Careers You Can Choose with a Degree of Management

Management degree provides a solid foundation in topics related to business, finance, economics, and marketing. It is an extremely practical degree, giving opportunities to complete work placements and professional projects including those which are part of the course program. Similarly, there are research-oriented management degrees, for those who want to go into informing policies and practices in management. 

If you are still confused about choosing the right management degree like human resource management, hospitality management, etc., there are many degrees available to help you start a career in management. 

You have to keep in mind that the demand for management professionals lies in every sector. The courses are taught as combined honors or joint programs such as business and management or management with international business. Among the leading schools of Pakistan, UMT-School of Business and Economics (SBE) offers MS Supply Chain Management and MS Management to its participants. A Ph.D. Management degree from UMT also provides management diversity which can be applied to many areas of management.

Our management graduates can work in diverse sectors including the public, private and voluntary sectors. We have prepared a list of careers which management students can opt for easily:

• Management Consultant: 

Your job as a management consultant can enhance your business knowledge and help you resolve issues by using your problem-solving skills. In order to understand the functioning of your company’s operations, you need to carry out research and data collection to understand its goals, identify issues, highlight your findings and help implement changes. The role requires a great sense of responsibility and pressure which has to be handled with care and self-motivation.

• Production Manager: 

If you have an interest in manufacturing and want to combine this knowledge with a management degree, then you have the capacity to become a production manager. Your degree in production management can help you learn about planning, coordination and technical management of manufacturing processes. You will interact with both human and material resources and will set a time scale and budget for both production jobs while ensuring health and safety standards. Production managers are employed by food manufacturing and processing companies. You also need to have strong technical, organizational and project management skills. 

• Project Manager: 

A degree in project management can make possible the delivery of projects on time and within budget by organizing people, resources and tasks. The project managers are available in almost every sector and organization from medicine to construction or advertising. The project management degree enables you to understand the client’s goal, checking the feasibility of the project by analyzing budgets, teams, and resources, negotiating with contractors and suppliers, monitoring progress and implementing changes where needed, reporting back to officials and evaluating the success of the project. You need to have strong organizational, interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to make decisions under stress. 

• Risk Manager: 

Risk managers guide companies on the potential risks related to profitability, reputation, safety, security and even existence. After providing a clear overview of assessing threats, risk managers plan a ‘back up’ to ensure that their client is prepared if something goes wrong. A highly analytical job where you have to be aware of the company’s goals, legal requirements, costs, and environmental factors and build contacts with clients to keep them informed about risk reporting in the field.