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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
£18,515
£30,433
£47,834

New workers start around £18,515. Normal pay is £30,433 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £47,834.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 8,570 vacancies for this type of job

6.76%

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 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

  • Invoicing

  • Freight Forwarding

  • Data Import/Export

  • Customs Declarations

  • Warehousing

  • Customs Regulations

  • Customs Procedures

  • Auditing

  • Data Entry

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.

  • Communication

  • Customer Service

  • Operations

  • Detail Oriented

  • Management

  • Organizational Skills

  • English Language

  • Computer Literacy

  • Microsoft Excel

  • 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.

Routes to this career

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Marketing

De Montfort University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Leicester · 09/2024

Tariff points: 112/112

Business with Digital Marketing

Liverpool John Moores University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Liverpool · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/128

Marketing (with Foundation Year)

Liverpool Hope University

BA (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time including foundation year · Liverpool · 09/2024

Tariff points: 72/72

Digital Marketing

Sheffield Hallam University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Sheffield · 09/2024

Tariff points: 112/120

Business with Marketing

Anglia Ruskin University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Cambridge · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 96/96

Marketing

University of Portsmouth

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Portsmouth · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/120

Marketing

Buckinghamshire New University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · High Wycombe · 30/09/2024

Tariff points: 88/112

Marketing

Teesside University, Middlesbrough

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich · Middlesbrough · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 80/104

Digital Marketing Top-up

University College Birmingham

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Variable · Birmingham · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

International Marketing (Top-Up)

Coventry University

BA (Hons) · 1 Year · Full-time · Coventry · 09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Marketing

Nottingham Trent University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Nottingham · 13/09/2024

Tariff points: 120/128

Marketing (Top Up)

University of Chichester

BA (Hons) · 1 Year · Full-time · Chichester · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Marketing

University of Leicester

BA (Hons) · 3-4 Years · Full-time · Leicester · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 128/128

Marketing

University of Huddersfield

BA (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich · Huddersfield · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/120

Marketing (with Foundation Year)

Bangor University

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time including foundation year · Bangor, Gwynedd · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 48/96

Marketing

Bristol, University of the West of England

BA (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich · Bristol · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/112

Marketing with Study Abroad Year

University of Southampton

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time with time abroad · Southampton · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Marketing (with Foundation Year)

Bournemouth University

BSc (Hons) · 5 Years · Sandwich including foundation year · Poole · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 48/72

Marketing

Bath Spa University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Bath · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 104/128

Marketing Communications with AI Integration

University of Westminster, London

BA (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich including industrial placement · London · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/112

Marketing (Digital Innovation)

University of Gloucestershire

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Gloucester · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 104/104

Marketing

Manchester Metropolitan University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Manchester · 09/2024

Tariff points: 120/128

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