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Over the past 12 months, I’ve spoken to a growing number of senior supply chain professionals looking for a vertical career step. ✔ 15–25 years of experience  ✔ Strong operational track records  ✔ Solid leadership credentials  ✔ Global exposure Yet many are telling me the same thing: “I can’t seem to land the right next-level role.” Many candidates are either occupying a role they have out grown and therefore being under utilised, or they were retrenched and had little choice

For most of your career, the rules were clear. You built experience. You delivered results. You gained seniority. And when it was time to move, the market  made sense . Good people were visible. Reputation travelled. Opportunity followed competence. That world has quietly disappeared. Today, highly capable senior professionals are being ghosted. Applications vanish into silence. Search processes stall. And people with decades of value are left wondering what they did wrong. T

For years, senior professionals have been given the same advice:  Update your CV. Apply for roles. Network harder. Wait.  When that stops working, most people assume  they  are the problem. Negative questions enter their minds. "I used to pull in the big roles when I was younger,  I used to be wanted in the jobs market, I am being taken over by younger talent, I am becoming or already am obsolete !”  They aren’t. The problem is that the modern market no longer knows what to d

There’s a particular kind of disorientation that senior professionals don’t talk about openly. It often starts quietly. They’re still in a role — but they’ve outgrown it. Or they’ve been retrenched and assumed their experience would naturally carry them into the next chapter. Or they sense another round of cuts is coming and want to get ahead of it. They do what they’ve always done. They speak to recruiters. They apply for roles that are clearly a strong fit. They engage with