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80 skills are associated with this occupation.
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Essential skills / competences
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Optional knowledge
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Overview
Import export manager work is about setting and maintaining procedures for cross-border business, so goods, documents, partners and internal teams move through import and export processes in an organised way.
In job descriptions, look for customs compliance, trade documentation, export controls, international transactions, distribution operations, market performance, financial risk and coordination with suppliers, carriers and customers.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Import export managers organise the procedures that let cross-border trade run without confusion between sales, logistics, finance, customs contacts and external partners. The work often includes maintaining import and export routines, checking trade documents, coordinating shipments and making sure internal teams understand who owns each step.
Skills and specializations
Strong roles usually combine customs compliance, export control awareness, international transaction rules and practical distribution management. Useful specializations can sit around particular product groups, dangerous goods or dual-use goods, but the common thread is control of documents, deadlines, partners and commercial risk.
Salary context
Pay comparison should focus on the value and risk of the trade flow being managed. Roles with authority over customs compliance, export control principles, international import export regulations, financial risk, international contracts, supplier escalation or several markets normally carry a different level of responsibility than roles focused mainly on administration and follow-up.
Career paths
Career growth can move from import or export coordination into responsibility for trade compliance, distribution operations, international sales support or wider logistics management. Evidence of reliable documentation, clear routines, negotiation support and calm handling of delayed shipments or compliance questions is especially useful.
Good to know
Read vacancies for the exact trade scope: import, export or both; product categories; countries or regions; customs systems; carriers; and who signs off documentation. Also check whether the manager leads people, owns procedures, handles financial risk or mainly coordinates specialists.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for import export manager work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
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Alternative labels
senior customs compliance manager
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assistant customs compliance manager
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assistant import export manager
graduate international trade compliance manager
assistant export manager
assistant international trade manager
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trainee export manager
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Occupation group
logistics and distribution manager (1324.3)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b87a7a27-ee74-4e5e-b274-84a3cab27bf4 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 1324.3.2 |
| ISCO group | 1324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |