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Overview
The work involves investigating wholesale buyers and suppliers, matching demand with available chemical products and concluding trades involving large quantities of goods.
In job descriptions, look for chemical product portfolios, supplier qualification, buyer requirements, order documentation, safety data sheets, storage limits, delivery coordination and contract terms.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Chemical-product wholesale is document-heavy compared with many trading roles. Work can include confirming product grades, quantities, buyer requirements, supplier reliability, storage limits and the paperwork needed before large orders move.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes product classification, safety data sheets, order records, supplier qualification, contract terms and careful communication with buyers. Accuracy matters because similar chemical names can represent different grades or uses.
Salary context
For wholesale merchant in chemical products roles, salary context depends on product risk, order value, technical knowledge, account responsibility, contract authority and chemical documentation duties.
Career paths
A wholesale merchant in chemical products can move toward chemical category buying, technical sales, key account management, compliance-adjacent coordination or supplier development for industrial products.
Good to know
Check whether chemical-products wholesale adverts name product families, documentation duties, storage or transport constraints, customer industries, supplier approval steps and technical product advice.
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 chemical products
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is import export specialist in chemical products.
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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
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
41-4011.00
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.
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Official sources and licenses
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
46.85Wholesale of chemical products
Alternative labels
graduate wholesale merchant in chemical products
trainee wholesale merchant in chemical products
business to business sales consultant in chemical products
business to business seller in chemical products
wholesaler in chemical products
wholesale buyer in chemical products
B2B sales consultant in chemical products
wholesale trader in chemical products
assistant wholesale merchant in chemical products
senior wholesale merchant in chemical products
wholesale merchandiser in chemical products
Occupation group
wholesale merchant (3324.4)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/c7ffc270-7bd2-4bb1-a51a-4766170d7935 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3324.4.4 |
| ISCO group | 3324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |