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Overview
The work involves sourcing suppliers, understanding buyer specifications, comparing meat product lots, negotiating contracts and keeping financial and delivery records.
In job descriptions, look for meat product knowledge, supplier assessment, buyer contact, commodity negotiation, transport planning, market prices, sales contracts and wholesale account management.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Work centers on matching meat suppliers with buyers that need specific products, quantities and delivery timing. Tasks may include sourcing lots, discussing buyer specifications, negotiating contracts, planning transport and maintaining trade records.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes meat product knowledge, supplier assessment, market-price monitoring, sales contracts and account relationships. Product mix, freshness, cut type and buyer channel can change the practical requirements.
Salary context
Salary context depends on account size, product value, freshness pressure, contract authority, transport responsibility and margin ownership. Roles focused on order handling differ from roles that negotiate supply and buyer contracts.
Career paths
Development can move from sales or purchasing support into meat account management, category buying, supplier management, commodity sales or wholesale team leadership.
Good to know
Check whether adverts specify meat categories, buyer channels, delivery cadence, pricing work, supplier checks and contract authority. These details separate a general sales role from a meat wholesale trading role.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for meat and meat product wholesale, 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 fish crustaceans and molluscs.
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
wholesale trader in meat and meat products
senior wholesale merchant in meat and meat products
wholesaler in meat and meat products
business to business sales consultant in meat and meat products
graduate wholesale merchant in meat and meat products
wholesale buyer in meat and meat products
trainee wholesale merchant in meat and meat products
assistant wholesale merchant in meat and meat products
B2B sales consultant in meat and meat products
wholesale merchandiser in meat and meat products
business to business seller in meat and meat products
Occupation group
wholesale merchant (3324.4)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/58db35e3-fe1f-44d2-8a9e-ab652fc1cec2 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3324.4.22 |
| ISCO group | 3324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |