Logistician

Common tasks

• 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.
• Explain proposed solutions to customers, management, or other interested parties through written proposals and oral presentations.
• Redesign the movement of goods to maximize value and minimize costs.
• Perform managerial duties such as hiring and training employees and overseeing facility needs or requirements.
• Direct team activities, establishing task priorities, scheduling and tracking work assignments, providing guidance, and ensuring the availability of resources.

Most important skills

Critical Thinking

Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

Active Listening

Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

Reading Comprehension

Reading work-related information.

Monitoring

Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.

Speaking

Talking to others.

Coordination

Changing what is done based on other people's actions.

Complex Problem Solving

Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

Social Perceptiveness

Understanding people's reactions.