Writing a sales manager resume

Everything below is counted from 1,701 live sales manager postings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 1,701
Employers: 503
Remote: 13%
Typical pay: $38k–172k
Verified live (7d): 1,620

What they ask for

Counted across 784 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Customer Relationship Management53%
Microsoft Excel41%
Microsoft Outlook20%
LinkedIn9%
Microsoft PowerPoint8%
SAP2%
Enterprise Resource Planning2%
Microsoft Word1%
GDPR1%
WhatsApp1%
Skype1%
SAP Business Intelligence1%
ServiceNow1%
Large Language Models1%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

Michaels Stores, Inc.165
The William Carter Company131
AccorHotel86
Securitas38
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft36
Teltonika33
Talent Trader Group31
Third-Party Job Posts27
Avomind19
Sika AG18
Coface16
Ströer SE & Co. KGaA (Ströer Gruppe)15

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