Where a sales manager can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a sales manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
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.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 69%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 2difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 62required or supplementary
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- category manager 58% covered · difficulty 55.6
- marketing manager 54% covered · difficulty 62.2
- online community manager 51% covered · difficulty 63.3
- business developer 37% covered · difficulty 63.7
- client relations manager 29% covered · difficulty 76
- marketing consultant 29% covered · difficulty 75
- book publisher 28% covered · difficulty 70.5
- retail department manager 26% covered · difficulty 72.8
- market research analyst 25% covered · difficulty 80.2
- brand manager 25% covered · difficulty 79.5
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sales 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 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.