Buyers & Purchasing Agents, Farm Products
Purchase farm products either for further processing or resale. Includes tree farm contractors, grain brokers and market operators, grain buyers, and tobacco buyers.
Also called: Buyer, Grain Buyer, Grain Merchandiser, Merchandising Manager
Knowledge:
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
- customer service
- accounting and economics
- movement of people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road
Skills:
- talking to others
- thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
- bringing people together to solve differences
- talking people into changing their minds or their behavior
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- use rules to solve problems
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need
- Stress Tolerance
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Integrity
- Analytical Thinking
- Initiative
Technology:
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Microsoft Dynamics GP
- SAP
- IBM Lotus Notes
- Microsoft Outlook
Data base user interface and query software
- Microsoft Access
- Product producer databases
