Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a category manager can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a category manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Category managers define the sales programme for specific product groups. They research market demands and newly supplied products.

Also known as product category specialist, recycling equipment category manager, FMCG category manager, raw materials category specialist, general merchandise category manager, senior category manager, g.m. category manager, graduate category manager, indirect category manager, logistics design and procurement category manager, merchandising category specialist, category development manager.

Managers 58 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: promotion manager, 70%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
promotion manager 70% covered sales manager 59% covered marketing manager 54% covered online community manager 52% covered chief marketing officer 52% covered category manager You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from category manager, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a category manager already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A category manager needs 47 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • store design layout arts and humanities
  • market participants business, administration and law
  • select optimal distribution channel management skills
  • conflict management business, administration and law
  • evaluate marketing content information skills
  • define measurable marketing objectives management skills
  • perform product planning management skills
  • identify potential markets for companies management skills
  • integrate marketing strategies with the global strategy management skills
  • marketing mix business, administration and law
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a category manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Category manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a category manager’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.