Logistics Manager job description
292 verified openings in Inventory & Logistics
$107,230 was the median wage for transportation, storage, and distribution managers in May 2025, which is $51.55 an hour, on a national count of 228,100. Transportation and warehousing holds 30 percent of those jobs, wholesale trade 15 percent, and manufacturing 13 percent. The work is planning and directing the movement of goods and people: setting service and cost targets, running the carrier base, supervising supervisors, managing budgets, and answering for compliance and safety. BLS puts warehouse manager on this same line, so the two pages here share one median between them.
Core Duties and Responsibilities
Supervising the people who receive, store, test, and ship comes first, followed by building the warehouse safety and security program and inspecting the physical condition of warehouses, vehicle fleets, and equipment, then ordering the testing, maintenance, or replacement that turns up. The analytical half is separate and just as heavy: working out the most cost-effective way to move product, analyzing what a change of routing, mode, volume, or carrier would do to the financials, monitoring inventory levels, and running supply chain performance measurement. Import and export compliance belongs to this seat as well.
Common Skills and Technologies
Negotiation and Instructing rate as high here as Systems Analysis does, which describes the job accurately: carrier rates on one side, developing supervisors on the other. Reading and listening come first overall. The technology spans both halves of the job, SAP and Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Project and Oracle Primavera, SQL and SQL Server, Visio, warehouse management software where the network has it, and route navigation, geographic information, and financial analysis software behind them.
Education, Training, and Career Path
Job Zone Four: several years of related experience and, for most people in it, a bachelor's degree. BLS lists high school as the typical entry education, then pairs it with at least five years in a related occupation, and that second half is what decides who gets hired. Logistician is the usual feeder role, at a median of $82,320.
Sources: O*NET 30.0, 11-3071.00 Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers, https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/11-3071.00. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, 11-3071, https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm. BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers, https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/transportation-storage-and-distribution-managers.htm.