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Overview
This work focuses on wholesale transactions for machinery products, industrial tools, ships and aircraft. The merchant researches buyers and suppliers, checks needs and risks, and concludes trades involving large quantities or high-value goods.
In job descriptions, look for capital goods, supplier risk, buyer and seller contact, market research, sales contracts, transport operations, international markets and knowledge of machinery, vessels or aircraft.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
This merchant role is about finding wholesale buyers and suppliers for machinery, industrial equipment, ships or aircraft and turning that match into a trade. Work combines product understanding, supplier risk, buyer contact, contracts and transport planning.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes capital goods, machinery products, industrial tools, aircraft and vessel types, market research, supplier identification, buying conditions, sales contracts, financial terminology and international market performance.
Salary context
Salary context depends on deal size, product value, international scope, supplier risk, negotiation responsibility, transport complexity, financial record responsibility and whether the merchant owns buyer and seller relationships.
Career paths
Career paths can move toward senior wholesale merchant, B2B sales management, procurement, export sales, product-category management, supplier development or commercial coordination for industrial equipment.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name machinery, tools, vessels or aircraft; buyer research; supplier risk; contract negotiation; transport operations and market scope. The product category changes the knowledge needed.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific 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.
Activities of agents involved in the wholesale of machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is shipbroker.
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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
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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.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
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Economic activities linked to this occupation.
46.14Activities of agents involved in the wholesale of machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft
Alternative labels
assistant wholesale merchant in machinery
industrial equipment
ships and aircraft
wholesale merchandiser in machinery
wholesale buyer in machinery
trainee wholesale merchant in machinery
graduate wholesale merchant in machinery
B2B sales consultant in machinery
business to business sales consultant in machinery
wholesale trader in machinery
senior wholesale merchant in machinery
business to business seller in machinery
wholesaler in machinery
Occupation group
wholesale merchant (3324.4)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/650c4c7b-8cd8-4671-a38e-6e37e45e0c8e |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3324.4.20 |
| ISCO group | 3324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |