Trade education with specializations

On commercial education, you become a specialist in B2B trade. You work with procurement, sales, inventory, and logistics and ensure that goods and agreements move safely from A to B. The education makes you a skilled worker who understands the entire trading cycle — from negotiation to delivery.

§What do you do in everyday life?

Your day is filled with customer and supplier contact. You make quotes negotiate prices and follow orders all the way to delivery. You keep track of inventory freight and delivery times and ensure everything fits in the systems. You are the link that makes trade flow smoothly and that customers can rely on.

• 01You learn to purchase and sell goods between businesses.
• 02You become good at negotiating prices and agreements
• 03You learn to manage inventory, orders, and logistics.
• 04You understand how a company makes money from trade
• 05You become strong in customer contact and follow-up
• 06You learn to work with IT and retail systems.

§How do you get started?

You start with a basic course at a vocational school in the commercial sector. You then find an apprenticeship in a retail or wholesale company and enter into a training agreement. You alternate between school and practical training and get paid throughout your education.

§The way forward

As a skilled person in trade you can become a seller buyer key account manager or logistics coordinator. With experience you can move towards sales management or purchasing manager and you can study further in for example marketing economist or commercial economist if you want deeper into the business.

“The best deal is the one where both customer and supplier leave the table happy.”