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
50%
b2b sales
24%
sales executive
24%
telesales
20%
new business
20%
field sales
16%
account management
16%
b2b
16%
call centre
12%
customer service
12%
selling
12%
events
12%
outreach
8%
prospecting
8%
proactive
8%
telephone
8%
outbound calls
8%
b2c
8%
inside
8%
internal
8%
exhibitions
8%
closing
8%
cross selling
8%
german
4%
portfolio
4%
property
4%
european markets
4%
trades
4%
european languages
4%
trading
4%
graduate
4%
trainee
4%
saas
4%
telecoms
4%
communication skills
4%
cold calling
4%
inbound leads
4%
outbound
4%
new clients
4%
leads
4%
computer literate
4%
supply chain
4%
client relationships
4%
customer account manager
4%
hybrid
4%
manufacturing sales
4%
product sales
4%
upselling
4%
media
4%
procurement
4%
technical sales
4%
car driver
4%
telephone manner
4%
contracts
4%
warm leads
4%
saas sales
4%
software sales
4%
internal sales
4%
manufacturing
4%
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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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