Wool Buyer Career Assessment
Occupation Code
639212List
ROL
Descriptions
Values and buys wool sold by wool growers.
Job Description
- Monitoring sales data and stock levels, and studying trade, manufacturers' and market information to keep informed of changing market conditions
- Negotiating purchase, promotion and supply arrangements with suppliers
- Designing and implementing pricing, marketing, promotional and display strategies
- Liaising with management on long-term planning and sales promotions
- Establishing working plans according to seasonal and budgetary requirements
- Anticipating consumer trends and determining quantity, style and quality of goods to be purchased
- Inspecting, comparing, selecting and valuing wool by determining colour, yield, micron and length
- Inspecting and buying wool at auction, in wool brokers' stores and in farm sheds
- Receiving samples from scoured wool exchanges
- May visit freezing works to buy slipe wool
Types of visas you can apply for
Other visa types
494 - Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (provisional) (subclass 494) - Employer sponsored stream
187 - Regional Sponsor Migration Scheme (subclass 187)
Skill Assessment
Skills Assessment Requirements
Applicants are required to have academic qualifications related to the nominated position PhD / Bachelor (including Honours Bachelor and Master) / Diploma completed in Australia / Australian Level 3 Certificate - AQFⅢ/Ⅳ compeleted in Australia 52 weeks of study time in Australia
Work requirements
Applicants are required to have: at least 104 weeks of post-graduation work experience in Australia related to the nominated position
a qualification assessed in AQF Certificate IV with a highly relevant field of study and at least one year of post-qualification highly relevant work at an appropriate skill level in the past five years; or no highly relevant field of study and at least two years of post-qualification highly relevant work at an appropriate skill level in the past five years; or a qualification assessed in AQF Certificate III with a highly relevant field of study and at least three years of post-qualification highly relevant work at an appropriate skill level in the past five years;
Assessment Agency
- VETASSES