Where a sales account manager can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a sales account manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Sales account managers serve as intermediators between clients and the organisation, managing both sales and long term relations with the client. They have knowledge about products and services and develop contracts with customers.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 51%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 1difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 34required or supplementary
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- technical sales representative in office machinery and equipment 31% covered · difficulty 71.7
- technical sales representative in chemical products 31% covered · difficulty 71.7
- technical sales representative in agricultural machinery and equipment 31% covered · difficulty 71.7
- technical sales representative in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment 31% covered · difficulty 71.7
- technical sales representative in mining and construction machinery 31% covered · difficulty 71.7
- technical sales representative in the textile machinery industry 31% covered · difficulty 72.2
- technical sales representative in electronic and telecommunications equipment 31% covered · difficulty 72.2
- advertising sales agent 29% covered · difficulty 74.2
- technical sales representative in machinery and industrial equipment 27% covered · difficulty 76.7
- technical sales representative 27% covered · difficulty 78.7
- after-sales service technician 26% covered · difficulty 70.5
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sales account 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 sales account 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.