Who this may suit
Supply-chain and logistics managers, distribution leaders and employers considering a senior supply-function role.
Key considerations
- IML ANZ is the assessing authority for 133611.
- Strategic authority, reporting lines and organisational complexity matter.
- The occupation is on the STSOL and CSOL, with employer-sponsored caveats to check.
Establish the level of your supply-chain role
IML’s criteria expect the applicant to hold the most senior supply-and-distribution function in the organisation or relevant division, with strategic decision-making authority. The size and structure of the organisation influence that assessment.
For a first review, explain which supply decisions you own and which are escalated. Describe how you influence inventory, storage and distribution arrangements, and how you lead the people responsible for delivery.
A warehouse supervisor, freight coordinator or purchasing officer may do important operational work without holding the strategic role assessed under 133611. Compare your actual authority before selecting the occupation.
Check the qualification-dependent experience requirements
IML’s published criteria require at least three years of distribution-related employment, including two years as Supply and Distribution Manager, where the applicant holds a highly relevant bachelor or master degree comparable to the AQF.
Without that highly relevant degree, the stated requirement is at least five years of distribution-related employment, including two years in the managerial role. The criteria also require at least one year of relevant paid full-time employment, or its part-time equivalent, in the past five years.
These are assessment criteria, not an invitation score or an automatic visa approval. Review the underlying duties and evidence as well as the number of years.
Prepare leadership examples with clear ownership
IML asks for examples across its management and leadership framework. Follow the current instructions on the competencies, format and length rather than preparing a generic account of the company’s achievements.
A useful preparation exercise is to identify a difficult supply problem, explain the decision you made, and show how you led others through the response. Describe the result accurately and what you learned. Separate a team result from the actions you personally took.
Use genuine examples. Do not invent savings, staffing responsibility or decision-making powers to make an operational role appear more senior.
Make the organisation and employment history understandable
Prepare a reporting structure showing your manager, direct reports and the supply function’s place in the wider business. Explain whether your remit is local, regional or group-wide and distinguish a division from a separate employing company.
Align that explanation with the employment documents required by IML. Identify appropriate referees and clarify changes in title or responsibility. A senior-sounding contract title is not a replacement for evidence of what you managed.
Keep confidential supplier terms and commercially sensitive forecasts out of an initial enquiry. A plain-language explanation is enough to identify the evidence questions that need further work.
Check both the occupation list and sponsorship caveats
133611 is on the STSOL. It can support occupation eligibility for state-nominated 190 or 491, but not a new 189 Points-tested or family-sponsored 491 application. State selection and all personal criteria still apply.
It is also listed for 482 Core Skills and 186 Direct Entry. Those instruments attach caveats covering the nature of the role and business size or turnover, including specified international-trade circumstances. Check the full wording for the employer rather than assuming every supply-manager vacancy qualifies.
Home Affairs uses ANZSCO 2022 for 482/186 and ANZSCO 2013 for other skilled subclasses. Assessment of your past career and nomination of the proposed Australian role are related but separate steps.
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How we can help
Ausdirect can help assess the strategic level of the role, organise the IML evidence questions and review state nomination or the employer’s proposed sponsorship pathway.
Questions to consider
Is VETASSESS the assessing authority for this manager role?
No. The specified authority for 133611 is IML ANZ. Check the authority for the exact occupation rather than using a general professional-assessment checklist.
Can experience be considered without a relevant degree?
IML publishes an alternative experience route where the highly relevant bachelor or master qualification is not held. The managerial level and other criteria still need to be met.
Does a successful IML assessment guarantee sponsorship?
No. The employer, nominated position, applicable caveats and visa applicant must separately satisfy the relevant stream’s requirements.
Your next step
Prepare your career chronology, qualification record, reporting structure and examples of strategic supply decisions. General information checked on 17 October 2026.