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Overview
The work involves tracking market performance, identifying suppliers and buyers, understanding metal grades or ore products and agreeing purchase or sales conditions.
In job descriptions, look for metal and ore product knowledge, market monitoring, supplier risk, buyer contact, commodity negotiation, transport planning, financial terminology and trade records.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Work centers on bulk metal or ore products where grade, volume, market movement and delivery terms affect each trade. The role may include supplier search, buyer matching, price negotiation, transport planning and trade documentation.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes metal and ore product knowledge, market monitoring, financial terminology, supplier-risk assessment and commodity negotiation. Roles with higher scope often require comfort with price movements, specifications and contract exposure.
Salary context
Salary context depends on commodity value, portfolio size, negotiation authority, buyer relationships, transport complexity and financial responsibility. A role with direct trading exposure is different from one that mainly supports administration.
Career paths
Development can move from trade administration into metal account management, sourcing, commodity sales, category buying or a broader industrial wholesale role.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name product grades, ores or metals, buyer industries, pricing references, transport terms and authority to close deals. Those details show the real trading scope.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for metals and metal ores 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 metals and metal ores
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is import export specialist in metals and metal ores.
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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.
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.
46.82Wholesale of metals and metal ores
Alternative labels
wholesale merchandiser in metals and metal ores
B2B sales consultant in metals and metal ores
business to business seller in metals and metal ores
graduate wholesale merchant in metals and metal ores
wholesale buyer in metals and metal ores
business to business sales consultant in metals and metal ores
trainee wholesale merchant in metals and metal ores
wholesaler in metals and metal ores
senior wholesale merchant in metals and metal ores
wholesale trader in metals and metal ores
assistant wholesale merchant in metals and metal ores
Occupation group
wholesale merchant (3324.4)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b94e2f4c-6604-46a9-bc72-160fc9d2cf36 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3324.4.23 |
| ISCO group | 3324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |