Where a wholesale merchant can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a wholesale merchant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Wholesale merchants investigate potential wholesale buyers and suppliers and match their needs. They conclude trades involving large quantities of goods.
Also known as graduate wholesale merchant, wholesale buyer, wholesale manager, business to business sales consultant, business to business seller, assistant wholesale merchant, B2B sales consultant, wholesale merchandiser, senior wholesale merchant, wholesale trader, trainee wholesale merchant, wholesaler.
Technicians and associate professionals 75 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: import export manager, 51%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- import export manager 51% covered · difficulty 60.8
- import export manager in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft 38% covered · difficulty 67.1
- import export specialist 37% covered · difficulty 74.6
- import export manager in household goods 35% covered · difficulty 68
- distribution manager 33% covered · difficulty 74.8
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A wholesale merchant needs 19 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- consumer goods industry business, administration and law
- initiate contact with sellers communication, collaboration and creativity
- initiate contact with buyers communication, collaboration and creativity
- negotiate sale of commodities communication, collaboration and creativity
- identify new business opportunities management skills
- assess supplier risks information skills
- identify suppliers management skills
- monitor international market performance information skills
- comprehend financial business terminology information skills
- sales strategies business, administration and law
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a wholesale merchant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- wholesale merchant in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft 50% covered · difficulty 61.1
- wholesale merchant in clothing and footwear 50% covered · difficulty 61.4
- wholesale merchant in electrical household appliances 50% covered · difficulty 61.4
- wholesale merchant in household goods 50% covered · difficulty 61.4
- wholesale merchant in office furniture 50% covered · difficulty 61.4
- wholesale merchant in office machinery and equipment 50% covered · difficulty 61.4
- wholesale merchant in wood and construction materials 48% covered · difficulty 62.7
- wholesale merchant in agricultural machinery and equipment 48% covered · difficulty 63.5
- wholesale merchant in agricultural raw materials, seeds and animal feeds 48% covered · difficulty 63.5
- wholesale merchant in beverages 48% covered · difficulty 63.5
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Wholesale merchant is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a wholesale merchant’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.