Logistic Operations Management
As a logistics operations manager you can work for freight forwarders and other logistics service providers in the area of transhipment and warehousing. You sell logistical services by developing transport solutions and logistics concepts, taking into account economic, legal and ecological aspects. Your workspace is a warehouse, an airport or sea port, or the office of a freight forwarding company.
Your job
Moving goods, connecting the world through commerce… these are some of the things you will be doing! Flashlights from China, cars from Germany and coffee from Guatemala – whenever a product has to cross a border and arrive exactly where it is needed, logistics operations managers are at work. They organise and optimise national and international freight transport and worldwide shipping for their customers in industry and trade. For a project to become a "logistical masterpiece", a lot of coordination is required. Here you come into play.
Your training will include:
- Know transport, customs and insurance guidelines, as well as the specifics of transport
- Process-oriented goods and services in transport and logistics
- Warehouse logistics
- Consolidated cargo and transport systems
- Contracts, liability and insurances
- Quality management
- Ability to handle dangerous goods, maintain security and safety
- Serve customers worldwide and across borders
- Carry out business, commercial and administrative activities
Industrial Management
As an industrial manager you can work in companies of almost all economic sectors, such as in the electrical, automotive, chemical, wood, transport, textile or commercial sectors. Your workspace will usually be in an office but could also be in a warehouse or production hall.
Your job
The tasks and work areas of an industrial manager are versatile: you buy goods and manage the inventory, determine costs for orders and projects, and monitor production processes. In addition, you will be active in marketing and sales -- accepting orders, conducting sales negotiations, preparing invoices and planning marketing strategies and advertising measures.
If you are placed within the accounting department, you will manage book-keeping, oversee payment transactions, and use instruments of cost planning and control.
Personnel management is also one of the tasks of an industrial manager. You will plans and determine personnel deployment and also contribute to HR decisions.
Your training will include:
- Determining the demand for products and services
- Checking contracts
- Purchasing materials
- Processing orders
- Planning production and marketing
- Cost-planning, financing, profitability, and investments
- Accounting
- Effective customer communication (also in foreign languages)
- Problem-solving and decision-making
- Personnel planning
- Market research, compiling statistics and data processing