Sales Accounts and Business Development Managers
What they do most days?
Keeps up to date with products and competitors.
Produces reports and recommendations concerning marketing and sales strategies for senior management.
Recruits and trains junior sales staff.
Handles customer accounts.
Compiles and analyses sales figures, prepares proposals for marketing campaigns and promotional activities and undertakes market research.
Discusses employer’s or client’s requirements, carries out surveys and analyses customers’ reactions to product, packaging, price, etc..
Liaises with other senior staff to determine the range of goods or services to be sold, contributes to the development of sales strategies and setting of sales targets.
Hard Skills
Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.
Soft Skills
Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.