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Overview
The work involves tracking market performance, identifying suppliers and buyers, understanding metal grades or ore products and agreeing purchase or sales conditions.
In job descriptions, look for metal and ore product knowledge, market monitoring, supplier risk, buyer contact, commodity negotiation, transport planning, financial terminology and trade records.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Work centers on bulk metal or ore products where grade, volume, market movement and delivery terms affect each trade. The role may include supplier search, buyer matching, price negotiation, transport planning and trade documentation.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes metal and ore product knowledge, market monitoring, financial terminology, supplier-risk assessment and commodity negotiation. Roles with higher scope often require comfort with price movements, specifications and contract exposure.
Salary context
Salary context depends on commodity value, portfolio size, negotiation authority, buyer relationships, transport complexity and financial responsibility. A role with direct trading exposure is different from one that mainly supports administration.
Career paths
Development can move from trade administration into metal account management, sourcing, commodity sales, category buying or a broader industrial wholesale role.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name product grades, ores or metals, buyer industries, pricing references, transport terms and authority to close deals. Those details show the real trading scope.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for metals and metal ores wholesale, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
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Alternative labels
wholesale merchandiser in metals and metal ores
B2B sales consultant in metals and metal ores
business to business seller in metals and metal ores
graduate wholesale merchant in metals and metal ores
wholesale buyer in metals and metal ores
business to business sales consultant in metals and metal ores
trainee wholesale merchant in metals and metal ores
wholesaler in metals and metal ores
senior wholesale merchant in metals and metal ores
wholesale trader in metals and metal ores
assistant wholesale merchant in metals and metal ores
Occupation group
wholesale merchant (3324.4)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b94e2f4c-6604-46a9-bc72-160fc9d2cf36 |
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| ESCO code | 3324.4.23 |
| ISCO group | 3324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |