Writing a sales manager resume

Everything below is counted from 1,053 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: 1,053
Employers: 329
Remote: 13%
Typical pay: $37k–163k
Verified live (7d): 780

What they ask for

Counted across 480 of the most recent 1,053 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Customer Relationship Management59%
Microsoft Excel35%
Microsoft Outlook14%
LinkedIn10%
Microsoft PowerPoint10%
Enterprise Resource Planning2%
SAP2%
ServiceNow2%
WhatsApp2%
Amazon Web Services2%
SAP Business Intelligence1%
Tableau1%
YouTube1%
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 Company48
AccorHotel47
Securitas38
Talent Trader Group31
SCI Texas Funeral Services, LLC.27
Third-Party Job Posts27
Avomind18
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft18
Teltonika16
Sika AG15
Coface13

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