Edition · Supply Chain Analytics

Supply chain hiring in India has moved to analytics, and experienced analysts are hard to find.

Traditional planning and logistics roles in India are barely growing, while the number of supply chain data scientists rose 33% in the past year. About 1.3 lakh professionals combine supply chain planning with analytics tools, and every level from four years' experience onward is very hard to hire. This edition covers which roles are growing, where experienced supply runs short, what each role pays and where the talent sits, with data to August 2026.

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Published September 2026

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Key Findings

Five findings from the supply chain analytics data

The full report carries the role-by-role headcount, the city map, the salary bands and the employers behind these five findings. Talent-pool figures are our analysis of LinkedIn Talent Insights data for India.

Supply chain data scientists are the fastest-growing role, up 33% in a year.

Traditional titles barely moved over the same twelve months: demand planners grew 2%, supply chain and logistics analysts 3% each, and procurement analysts and inventory planners 1%. At leadership level, analytics-skilled supply chain directors grew 14% and heads or VPs 18%. The wider GCC market is moving the same way, with more than 1,200 of India's roughly 2,100 GCCs now running AI and machine-learning work, and 48% of Indian enterprises already use AI at scale in their supply chains. Much of the planning talent works under grade titles such as Manager, so a search on skills finds a far larger pool than a search on job titles.

+33%

Supply chain data scientists, past 12 months

Hiring gets very hard from the fourth year of experience.

India has an estimated 1.05 to 1.5 lakh supply chain analytics professionals, and a direct count of the pool puts it at about 1.3 lakh. Professionals with up to three years' experience are moderately easy to hire. Every level from four years onward is rated very hard, and the pool thins quickly: for each year of experience there are about 7,200 professionals in the 4–7 year band, 4,600 at 8–12 years and 2,100 at 13–15 years. About a quarter of profiles don't state years of experience, so these bands cover the 96,400 professionals who do, and 18% of them have 13 years or more.

Year 4

Where hiring turns very hard

22% of these professionals changed jobs in the past year.

A quarter of those with four to seven years' experience moved, the highest rate of any band. Aon measures something slightly different, the share of employees who resign in a year, and puts it at 16–22% across GCCs, 16.2% for India as a whole and 25–30% for AI and senior engineering roles. Early-career professionals switch after about six months and those with 16 or more years after about three. Most moves are into better-paying platform roles within the field, and 71% of GCCs now offer ESOPs or RSUs to hold people.

22%

Changed jobs, past 12 months

Pay rises steeply with experience and platform skills.

Entry-level analysts sit in the ₹3–6 LPA band, mid-level analysts and demand planners in ₹7–12 LPA and S&OP or IBP managers in ₹12–22 LPA. Directors reach ₹30–60 LPA and heads of supply chain analytics ₹40–100+ LPA. Analytics roles carry an estimated 30–55% premium over traditional supply chain operations at the same experience, and certification adds to it: ASCM puts the lift at 20% for any of its credentials, 27% for CSCP and 23% for CPIM.

30–55%

Analytics pay premium, estimated

Bengaluru holds a quarter of the pool, and Hyderabad and Chennai are growing fastest.

Bengaluru has 24% of supply chain analytics professionals, about 30% of those with eight or more years' experience and 44% of supply chain data scientists. Delhi NCR follows at 12%, then Hyderabad and Mumbai at 9% each, Chennai at 7% and Pune at 5%, with the remaining 34% spread across the rest of India. Mumbai leads for demand planners and supply chain heads. IT services, consulting and analytics firms employ and train the largest share of this talent: Mu Sigma, Fractal, Tredence, Walmart Global Tech and Tiger Analytics employ the most supply chain data scientists. FMCG and CPG companies such as P&G, PepsiCo and Nestlé employ the most analytics leaders.

24%

Share of the pool in Bengaluru

Chart of the edition

Talent growth by supply chain role, past 12 months

Growth in the number of professionals holding each supply chain role in India, to August 2026. Supply chain data scientists grew 33%, while every traditional planning and analyst title grew 3% or less.

Talent growth by supply chain role, India, past 12 months to August 2026

Talent growth, past 12 months Fastest growing: supply chain data scientists

Source: Recruise Talent Intelligence analysis of LinkedIn Talent Insights data, India, to August 2026.

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Inside this edition

What's inside this edition

The strategic read comes first, for CHROs and talent leaders, with the working tables behind it. The full report runs to 22 pages, with a glossary for the planning and certification terms.

01 The big picture and executive summary

02 Talent growth by supply chain role

03 Skills, certifications and the pay premium they carry

04 Talent supply and hiring difficulty by experience

05 Job moves and tenure by experience

06 Salary bands by role and demand by sector

07 Headcount by role and share by city

08 Largest employers, cities and backgrounds by role

09 What agentic AI means for entry-level supply chain hiring

Methodology & sources

The talent-pool, role-growth, experience, job-move and city figures are Recruise Talent Intelligence's analysis of LinkedIn Talent Insights data for India, to August 2026. About a quarter of profiles don't state years of experience, so the experience bands cover the 96,400 professionals who do. Hiring difficulty is LinkedIn Talent Insights' own rating of how hard a pool is to hire from, comparing employer demand with the supply available, on a scale of moderate, high or very high. Salary bands draw on Glassdoor India and Indeed India role-level data, and the certification premiums come from ASCM's 2025 Supply Chain Salary & Career Report. Attrition benchmarks are from Aon's Annual Salary Increase & Turnover Survey 2025–26, and the GCC context from the Nasscom–Zinnov India GCC Landscape 2026, Dun & Bradstreet's Economic Impact of Global Capability Centers in India, Deloitte's State of AI in the Enterprise 2026, Talent500 and Gartner. Figures are rounded, estimates are shown as ranges, and growth refers to the past 12 months unless stated otherwise.

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