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Overview
The role connects inventory accuracy, shipment tracking, forwarders, carriers, freight payment, customs compliance and forecasts for furniture, carpets and lighting equipment.
In job descriptions, look for supply chain planning, transport operations, shipping cost control, risk analysis, stock control, shipment sites, regulatory compliance, staff management and communication with freight forwarders.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
These distribution managers plan movement of furniture, carpets and lighting equipment from suppliers or warehouses to sales points. Work covers inventory accuracy, shipment tracking, transport operations, forwarders, carriers, forecasts and cost control.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes furniture and lighting product knowledge, freight methods, shipment sites, customs compliance, inventory control, supply-chain trends, statistical forecasts, risk analysis and staff management.
Salary context
Pay context is tied to shipment volume, value and fragility of goods, number of sales points, staff responsibility, customs exposure, cost targets, forecasting duties and accountability for delivery disruption.
Career paths
Career paths can move toward senior distribution management, supply-chain planning, logistics operations, procurement logistics, inventory management, transport management or regional responsibility for specialised goods.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name product categories, warehouse or sales-point network, carriers, forwarders, freight payments, customs, inventory accuracy, shipping cost targets and forecasting tools.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Activities of agents involved in the wholesale of furniture, household goods, hardware and ironmongery
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include household goods distribution manager, import export manager in furniture, carpets and lighting equipment and import export manager in electrical household appliances.
Explore this activityWholesale of household, office and shop furniture, carpets and lighting equipment
This occupation may also occur in this activity. Other occupations there include import export manager in furniture, carpets and lighting equipment and import export manager in office furniture.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 1
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
11-3071.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
The official mapping connects this O*NET occupation to many ESCO occupations.
Source and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Mapping project version 1: O*NET-SOC 2019 → ESCO 1.1.0. Targets are validated against ESCO 1.2.1.
Source: European Commission, joint ESCO Secretariat and USDOL/ETA project. O*NET Database: USDOL/ETA. This presentation uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
AltoTrail preserves the source relationship type. The order is technical and does not show which occupation is best, most relevant or recommended.
AltoTrail validates and presents the source relationships without adding ranking or recommendation semantics.
Official sources and licenses
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
46.47Wholesale of household, office and shop furniture, carpets and lighting equipment46.15Activities of agents involved in the wholesale of furniture, household goods, hardware and ironmongery
Alternative labels
furniture
carpets and lighting equipment distribution manager
carpets and lighting equipment logistics planner
carpets and lighting equipment supply chain manager
senior furniture
carpets and lighting equipment logistics manager
trainee furniture
carpets and lighting equipment distribution planner
carpets and lighting equipment supply chain planner
graduate furniture
assistant furniture
Occupation group
specialised goods distribution manager (1324.3.1.6)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/bd7c070b-333f-4b9d-a70a-25f135ff931e |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 1324.3.1.6.15 |
| ISCO group | 1324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |