Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a commercial director can go next

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

Commercial directors are responsible for the income generation for the commercial sector of their company. They manage several commercial tasks such as setting targets, overseeing the development of products, planning and developing selling efforts, managing sales agents, and determining product prices.

Managers 32 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: department store manager, 25%

department store manager 25% covered client relations manager 23% covered contact centre supervisor 22% covered publishing rights manager 22% covered shop supervisor 21% covered commercial director You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from commercial director. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a commercial director already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Index

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

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a commercial director already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.