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

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Sales Executive Skills List in Sales

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Sales Executive role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Sales Executive job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 66% of Sales Executive job descriptions contained sales as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

sales
66%
business development
44%
telesales
22%
field sales
22%
call centre
18%
b2b sales
18%
new business
18%
sales executive
18%
selling
14%
account management
14%
customer service
9%
b2c
9%
b2b
9%
cold calling
5%
solar pv
5%
cross selling
5%
inbound leads
5%
leads
5%
outbound calls
5%
outbound
5%
telecoms
5%
procurement
5%
european languages
5%
european markets
5%
german
5%
new clients
5%
waste management
5%
direct sales
5%
experienced sales professional
5%
recycling
5%
retail sales
5%
solar industry
5%
manufacturing
5%
supply chain
5%
car driver
5%
computer literate
5%
telephone manner
5%
contracts
5%
warm leads
5%
saas sales
5%
software sales
5%
internal sales
5%
communication skills
5%
technical sales
5%
portfolio
5%
property
5%
trades
5%
trading
5%
graduate
5%
trainee
5%
saas
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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