Commodity experts are one of those specialists whose services are constantly in demand among employers.
Today, workers are in high demand on the Belarusian labour market.
This is also evidenced by the large number of corresponding vacancies in the database of the state employment service.
Features of work
The specifics of a merchandiser's work, as the name suggests, is working with goods.
The specialist also works with documents accompanying the goods, for example, with invoices.
Accordingly, the peculiarity of the profession is to know everything about the products with which one works.
In particular, a commodity expert must have information about who, where and when manufactured a particular product, under what conditions it should be stored, and what the expiration date is.
Also, a commodity expert must understand the quality of a specific product, pricing issues, etc.
In addition, specialists are engaged in the selection of assortment, taking into account the specifics of the activities of their organization, say, a store, warehouse, enterprise, etc.
Well, the direct responsibility of the employee is to keep records of goods with constant quality control.
In addition, a modern commodity expert is also a specialist who understands market conditions and has up-to-date economic and legal information.
He is also responsible for issues related to logistics, as well as issues related to the production-supply-sales chain.
This often leads to another function of a merchandiser, similar to the option of a marketer: analysis of consumer interests and competitors' offers, search for new marketing tools for product promotion, optimization of established schemes, etc.
Terms and Conditions
One of the most characteristic features of this profession is that the work is quite complex, intense, and full of stressful situations.
For this reason, many employers indicate in their vacancies, in addition to professional competence, the presence of certain personal qualities in the specialist.
In particular, they want to see people who are resilient, patient, sociable, and resistant to stress.
And these same stresses happen not only in trade, where we are accustomed to seeing commodity experts.
Such situations also occur in warehouses, enterprises, customs, the construction industry, housing and communal services, agriculture, healthcare, education, etc.
Each of the named industries has its own specifics, which is reflected in the working conditions of the commodity expert.
For example, the conditions of work related to medical drugs or medicines differ significantly from the conditions of work with vegetables or fruits, building materials or industrial products.
Salaries
According to vacancies in the aforementioned State Employment Service database, salaries for commodity experts today range from just over 700 to 2,000 rubles.
For example, the company "GRINreznitsa" (Minsk) offers its employees from 726 to 1,429 rubles.
Exactly 1,400 rubles is the salary promised by the Borisov grain products plant.
Among the highest salaries, it is worth noting amounts ranging from 1,800 to 1,900 rubles.
This is how much the Brest regional base “Grocery” (work in Baranovichi) is ready to pay a leading commodity expert.
Another similar vacancy is authored by JSC Krutogorye-Petkovichi (Dzerzhinsky district).
Well, the leading salaries start at 1,900 rubles and finish at 2,400 rubles.
Thus, the company "Eurotorg" (work in the Minsk region) prepared a salary of 1,918 rubles for a commodity specialist.
From 1,900 to 2,400 rubles - this is an offer from the company "Dobronom". Work also in the Minsk region.
