What can you become?

Having been exposed to various departments and roles within organisations, you’ll have insight into different processes and colleagues' responsibilities. You’ll know how to handle diverse tasks, objectives, and personalities in your role. You’ll foster collaboration across the company and build strong relationships with clients, enabling you to thrive in a variety of settings.

Supply Chain Planner

As the person responsible for managing the distribution of a specific product range, you oversee product availability and delivery timelines to meet client demand. Together with sales colleagues, you coordinate requirements and, if items are out of stock, you communicate with clients and provide alternatives.

Trader

As a trader, you handle quotations, daily offers, and proactive client engagement. You process orders, monitor purchasing and sales processes, and undertake acquisition. Frequent visits to clients, both domestically and internationally, allow you to build new relationships and maintain existing ones.

Account Manager

Your role is to establish a positive product brand presence. Alongside your team, you develop a long-term plan to increase market share or introduce innovations. You follow market trends and work with the marketing team to launch products in new markets.

Business Development Specialist

In this role, you assist entrepreneurs, organisations, and businesses with issues such as permits, emission reduction, ingredient efficiency, or process improvements. Working for an agency, you contribute to projects promoting healthier or climate-neutral business models across various locations, or you may choose to work independently.

Further studies?

Once you’ve completed your bachelor’s degree, you may either begin your career immediately or opt to pursue a master’s degree at a university of applied sciences or a research university. Options include Business Administration:

• MSc Business Administration, for example, in Rotterdam or Nyenrode. Both the Netherlands and international institutions offer a wide range of programmes in this field at universities of applied sciences and research universities. An MBA is also an option, though generally some work experience is required.
• Other options in economics, available both domestically and internationally, include:
  • Management, Economics, and Consumer Studies (Wageningen University)
  • MSc Supply Chain Management (VU Amsterdam)

Some students also continue into a master’s programme in agriculture (such as Agroecology, Sustainable Agriculture) or in fields like Data Science.