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Importers and Exporters

Importers and exporters buy commodities from overseas for the home market and sell home-produced commodities to overseas markets.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 16,683
£ 31,211
£ 59,427

New workers start around £16,683. Normal pay is £31,211 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £59,427.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 6,877 vacancies for this type of job

3.37%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Advises home and overseas producers on the likely future demand for their goods.

  • Carries out customs clearance procedures for imports, arranges their storage and delivery and sells them personally or through a commodity broker.

  • Arranges for shipment of commodities overseas and ensures that insurance and export licences are in order.

  • Obtains orders from buyers and arranges payment by bill of exchange, letter of credit or other means.

  • Investigates and evaluates home and overseas demand for particular commodities.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Customs Broking

  • Freight Forwarding

  • Invoicing

  • Data Import/Export

  • Warehousing

  • Booking (Sales)

  • Customs Declarations

  • Customs Procedures

  • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • Auditing

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communications

  • Customer Service

  • Detail Oriented

  • Operations

  • Sales

  • Management

  • English Language

  • Microsoft Excel

  • Computer Literacy

  • Problem Solving

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

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