Training

Business management assistant

Training period 3 years

A good operating result depends to some extent on your work as an industrial business management assistant. You are responsible for marketing activities ranging from analysing market potentials through to customer service.

 

Field of activity
  • In materials logistics management, you are helping to buy in favourably-priced yet qualitatively high-grade goods. You also compare supply quotations, negotiate with suppliers and support incoming materials and their storage operations
  • In product management, you both plan, control and monitor the production of goods and the setting up of services as well as seeing to the preparation of order advice notes
  • Your field of operations in Sales is bound up with preparing cost calculations and price lists, submitting bids and chairing customer advisory and sales negotiations.
  • In Accounting and Financing you process, enter and check on those matters arising in business payment transactions.
  • Your training also takes you into our Human Resources Dept. where you become thoroughly acquainted not only with legal and standard wage matters but also with setting up wage and salary accounts
Career prospects after successful training:
  • Balance sheet accountant
  • Controller
  • Commercial specialist
  • Business economist
Requirements

School-leaving qualification:
university entrance qualification ("Fachhochschulreife") as a minimum

Level of education:
An in-depth knowledge of the following school subjects provides the requirements for successful training:

  • Business economics
  • Mathematics
  • English
  • Data processing
  • Typewriting

Inclinations and interests:

  • A leaning towards commercial thinking

    A leaning towards office and administrative work (e.g. drawing up lists of parts and operating plans, completing order advice documents)

  • Interest in bookkeeping (e.g. entering operations, attending to pay and salary slips)
  • A leaning towards handling data and figures
  • A leaning towards customer-oriented work (acquiring, counselling and supporting customers)
  • A leaning towards work involving testing and checking (process optimization)