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Overview
The role applies import and export knowledge to live-animal movements, covering commercial documentation, customs clearance, forwarder contact, carriers, transport planning, delivery monitoring and insurance claims when problems occur.
In job descriptions, look for live-animal product knowledge, animal-health distribution rules, protective measures against organisms, food-law wording where relevant, multimodal logistics, customs compliance, carrier handling and multilingual coordination.
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This specialist role keeps shipments of live animals moving with correct documents, customs steps and carrier coordination. Work often means preparing commercial paperwork, checking import or export requirements, arranging transport, monitoring delivery and following up disruptions.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes live-animal product knowledge, customs compliance, import-export documentation, forwarder communication, carrier handling, transport planning, quotes, insurance claims and multilingual contact. Animal-health rules, organism-protection measures and careful handover make coordination more sensitive than ordinary freight.
Salary context
Salary context usually follows shipment complexity, animal-handling sensitivity, route count, documentation risk, carrier coordination, deadline pressure and responsibility for resolving blocked or distressed live-animal consignments.
Career paths
Career paths can move from live-animal shipment administration into senior import-export specialist work, animal logistics coordination, customs compliance, trade operations, specialist transport planning or team coordination.
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Read vacancies for animal species or product group, transport modes, customs systems, animal-health documents, forwarder contact, delivery monitoring, claim handling and whether the post owns documents only or also manages carrier handover and shipment exceptions.
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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
senior import export specialist in live animals
senior export specialist in live animals
graduate import specialist in live animals
senior import specialist in live animals
international trade compliance specialist in live animals
assistant export specialist in live animals
trainee import specialist in live animals
graduate export specialist in live animals
assistant import specialist in live animals
graduate import export specialist in live animals
trainee import export specialist in live animals
customs compliance specialist in live animals
trainee export specialist in live animals
assistant import export specialist in live animals
Occupation group
import export specialist (3331.2.1)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/8099a96a-753b-49fc-a36a-d70b8aa9fdcf |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3331.2.1.19 |
| ISCO group | 3331 |
| Concept type | Occupation |