Management (Global Supply Chain Management) MSc

Our Masters in Management courses will help you shape your leadership and management skills to become an effective manager, able to operate in dynamic and complex organisational environments. You will gain an excellent understanding of the core subjects, enabling you to put to theory and contemporary thinking into practice.

The MSc Management (Global Supply Chain Management) award is focused on specialisation in management of strategic operations and supply chain management globally and includes a study of the future of global supply chain management. This award will prepare students for a variety of career opportunities in logistics, warehousing management, transportation management, production management, purchasing, inventory control, and customer relationship management.

The unique selling points for this course are personalisation, application of learning into real world practice, an opportunity to take part in an International Experience overseas, and studying Responsible and Sustainable Management.

In your third semester, you’ll choose an experiential project. With the opportunity to use your skills in a real-world setting, you can choose from completing a consultancy experience project or a business research project.

What you’ll study

• At NBS you can create a personalised learning experience, giving you a unique Masters degree that equips you with the skills you'll need, for the career you want.  At any one time, two core modules will be delivered in parallel over a four week period, with teaching delivered in three weeks and the fourth week left clear for assessment work. This allows time for preparation and assessment work. In addition, you will study Professional Practice (in semester one) and Responsible and Sustainable Management (in semester two) over seven to ten weeks. This enables you to focus on the core subjects, whilst building your ongoing personal and professional development portfolio.

Programme overview

Semester one modules

• Managing Organisations and Organisational Behaviour
• Operations Management Fundamentals
• Finance for Managers
• Marketing Fundamentals
• Strategic Management
• Data and Decision Making for Managers

Semester two modules

• Supply Chain Management in Practice
• Strategic Global Supply Chains
• Strategic Operations
• Risk, Resilience and Sustainability in Technology-Enabled Supply Chains
• Responsible and Sustainable Management
• Understanding Business in the Global Context
• Managing People in a Global Context

Semester three modules

Your choice of final semester project. Experiential projects include:

• Consultancy Experience Project, or
• Business Research Project

Module for those undertaking the 2 year course

• Placement Diploma in Industrial Experience

Careers and employability

• At Nottingham Business School, we’re focused on your employability from the start of your postgraduate degree. We provide you with a learning experience that integrates theory and practice.

Graduates from this course have gone onto roles within the public, private and third sector, undertaking positions such as:

• Logistics manager
• Consultant
• Acquisitions sales manager
• Supply chain consultant
• Organisational development consultant