Skip to main content
Two students at a desk

Supply Chain Executive Leadership

In today’s volatile world, supply chain leaders must think like CEOs—beyond functions and across the enterprise. This course prepares exceptional leaders to become business-first, enterprise-focused CSCOs, driving impact and value across the entire business.

Watch programme video

Programme Impact

Empowering leaders for tomorrow’s challenges

Join a dynamic, future-focused leadership programme designed to equip participants with the skills and strategies to navigate complexities, foster sustainable growth and lead transformative change in global supply chains. You'll identify a transformational project within your organisation and master the skills to pitch it with impact—securing board or executive approval for implementation.

  • Embrace and navigate future trends: Unlock innovative thinking to confidently navigate, embrace and develop future supply chain trends.

  • Expand your strategic business acumen: Deepen your understanding of how executive teams and boards drive business strategy and performance.

  • Transform into an enterprise leader: Gain the skills, knowledge and self-awareness to transition from functional to enterprise leadership.

  • Foster cross-functional collaboration: Develop your cross-functional collaboration capability to increase the value of your supply chain to the enterprise.

  • Influence at the highest levels: Increase your Board and Executive-level impact with more effective communications and compelling storytelling.

  • Discover and harness your leadership potential: Achieve clarity on your leadership strengths and opportunities through the Korn Ferry Leadership Assessment, benchmarking yourself against the best-in-class CSCO profile.

Who attends

Right for you

The Supply Chain Executive Leadership (SCEL) programme is designed to develop the next generation of Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs). It empowers participants to become forward-thinking enterprise leaders, capable of driving impact and inspiring across the entire value chain.

This programme is right for you if:

  • You are an ambitious supply chain specialist, currently 1 or 2 levels below the CSCO who is excited to transition from functional expert to holistic business leader.

  • Your dynamic career path now sees you on a trajectory to achieve Chief Supply Chain Officer status within the next 3 – 10 years.

  • With a career that has already seen you leading significant parts of the supply chain in a large company, you’re ready to bring all your skills and capabilities together to bring organisational value using insights from external sources to create groundbreaking strategies for the future.

Programme content

Lead with impact. Harness the power with Supply Chain.

Individual Leadership Supply Chain Leadership Enterprise Leadership
  • Engage in the Korn Ferry CSCO Development Experience and receive a data-driven roadmap to CSCO readiness—benchmarking talent, identifying enterprise leadership gaps, and accelerating the growth needed to lead end-to-end, shape strategy, and drive transformation.
  • Take the next step in your leadership journey to inspire and Influence at all levels.
  • Explore how to generate greater value from Internal and external relationships.
  • Learn how to get your message across in a way the board want to hear it, talking their language.
  • Complete a diagnostic on your own supply chain to help identify any gaps that may form part of your transformational project.
  • Make your supply chain strategy relevant for the executive team and board.
  • Adapt your strategy to take into account future supply chain trends - including resilience, sustainability and technology.
  • Undertake a diagnostic of your whole organisation taking into consideration external macro factors and how they may impact your organisation in the future.
  • Identify an enterprise wide transformational project that you will deliver back into your own organisation.
  • Understand corporate strategy development and how it links to supply chain strategy.
  • Develop the skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
  • Uncover the power of using future trends analysis to navigate the volatile world of today.

Our faculty

Experts in the field

Learn from a unique team of academic thought leaders and experienced executives with combined expertise in leadership and supply chain management.

Executive Mentors

Our executive mentors are senior supply chain leaders, typically Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) from major multinational organisations. Many of them will participate in the programme’s ‘Project Pitch Event’, offering strategic guidance, coaching, and feedback to support participants in shaping and advancing their transformational projects.

How to apply

Submit your application through our online application form.

Not ready to apply yet? Reserve a place

 

This programme is delivered in conjunction with:

 

Fees

The fee for the programme is £24,000.*

We offer a 25% discount for London Business School Alumni and for those who have completed four eligible Certificate in Management or Certificate in Finance programmes.

For more information on what the programme fee covers, please speak to our Client Relationship Manager.

*Fees are subject to change.

Contact us

Whether you are an individual or an organisation/group looking for a programme, get in touch and we can help find the best solution for you.

close

Sign up to receive our latest news and business thinking direct to your inbox