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Overview
The role applies import and export knowledge to live-animal movements, covering commercial documentation, customs clearance, forwarder contact, carriers, transport planning, delivery monitoring and insurance claims when problems occur.
In job descriptions, look for live-animal product knowledge, animal-health distribution rules, protective measures against organisms, food-law wording where relevant, multimodal logistics, customs compliance, carrier handling and multilingual coordination.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
This specialist role keeps shipments of live animals moving with correct documents, customs steps and carrier coordination. Work often means preparing commercial paperwork, checking import or export requirements, arranging transport, monitoring delivery and following up disruptions.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes live-animal product knowledge, customs compliance, import-export documentation, forwarder communication, carrier handling, transport planning, quotes, insurance claims and multilingual contact. Animal-health rules, organism-protection measures and careful handover make coordination more sensitive than ordinary freight.
Salary context
Salary context usually follows shipment complexity, animal-handling sensitivity, route count, documentation risk, carrier coordination, deadline pressure and responsibility for resolving blocked or distressed live-animal consignments.
Career paths
Career paths can move from live-animal shipment administration into senior import-export specialist work, animal logistics coordination, customs compliance, trade operations, specialist transport planning or team coordination.
Good to know
Read vacancies for animal species or product group, transport modes, customs systems, animal-health documents, forwarder contact, delivery monitoring, claim handling and whether the post owns documents only or also manages carrier handover and shipment exceptions.
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.
Wholesale of live animals
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is wholesale merchant in live animals.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
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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
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O*NET relationships: 1
Customs Brokers
13-1041.08
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.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
46.23Wholesale of live animals
Alternative labels
senior import export specialist in live animals
senior export specialist in live animals
graduate import specialist in live animals
senior import specialist in live animals
international trade compliance specialist in live animals
assistant export specialist in live animals
trainee import specialist in live animals
graduate export specialist in live animals
assistant import specialist in live animals
graduate import export specialist in live animals
trainee import export specialist in live animals
customs compliance specialist in live animals
trainee export specialist in live animals
assistant import export specialist in live animals
Occupation group
import export specialist (3331.2.1)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/8099a96a-753b-49fc-a36a-d70b8aa9fdcf |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3331.2.1.19 |
| ISCO group | 3331 |
| Concept type | Occupation |