Sale manager

- Bachelor's degree in marketing or business administration.
- MBA preferred.
- Two to three years of experience as a sales manager.
- Three to five years of sales experience.
- Proven track record of positive sales performance.
- Analytical skills. Sales managers must collect and interpret complex data to target the most promising geographic areas and/or demographic groups, and determine the most effective sales strategies.
- Communication skills. Sales managers need to work with people in other departments and with customers, so they must be able to communicate clearly.
- Customer-service skills. When helping to make a sale, sales managers must listen and respond to the customer’s needs.
- Leadership skills. Sales managers must be able to evaluate how their sales staff performs and must develop strategies for meeting sales goals.