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I'm a demand planner at Johnson & Johnson. Been there just over a year. It's my first job out of college. Previously I've done a global procurement co-op at Unilever and a marketing internship at Marathon Petroleum. I got into all these positions through campus recruiting.
Personally I think Supply Chain looks great from an Operations perspective and can spring-board you to upper tier companies if that piques your interest (P&G, GE, Comcast,Target, Apple, etc.). It will look great with a few years of experience if you decide to go the Business School route. As for other opportunities, there are a lot, transportation management, oil & gas, consulting, manufacturing, logistics.
2nd option is that I'm looking at trying to get into the corporate development program at an O&G company.
When I was in consulting, most of my projects or operations/supply chain in nature and we saw most people transition out to industry roles in similar area. Unless you want to stay in that function, you should consider going through MBA and resetting that way. Reputable ER or Corp Dev will be tough coming straight out of demand planning.
I agree you will have an easier time breaking into the O&G Sector - I would focus on roles that are relatively close match to your current skill set i.e. logistics/procurement etc.
I'm going to try to get into operations in oil and gas. If I can't I can always stay in consumer products at J&J or go somewhere like P&G, then do an MBA in finance.
That would allow me to enter ER/PE with a specialty in consumer products or O&G right?
Supply chain to MBA? Good prospective path? (Originally Posted: 12/25/2014)
I'm currently a senior at Dartmouth majoring in Chemistry (yeah, I know). I've gotten an offer with AT&T's supply chain/procurement consulting team by chance. My other offers are scientist/engineering roles at companies like Dow, Siemens, etc.
Ideally, in 2-4 years, I'd like to get an MBA and potentially work at a tech/biotech/pharma company. Without an MBA, the job growth from scientist/engineer --> management is incredibly slow. My GPA is a 3.77, and I assume I could do well on the GMAT with some studying. If I take the AT&T offer, would I be in a good position for a M7 program down the road? Would I be in the same bucket as all the incredibly qualified McKinsey guys and have to aim a bit lower? Thanks for the help!
Wow, that's actually a pretty good profile. I'm curious to hear about supply chain to MBA path as well as I'm currently working in a F100 CPG's supply chain as a Demand Planner and would like to go get my MBA after 4-5 years.
For what it's worth, I did a lot of reading and research and it seems that a lot of schools are trying to create some sort of diversity in their MBA class, so if you came from a different background compared to those incredibly qualified MBB types, you won't be competing with them directly for the slots.
You will not be in MBB's bucket. Supply chain is awesome if you ask me, because the competition isn't as stiff. You went to Dartmouth with a 3.77, seems like a solid profile overall. Come up with a good story and rock the GMAT, and you'll be fine.
I have a feeling that supply chain gets bucketed in with the engineers. Getting bucketed with marketing is where it's at...
Supply Chain experience would be good for M7 I'd expect. MBB are building out their operations practice, so you'd be very hire-able from them, which would make the M7 want to let you in.
Yeah that makes sense. I would think marketing/brand management might be more attractive because it's pretty relatable to strategy/consulting
Yeah, it seems that McKinsey is recruiting heavily here in SE Asia for their operations practice, particularly for their OEP program... if only I had already accumulated ~2 years of experience in the industry, I would've applied to it.
I did supply chain consulting at a F100 (just like this position) and am currently at Booth with $$$. It most certainly can be done!
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Hello, if you don't mind me asking, where did you end up? I am going through a similar thought process - I currently have a procurement role for a large, global oil & gas company. I am looking to leverage my industry experience to enter management consulting, equity research, or commodities trading.
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