"customer service," "logistics," and "continuous improvement" aren't the only skills we found operations managers list on their resumes. In fact, there's a whole list of operations manager responsibilities that we found, including:
See the full list of operations manager skills.
Before becoming an operations manager, 62.5% earned their bachelor's degree. When it comes down to graduating with a master's degree, 8.7% operations managers went for the extra education. If you're wanting to pursue this career, it may be possible to be successful with a high school degree. In fact, most operations managers have a college degree. But about one out of every seven operations managers didn't attend college at all.
Those operations managers who do attend college, typically earn either business degrees or management degrees. Less commonly earned degrees for operations managers include accounting degrees or marketing degrees.
Once you've obtained the level of education you're comfortable with, you might start applying to companies to become an operations manager. We've found that most operations manager resumes include experience from Walgreens, CVS Health, and Facebook. Of recent, Walgreens had 913 positions open for operations managers. Meanwhile, there are 686 job openings at CVS Health and 284 at Facebook.
Since salary is important to some operations managers, it's good to note that they are figured to earn the highest salaries at McKinsey & Company Inc, Boston Consulting Group, and Meta. If you were to take a closer look at McKinsey & Company Inc, you'd find that the average operations manager salary is $179,785. Then at Boston Consulting Group, operations managers receive an average salary of $168,206, while the salary at Meta is $151,621.
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We also looked into companies who hire operations managers from the top 100 educational institutions in the U.S. The top three companies that hire the most from these institutions include United States Army Corps of Engineers, FedEx, and Amazon.
In general, operations managers fulfill roles in the retail and health care industries. While employment numbers are high in those industries, the operations manager annual salary is the highest in the technology industry with $96,779 as the average salary. Meanwhile, the finance and manufacturing industries pay $89,475 and $75,509 respectively. This means that operations managers who are employed in the technology industry make 24.9% more than operations managers who work in the retail Industry.