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Overview
They identify wholesale buyers and suppliers, match demand with available sugar, chocolate and confectionery products, and negotiate sales or buying conditions for large quantities.
In job descriptions, look for confectionery product ranges, supplier contact, buyer needs, commodity negotiation, transport planning, sales strategy, financial records and market research.
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This wholesale role centers on traded food categories where sugar, chocolate and confectionery ranges must match buyer demand, supplier capacity and delivery timing.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include supplier identification, product range understanding, sales-contract negotiation, financial records, buyer contact and transport planning for seasonal or promotional volumes.
Salary context
Pay context depends on sales volume, supplier portfolio, account responsibility, product category breadth, seasonal pressure and whether buying and selling conditions are both part of the role.
Career paths
Career movement can start in food wholesale sales, purchasing, customer service or logistics. It may grow toward category sales, buyer roles, supplier development or distribution coordination for confectionery lines.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name sugar, chocolate or confectionery categories, buyer segments, supplier negotiations, transport windows and financial records. Product wording matters more than a generic sales title.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for wholesale merchant work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary 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 sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is import export specialist in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery.
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.
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Official sources and licenses
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
46.36Wholesale of sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery
Alternative labels
Occupation group
wholesale merchant (3324.4)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/6c2b32b4-2f62-4288-a359-3406022c3610 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3324.4.29 |
| ISCO group | 3324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |