Was machen Aussenhandelsleiter?

What do foreign trade managers do?

Foreign trade managers usually carry out the following activities:

  • Strategy and management:
    • They continuously analyze the international market and its developments and develop concepts for foreign trade in goods and services.
    • develop a risk management system with the management
    • draw up a business plan for foreign trade in their area of responsibility
    • Creating partial and total budgets and monitoring compliance with them
    • Calculate foreign trade figures and derive and implement suitable measures from them
    • create concepts for targeted national and international marketing
    • examine the possibilities of an internationalization strategy
  • Supporting projects and major customers
  • Check, monitor and optimize processes
  • Managing and supporting employees

Suitable training courses/seminars: