaluation3.2/5
- Service Orientation3.2/5
Knowledge
- Transportation4.8/5
- English Language4.0/5
- Administration and Management4.0/5
- Customer and Personal Service3.9/5
- Mathematics3.7/5
- Computers and Electronics3.6/5
Importance rated by people working in the job (1 = not important, 5 = extremely important).
Education and preparation
Preparation level 4 of 5 — Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree and several years of related experience.
Typical entry education (BLS): Bachelor's degree.
Highest education of people in this job:
- Bachelor's degree75%
Who this job suits
Mostly Conventional
Organising data, details and procedures
Enterprising
Leading, persuading and starting things
Investigative
Ideas, research and solving problems
Based on the Holland (RIASEC) interest profile for this occupation.