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

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Sales Manager Skills List in Sales

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Sales Manager role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Sales Manager job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 64% of Sales Manager job descriptions contained sales as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

sales
64%
business development
41%
sales manager
23%
area sales
19%
account management
14%
technical sales
10%
telesales
10%
telecommunications
10%
account manager
10%
engineering
10%
field sales
10%
logistics
10%
account
10%
automotive
5%
business sale
5%
call centre
5%
sales team
5%
restoration
5%
estimator
5%
commercial real estate
5%
negotiation
5%
property
5%
real estate
5%
real estate transactions
5%
utilities
5%
b2b
5%
building services
5%
hvac
5%
m&e contractors
5%
mechanical
5%
pumps
5%
healthcare
5%
medical
5%
regional manager
5%
manager
5%
field sales manager
5%
international sales
5%
chemistry
5%
recruitment
5%
sales experience
5%
distributor management
5%
science
5%
b2b sales
5%
new business
5%
sales process
5%
new business generation
5%
key account management
5%
regional sales manager
5%
sales management
5%
sales team manager
5%
creative solutions
5%
sales engineer
5%
area sales manager
5%
boilers
5%
heating
5%
merchants
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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