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Overview
The work combines commercial documentation, customs compliance, export controls, distribution operations and contact with suppliers or recovery partners.
In job descriptions, look for waste or scrap streams, customs documents, export control, substances rules, protective measures, financial risk, market monitoring and partner coordination.
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Waste and scrap import-export management deals with material flows where classification, substance information and destination matter. The role coordinates suppliers, recovery partners, customs documents, transport and commercial decisions.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes customs compliance, export-control principles, substances rules, protective measures, documentation control and process management. Material knowledge helps distinguish metal scrap, mixed waste, recyclable inputs and higher-risk shipments.
Salary context
Pay expectations usually follow responsibility for material risk, shipment value, compliance decisions, partner coordination and process ownership. Roles with approval authority over sensitive waste streams carry different weight from routine dispatch coordination.
Career paths
Experience can lead toward recycling supply-chain management, trade compliance for waste streams, distribution leadership, supplier development or broader import-export management for industrial materials.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name waste categories, scrap types, substances, recovery partners, documents, destination controls and whether the manager decides procedures or simply follows existing dispatch routines.
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This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
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Alternative labels
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Occupation group
import export manager (1324.3.2)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/c71ee6a5-ce48-4afd-aa1e-eaabf17ccbc0 |
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| ESCO code | 1324.3.2.33 |
| ISCO group | 1324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |