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Overview
This role keeps clothing and shoe shipments moving between suppliers, sales teams, carriers and customers while trade documents and customs steps stay traceable.
In job descriptions, look for clothing and footwear, import-export strategies, customs compliance, export control, trade documentation, market performance, financial risk, sales reports, deadlines and distribution operations.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
The work connects buying or sales plans with shipment schedules for garments, shoes and seasonal product ranges. Customs checks, documentation control and distribution decisions become urgent when delivery dates or product rules change.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes clothing and footwear, customs compliance, international import-export regulations, export control, substances rules, financial terminology, market monitoring and careful trade documentation.
Salary context
Salary context for clothing and footwear is best read through seasonal collections, substance rules and brand delivery windows, plus financial risk, reporting duties and responsibility for customs documents or distribution decisions.
Career paths
Career paths can move toward fashion sourcing, apparel logistics, international sales or category management, especially when the role builds strong customs, supplier and market-performance experience.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name garments, shoes and seasonal product ranges, customs documents, export controls, financial records, sales reports, shipment deadlines, traded markets and who makes distribution decisions.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay 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 textiles, clothing, fur, footwear and leather goods
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include import export manager in textiles and textile semi-finished and raw materials and import export manager in hides, skins and leather products.
Explore this activityWholesale of clothing and footwear
This occupation may also occur in this activity. Another occupation there is clothing and footwear distribution manager.
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.
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Official sources and licenses
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
46.42Wholesale of clothing and footwear46.16Activities of agents involved in the wholesale of textiles, clothing, fur, footwear and leather goods
Alternative labels
trainee import export manager in clothing and footwear
assistant import manager in clothing and footwear
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senior export manager in clothing and footwear
graduate import manager in clothing and footwear
assistant export manager in clothing and footwear
senior import manager in clothing and footwear
graduate export manager in clothing and footwear
international trade manager in clothing and footwear
assistant import export manager in clothing and footwear
graduate import export manager in clothing and footwear
customs compliance manager in clothing and footwear
senior import export manager in clothing and footwear
international trade compliance manager in clothing and footwear
Occupation group
import export manager (1324.3.2)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/ccbb7213-79f7-489e-9dad-f90091e550d0 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 1324.3.2.6 |
| ISCO group | 1324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |