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Overview
The work involves finding wholesale buyers and suppliers, matching product needs and concluding large-quantity trades for coffee, tea, cocoa, spices or related products.
In job descriptions, look for origin lots, grades, samples, supplier contact, buyer accounts, bulk orders, product specifications, delivery timing and portfolio management.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
This wholesale role resembles ingredient trading, with attention to origin, grade, samples and customer use. Work can include comparing supplier lots, discussing flavour or quality needs, negotiating volume and coordinating delivery windows.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes product tasting language, supplier sourcing, buyer accounts, order records, portfolio planning and handling samples. Coffee, tea, cocoa and spice trades often depend on consistent quality and clear batch identity.
Salary context
For wholesale merchant in coffee, tea, cocoa and spices roles, salary context depends on traded volume, account value, product category, sourcing responsibility, supplier network and recurring contracts.
Career paths
A wholesale merchant in coffee, tea, cocoa and spices can move toward ingredient buying, category management, key account sales, sourcing coordination or food product portfolio responsibility.
Good to know
Check whether coffee, tea, cocoa and spices wholesale adverts name origins, grades, samples, customer channel, supplier regions, quality checks, order size and recurring buyer relationships.
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 coffee, tea, cocoa and spices
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is green coffee buyer.
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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, Except Technical and Scientific Products
41-4012.00
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.
46.37Wholesale of coffee, tea, cocoa and spices
Alternative labels
senior wholesale merchant in coffee
tea
cocoa and spices
wholesaler in coffee
graduate wholesale merchant in coffee
business to business sales consultant in coffee
B2B sales consultant in coffee
assistant wholesale merchant in coffee
trainee wholesale merchant in coffee
wholesale merchandiser in coffee
business to business seller in coffee
wholesale trader in coffee
wholesale buyer in coffee
Occupation group
wholesale merchant (3324.4)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/6fc25650-e69b-43c7-b4d5-3ca95acd7696 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3324.4.7 |
| ISCO group | 3324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |