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Overview
This management role coordinates internal teams, suppliers, carriers and customers around international office furniture trade, with attention to commercial documents, customs compliance and market performance.
In job descriptions, look for office furniture product knowledge, import export strategy, distribution operations, financial records, sales reports, deadlines, languages and responsibility for trade documentation.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
The work usually sits with commercial, purchasing or distribution teams handling office furniture across borders. It can involve setting import export procedures, coordinating suppliers and carriers, checking trade documents and tracking market or sales performance.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes office furniture products, customs compliance, export controls, financial records, distribution operations, sales reporting and multilingual supplier contact. Management roles also need process control, deadlines and conflict handling.
Salary context
Pay context depends on market responsibility, product range, sales volume, documentation risk, distribution scope and whether the role leads staff or owns import export strategy for several furniture categories.
Career paths
Career development may move from trade coordination into import export management, distribution management, procurement, international sales operations, compliance leadership or broader commercial management for furniture and workplace products.
Good to know
Check whether vacancies name furniture categories, target markets, customs tasks, reporting duties, carrier relationships, budget responsibility and authority to set procedures rather than only process individual orders.
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 furniture, household goods, hardware and ironmongery
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include import export manager in china and other glassware, import export manager in household goods 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 furniture carpets and lighting equipment 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.
46.47Wholesale 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
assistant import manager in office furniture
international trade manager in office furniture
senior export manager in office furniture
customs compliance manager in office furniture
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assistant export manager in office furniture
senior import export manager in office furniture
assistant import export manager in office furniture
trainee import manager in office furniture
international trade compliance manager in office furniture
graduate import manager in office furniture
graduate export manager in office furniture
trainee export manager in office furniture
Occupation group
import export manager (1324.3.2)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4c313f2a-704e-4d3c-a7c2-98e1b93c9e94 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 1324.3.2.25 |
| ISCO group | 1324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |