Career
Logisticians
Plan how goods move, from supplier to customer.
Here's what you actually need to know.
The work
What people in this job do
- 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.
The outlook
How the forecast changed this year
The deeper question
What kind of person does this path ask you to become?
What this work centers on
O*NET interest profile, scored 1–7.
The work
Do you want most of your days spent on information & systems, then persuasion & leadership?
Responsibility
Are you willing to be the one responsible for this?
“Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity.”
Development
What would you need to build over the next 5–10 years?
Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, Monitoring.
Trade-offs
What does it ask of you in exchange?
4 years of education after high school (bachelor's degree), for a median of $82,320 a year and 26,600 openings nationally each year.
Paths in
Degrees that lead here
- Business AdministrationSee the degree →
- Business Administration and Management, GeneralCIP 52.0201
- Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain ManagementCIP 52.0203
- Operations Management and SupervisionCIP 52.0205
Paths across
Careers that use similar skills
- Logistics Analysts
- Supply Chain Managers
- Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers$107,230 · +6.1%
- Logistics Engineers
- Project Management Specialists$102,320 · +6.7%
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Sources
- BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34 (archived), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- O*NET 31.0 Database (August 2026), National Center for O*NET Development / U.S. Department of Labor. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 Crosswalk, NCES and BLS. Retrieved 2026-10-01.