Offered a manager role at external company coming from a project manager position and looking for perspectives?
33M located in Germany working as project manager in supply chain for the past 2 years and 3 years before that as production planner/running local plant supply chain projects at a separate company.
At both companies I’ve held interim manager positions but never full e2e responsibility and full accountability of employees.
Now I’ve applied at a third company as supply chain manager where I’ll get full responsibility of warehouse, planning, procurement, S&OP.. and 8 employees in direct reference. There are limited career advancement in my current role.
As my aspirations is to reach a senior leadership role in supply chain by time and therefore the move would strategically beneficial as employee management and proven e2e responsibility is highly advantageous and almost key towards this path.
Catch is Ill be taking a 5% paycut and a 15 min (50 min one way) longer commute along with the added responsibility.
While I know logically the move may be the right one I currently hold a low stress job coupled with family life and I know how stressful daily operations can be.
Looking for some insights from people with a similar dilemma and dealing with the uncomfortability of staying put in the safe job vs. going into the unknown..