Where a category manager can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a category manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Category managers define the sales programme for specific product groups. They research market demands and newly supplied products.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 70%
- Destinations
- 5each with a full record
- Within reach
- 2difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 58required or supplementary
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
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category manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a category manager already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.