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Trade development officer jobs in Finland

Trade development officers develop and implement trade policies both internally and in international import and export relations. They analyse the domestic and foreign markets in order to promote and establish business operations, and ensure trade proceedings are compliant with legislation and businesses are protected from distortions.

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Trade development officer - Which skills are essential?

Develop strategies for the promotion of free trade, open competition between businesses for the development of economic growth, in order to gain support for free trade and competition regulation policies.

Maintain good relations with representatives of the local scientific, economic and civil society.

The procedures related to the application of government policies at all levels of public administration.

Establish a connection between organisations or individuals which may benefit from communicating with one another in order to facilitate an enduring positive collaborative relationship between both parties.

Inspect public and private organisations to ensure proper implementation and compliance with government policies which apply to the organisation.

Develop strategies which support economic growth and facilitate productive trade relations both nationally and internationally.

Pre-defined commercial terms used in international commercial transactions which stipulate clear tasks, costs and risks associated with the delivery of goods and services.

Economic principles and practices, financial and commodity markets, banking and the analysis of financial data.

The field of market analysis and research and its particular research methods.

The terminology related to the design and implementation of major trends and aims which are taken by an organisation's executives, while keeping in mind its resources, competition and environments.

Know the principles that govern the import and export of products and equipment, trade restrictions, health and safety measures, licenses, etc.

The legal regulations that maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive behaviour of companies and organisations.

The legal rules that govern how corporate stakeholders (such as shareholders, employees, directors, consumers, etc) interact with one another, and the responsibilities corporations have to their stakeholders.

Build positive communication dynamics with organisations from different countries in order to build a cooperative relationship and optimise information exchange.

Gather, assess and represent data about target market and customers in order to facilitate strategic development and feasibility studies. Identify market trends.

Trade development officer - Which skills are useful but not essential?

Research long term possibilities for improvements and plan steps to achieve them.

Different elements and phases of project management.

Maintain the liaison and exchange of information with regional or local authorities.

The tool used in performing fiscal financial management to identify revenue trends and estimated financial conditions.

Establish and maintain cordial working relationships with peers in different governmental agencies.

Investigate practices and methodologies used by businesses or organisations which restrict free trade and competition, and which facilitate market dominance by a single firm, in order to identify the causes and come up with solutions in order to ban these practices.

Develop plans which ensure a cooperation between international public organisations such as researching different international organisations and their goals and assessing possible alignment with other organisations.

Reach out to and meet up with people in a professional context. Find common ground and use your contacts for mutual benefit. Keep track of the people in your personal professional network and stay up to date on their activities.

Advise organisations on how they may improve their compliance to the applicable government policies they are required to adhere to, and the necessary steps which need to be taken in order to ensure complete compliance.

Manage and plan various resources, such as human resources, budget, deadline, results, and quality necessary for a specific project, and monitor the project's progress in order to achieve a specific goal within a set time and budget.

Determine the influence of economical, political and cultural risk factors and additional issues.

Advise officials in a legislature on the propositioning of new bills and the consideration of items of legislation.

Establish a positive, long-term relationship between organisations and interested third parties such as suppliers, distributors, shareholders and other stakeholders in order to inform them of the organisation and its objectives.

Manage the operations of the implementation of new government policies or changes in existing policies on a national or regional level as well as the staff involved in the implementation procedure.

Look after groups of government officials or company executives coming to the country in order to assess the potential for economic cooperation.

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Sources

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.

How we calculated these figures