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Overview
The work connects suppliers, customers, transport partners, customs paperwork and internal teams so products such as fittings, tools, heating parts and plumbing supplies can move across borders under agreed procedures.
In job descriptions, look for import and export strategy, customs compliance, commercial documentation, export controls, embargo rules, international market monitoring, financial risk and coordination with sales, logistics and purchasing.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
This role keeps cross-border trade for hardware, plumbing and heating supplies organised. The manager coordinates procedures, customs documents, internal handoffs and external partners for products where specifications, safety and delivery timing matter.
Skills and specializations
Useful strengths include customs compliance, export control awareness, commercial document checks, supplier communication, market monitoring, financial risk work and enough product vocabulary to discuss fittings, tools, heating parts and plumbing supplies.
Salary context
Pay context depends on trade volume, number of markets, customs and documentation accountability, supplier negotiations, product complexity, team leadership and exposure to regulated or sensitive goods. This guide does not provide salary amounts.
Career paths
Career paths can move toward regional import/export leadership, supply-chain management, international sales operations, trade compliance, purchasing management or distribution leadership for technical building products.
Good to know
Look for product scope, markets covered, customs authority, documentation systems, Incoterms or trade terms, supplier responsibility, transport partners and whether the role owns strategy or mainly maintains procedures.
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 other particular products
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include import export manager in chemical products, import export manager in mining, construction and civil engineering machinery and import export manager in machine tools.
Explore this activityWholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies
This occupation may also occur in this activity. Another occupation there is hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies 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.
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.
46.18Activities of agents involved in the wholesale of other particular products46.84Wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies
Alternative labels
trainee import manager in hardware
plumbing and heating equipment and supplies
senior import export manager in hardware
assistant export manager in hardware
senior export manager in hardware
senior import manager in hardware
international trade manager in hardware
international trade compliance manager in hardware
trainee export manager in hardware
customs compliance manager in hardware
assistant import manager in hardware
graduate import manager in hardware
trainee import export manager in hardware
graduate export manager in hardware
graduate import export manager in hardware
assistant import export manager in hardware
Occupation group
import export manager (1324.3.2)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/173a882d-0a14-4919-ac1b-23e8ee8273de |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 1324.3.2.16 |
| ISCO group | 1324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |