How would you react if you were offered the opportunity of travelling abroad regularly, meeting and keeping in touch with new people, learning something new about agribusiness every day, and end up getting paid for it? Well, this is what your job would look like if you were an export manager. And guess what? We would love to help you prepare for a career in export management in our Export Management minor programme.

What does export management involve?
In a nutshell, it is selling agricultural and food products to companies in other countries. As an export manager you could be working for a bulb grower, an agri-tech firm, a horse breeder, a food processing company or another organization in agribusiness. It is your job to develop marketing plans and export plans for the products of your company, by collecting and analyzing information from contacts in your network. That means you will be in regular contact with clients, distributors, colleagues, your manager and other people working in the agricultural and food sectors. And, because of the international element of your job, you will spend a fair bit of time travelling and speaking English.

What will you learn?
If you want to become an export manager, you do not necessarily have to be a natural-born salesperson, although it definitely helps. More important are your communication and people skills and a head for figures. The programme focusses on further development of communication; entrepreneurial and business skills; problem solving; conceptualization; intercultural knowledge; decision-making under pressure; EU trade policy; and knowledge of agribusiness.

Agribusiness companies
These are some of the companies that students who took this minor before you work for: Agrifirm, Danone, Enza, Intervet, Numico, Nunhems, Nutreco, Royal Friesland Campina, Topigs, Unilever, Zuidberg Techniek.

A student, who has completed the third year of a business course can be assumed to have sufficient foundation.

Other students can contact the module coordinator, t.medema@aeres.nl to find out if they have the required entry level.

Semester 1 2024-2025:
On Friday in the weeks: 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 2.

Code: AEXM01
Name: writing of an export plan + intership
EC: 5
Type exam: report

Code: AEXM03
Name: Export planning
EC: 3
Type exam: written exam
Type of learning tool: Export Planning – Joris Leeman – ISBN 9789043035705
(also useful for AEXM01)

Code: AEXM04
Name: Management simulation Phone Ventures
EC: 2
Type exam: assignment
Type of learning tool: Phone Ventures software

Code: AEXM05
Name: Intercultural Management
EC: 3
Type exam: assignment
Type of learning tool: The culture map breaking through the invisible boundaries of global business – Erin Meyer – ISBN 9781610392501

Code: AEXM06
Name: European Union trade policy
EC: 2
Type exam: assignment
Type of learning tool: The trade policy of the European Union – Sieglinde Gstöhl and Dirk de Bièvre – ISBN 9780230271975

Aeres UAS – Green at heart
Aeres University of Applied Sciences (UAS) is the food and agriculture study programme specialist in the Netherlands, which is the second largest agricultural exporting country in the world. The Dronten faculty of Aeres UAS is literally located close to Nature and to farmland, making it a green organization at heart. Many of its study programmes are about an important basic need, namely food. The atmosphere is similar to that of a country town, where people are easy-going, friendly and willing to help one another. So, it is hardly surprising that in every programme, much time is spent on personal development. After all, it is people who get the job done.

Apply now!
So, what do you think? Can you see yourself playing your part in agricultural export? Apply now or click the link for more information on the Export Management minor.