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When you’re preparing to interview candidates, it is important to review the major skills they can contribute to the position. Now, there are many common interview questions that candidates can search online and make necessary preparations.

As a Hiring Manager or a Recruiter, you want to hire a logistics manager because they are great at solving problems in managing the entire supply chain cycle, so employees can move the goods from order to distribution.

They know the right number of stocks available in every warehouse, the situation with shift arrangements, and communicate with team leads of different logistics teams constantly.

The qualities that you want to look for in a logistics manager are:

  • Aware of multiple logistics systems
  • Quick and clear communication
  • Able to solve problems analytically
  • Excellent project management skills
  • Excellent budgeting and forecasting skills

Although an ideal Logistics Manager should have awesome problem-solving skills, a manager should have great leadership skills too.

We have prepared three types of questions that you can use in your interview sessions. Use the template below to gauge their leadership skills.

Leadership Questions

  • What’s your leadership style?
  • How do you organize your team member shifts?
  • What are your priority key points when evaluating team performance?
  • What are the key points when it comes to evaluating your performance?
  • If you have to lay off your team members, how would you do it?
  • How do you keep the other team members’ morale?
  • What is the most challenging project that you’ve handled? How do you handle the situation and motivate your teammates?

Behavioral Questions

  • What would you do if a customer complains about [specific situation]?
  • A mistake has happened at work. Walk me through how you solve that problem and make sure that it doesn’t happen again.
  • How do you handle a situation where you have to work with someone who has a different working style?
  • What do you do to gain momentum from your team?
  • Have you ever been a mentor to anyone? How do you guide them?

Problem-Solving Skill Questions

  • Tell me about when your regular manufacturer hiked their price. What did you do?
  • Do you ever have to make a difficult decision? What is the outcome?
  • What creative ideas do you have while working on a project? Did your team members and management receive it well?
  • How do you make sure that your idea(s) to improve the company is implemented?
  • Have you ever had to extend the deadline? What was the reason and how did you overcome it?
  • How do you achieve accuracy in your reporting?

Job-Related Skill Sets Questions

  • Can you define what SKU is?
  • Are you familiar with any logistics software? What have you used in your previous work?
  • What do you know about ISO requirements?
  • In your opinion, what is an export declaration?
  • What do you know about anti-dumping duty?
  • Define Advance Shipping Notice.

To Sum Up

These questions will help you to gauge candidates’ leadership skills - a skill that is also essential for a managerial position and eventually identify the most qualified individual for your logistics manager position.

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