Recently, we have witnessed an increase in the meaning and need for international trade in order to ensure economic growth. Precisely because of the increased importance and assumption of a large role in the economic growth of the country, management in international trade and its five functions were chosen as the topic of this paper. The manager plays an important role in achieving the desired results of a company. Since today's market, especially the international one, is dynamic and turbulent, the pressure on managers is big. Therefore, it is important that the manager has developed, described in the paper, abilities and characteristics in order to work successfully in all five functions of management. Numerous integrations and institutions have been established for successful and safe international trade, one of which will be explained in the paper. In order to make the topic clearly understandable, the method of synthesis, analysis, concretizacion, induction, generalization and description. will be used. Thus, the introduction of the paper will introduce the topic, followed by presentation of the basics of management and its functions. The concept of international trade, its forms and the following legal features will also be defined. The role of management in international trade will be linked and the characteristics of a successful manager in international trade will be described.