Occupation Atlassales manager
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a7594892-ff23-4e2a-aedf-2f967ebca15c
sales manager
Sales managers develop sales and targeting strategies for a company. They manage sales teams, allocate sales resources based on the plans, prioritise and follow up on critical leads, develop sales pitches and adjust them over time, and maintain a sales platform to track all leads and sales.
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Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
ECSEnterprising · Conventional · Social — the three strongest interests, in order
- E Enterprising7.00
- C Conventional5.53
- S Social3.37
- I Investigative1.67
- R Realistic1.49
- A Artistic1.36
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Sales Managers (11-2022.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (42)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- align efforts towards business development
- analyse business plans
- analyse consumer buying trends
- analyse customer service surveys
- analyse external factors of companies
- analyse internal factors of companies
- analyse work-related written reports
- brand marketing techniques
- carry out sales analysis
- consumer goods industry
- content marketing strategy
- coordinate marketing plan actions
- corporate social responsibility
- create annual marketing budget
- define measurable marketing objectives
- develop professional network
- evaluate marketing content
- identify potential markets for companies
- impart business plans to collaborators
- implement sales strategies
- integrate marketing strategies with the global strategy
- integrate strategic foundation in daily performance
- make strategic business decisions
- manage profitability
- manage staff
- market pricing
- marketing mix
- motivate employees
- perform market research
- plan marketing campaigns
- plan marketing strategy
- prepare visual data
- pricing strategies
- produce sales reports
- sales argumentation
- sales department processes
- sales strategies
- set sales goals
- study sales levels of products
- supervise sales activities
- track key performance indicators
- write work-related reports
Optional (20)
- analyse supply chain strategies
- collaborate in the development of marketing strategies
- communicate with customers
- customer segmentation
- define geographic sales areas
- estimate profitability
- forecast sales over periods of time
- integrate headquarter's guidelines into local operations
- international business
- investigate customer complaints of food products
- liaise with managers
- manage accounts
- manage budgets
- manage distribution channels
- market research
- present arguments persuasively
- public relations
- recruit personnel
- statistics
- teach marketing principles
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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