Business Sales Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Sales

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Business Sales Skills List in Sales

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Business Sales role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Business Sales job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 55% of Business Sales job descriptions contained business development as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

business development
55%
sales
46%
business sale
28%
sales executive
19%
medical devices
19%
strategic relationships
19%
customer service
19%
saas
14%
territory management
10%
negotiation
10%
entrepreneurship
10%
building relationships
10%
motivation
10%
telephone manner
10%
technical sales
5%
trading
5%
b2b
5%
account management
5%
outbound calls
5%
telesales
5%
it sales
5%
new business opportunities
5%
retail
5%
new business generation
5%
new business development
5%
lead generation
5%
investment banking
5%
banking
5%
office support
5%
highly numerate
5%
communication skills
5%
recruitment
5%
consultative approach
5%
business sales
5%
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While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

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