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Overview
The work involves locating wholesale buyers and suppliers, matching seafood demand with available stock and concluding trades for large quantities of fish, crustaceans or molluscs.
In job descriptions, look for seafood categories, supplier risk, cold-chain coordination, buyer accounts, product grades, market prices, transport planning, sales contracts and financial records.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
The work centers on seafood lots that must move quickly from supplier to buyer. A role may involve comparing available catches or farmed supply, checking buyer specifications, arranging chilled transport and keeping trade records for fish, crustaceans and molluscs.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes seafood product knowledge, supplier risk assessment, buyer contact, market prices, financial records and sales contracts. Specialization can focus on fresh fish, shellfish, molluscs, food-service accounts or retailer supply.
Salary context
Salary context depends on account size, product perishability, buying authority, transport responsibility, supplier portfolio and negotiation scope. Roles that carry direct margin and contract responsibility usually differ from roles focused on order support.
Career paths
Development can move from sales support or purchasing coordination into seafood account management, category buying, supplier management, commodity sales or team leadership in food wholesale.
Good to know
Check whether vacancies name species groups, freshness requirements, cold-chain steps, buyer segments, order volumes, market-price monitoring, contract authority and financial record duties. Those details show the practical scope of the seafood trade role.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for wholesale fish, crustacean and mollusc trade, 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 meat, meat products, fish and fish products
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is wholesale merchant in meat and meat products.
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
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.
46.32Wholesale of meat, meat products, fish and fish products
Alternative labels
B2B sales consultant in fish
crustaceans and molluscs
wholesale merchant in fish
crustaceans and mollusks
senior wholesale merchant in fish
assistant wholesale merchant in fish
business to business sales consultant in fish
wholesale merchandiser in fish
wholesale trader in fish
trainee wholesale merchant in fish
graduate wholesale merchant in fish
wholesale buyer in fish
business to business seller in fish
wholesaler in fish
Occupation group
wholesale merchant (3324.4)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2ee57107-08c6-4963-bdde-f2ee514e06d5 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3324.4.12 |
| ISCO group | 3324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |