Career Explorer Management
Grows with AI
Transportation, storage, and distribution managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate transportation, storage, or distribution activities in accordance with organizational policies and applicable government laws or regulations. Includes logistics managers.
In the middle of the pack: more resilient than 48% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by +6.1% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on creative vision and emotional intelligence.
AI can help with many of the tasks, and demand is still growing. Being fluent with AI is the edge here.
- Median pay (2025)
- $107,230
- Job growth to 2035
- +6.1%
- Openings a year
- 18,300
- People doing it (2025)
- 228,000
- Usual route in
- High school diploma
Where people already use AI for this work
- Implement procedures or processes
- Communicate with others about operational plans or activities
- Monitor individual behavior or performance
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Analyze data to improve operations
- Maintain operational records
- Develop organizational policies, systems, or processes
What the work looks like
- Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials.
- Plan, develop, or implement warehouse safety and security programs and activities.
- Inspect physical conditions of warehouses, vehicle fleets, or equipment and order testing, maintenance, repairs, or replacements.
- Plan, organize, or manage the work of subordinate staff to ensure that the work is accomplished in a manner consistent with organizational requirements.
- Collaborate with other departments to integrate logistics with business systems or processes, such as customer sales, order management, accounting, or shipping.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects
- Fewer of these jobs, as mergers reduce the number of transportation, storage, and distribution managers.
- More of these jobs, as supply chain management grows more complex resulting in the need for enhanced integration of logistics with business systems and processes.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
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- Occupational health and safety techniciansHuman edge, growing, Index 92, +19.4%
Also known as: Distribution Center Manager, Fleet Manager, Logistics Operations Manager, Supply Chain Logistics Manager, Global Supply Chain Director, Material Requirements Planning Manager, Supply Chain Director, Supply Chain Manager.
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.