Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc (Executive) - Employers

Strengthen your supply chain management talent pipeline Our Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc (Executive) provides the opportunity to sponsor your high-potential supply chain managers through a highly regarded programme. It will develop their supply chain management capability while taking forward your organisation’s strategic agenda. Students learn about the latest academic insights and industry best practice, ensuring graduates can access and apply skills and knowledge to tackle today’s procurement, logistics, and supply chain challenges.

Who is it for? The course is for employers who want to accelerate the development of their supply chain management expertise, in order to build the organisation’s talent pipeline and strategic capability in this area. It is also designed to support the organisation in achieving strategic change, as participants progress from analysing to implementing strategic initiatives. Benefits to your learners Your ambitious future supply chain managers will benefit from this postgraduate qualification and personal development opportunity with one of the UK’s top business schools. This course will support them by: • raising their awareness and appreciation of advanced logistics, procurement and supply chain practices, • develop their ability to critically select the tools and techniques that are most relevant to the challenges they are facing, • teaching them how best to provide effective leadership throughout the supply chain life-cycle, • enabling them to carry out independent and robust research that is relevant to your organisation.

Benefits to your organisation As an employer, you can sponsor your employee by funding their studies fully or in part and/or by allowing them to take time out of work to study. By doing this your organisation will experience both short and long-term benefits. As an employer you will: • strengthen your leadership pipeline, • improve staff retention, • empower a network of individuals to work on meaningful strategic initiatives with the support of a world-class business school partner. The course equips your managers with the vital tools and skillset to bring new thinking and practices to your organisation. The individual thesis project provides the opportunity to investigate an area of interest to your organisation. This can address a particular problem that your business is facing and create real value for your organisation. The course has been co-designed with senior supply chain practitioners, bringing the latest academic insights and industry best practice, ensuring the content remains industry relevant. It is also designed to meet the requirements of the Level 7 Senior Leaders Master’s Degree Apprenticeship. Course information

“In our organisation we always look for new tools to adapt and utilise. By sending me on a course like this and utilising a time-based approach, I can take those skills back to my workplace and disseminate them amongst everyone else. I will certainly be using these in the future .”

Chris Cavendish, Procurement Practice Specialist (Project Manager), Crown Agents, (Executive Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc 2018)