Sustainable Supply Chain Manager
Impact: Supply chain sustainability and ESG performance through expert sustainable supply chain management
Develop and implement sustainability strategies across supply chains to reduce environmental impact, improve social responsibility, and build supply chain resilience. Assess supplier sustainability performance, develop supplier codes of conduct, implement traceability systems, and report on supply chain sustainability metrics.
What the day looks like
- People interaction
- Moderate
- Team vs solo
- 60% Team / 40% Solo
- Client facing
- Sometimes
- Impact visibility
- Moderate
- Travel
- 15 to 25% for supplier visits and industry events
- Schedule flexibility
- Moderate
- Remote work
- Hybrid
- Typical work hours
- 40 to 55 hours/week
- Stress level
- Moderate
At a glance
- Median salary
- $155,000
- Entry-level
- $80,000 - $110,000
- Senior
- $260,000+
- Growth by 2033
- 18% (faster than average)
- Demand
- Growing Fast
- Freelance potential
- Low
- Salary growth potential
- High - 65 to 80% growth from entry to senior
- Typical student debt
- Low
Skills you'll use
Hard skills
- 65
Soft skills
- 35
Technical complexity: Moderate
How to get there
- Minimum education
- Bachelor's Degree
- Licensing
- No
- Years to mid-career
- 2 to 4 years
- Years to senior
- 5 to 8 years
- Career switching
- Moderate
Where this career leads
How people arrive here
Where you can go from here
Typical progression
- Supply Chain Analyst > Sustainability Analyst > Sustainable Supply Chain Manager > Head of Sustainable Procurement > Chief Sustainability Officer
Future outlook
- Automation probability
- 20% moderate risk as AI automates some supply chain sustainability analysis
- AI disruption risk
- Moderate
- Demand trend
- Growing Fast
How people feel about it
- Overall satisfaction
- 7/10
- Meaning
- 7/10
- Work-life balance
- 6.5/10
- Prestige
- 7/10
- Social perception
- High