Where a commercial sales representative can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a commercial sales representative already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Commercial sales representatives represent a company in selling and providing information on goods and services to businesses and organisations.
Also known as sales executive, sales and marketing consultant, field sales executive, sales and marketing executive, sales consultant, commercial salesman, business development representative, field sales representative, commercial sales consultant, commercial salesperson, sales representative, territory manager.
Technicians and associate professionals 76 skills on file 5 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: technical sales representative in the textile machinery industry, 82%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- technical sales representative in machinery and industrial equipment 79% covered · difficulty 29.3
- technical sales representative 78% covered · difficulty 31
- after-sales service technician 64% covered · difficulty 37.5
- technical sales representative in the textile machinery industry 82% covered · difficulty 24
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A commercial sales representative needs 32 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- advise on merchandise features communication, collaboration and creativity
- prospect new regional contracts communication, collaboration and creativity
- demonstrate motivation for sales management skills
- keep records on sales information skills
- carry out sales analysis information skills
- implement customer follow-up communication, collaboration and creativity
- contact customers communication, collaboration and creativity
- keep records of customer interaction information skills
- consumer goods industry business, administration and law
- record customers' personal data information skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a commercial sales representative does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- technical sales representative 62% covered · difficulty 51.7
- technical sales representative in machinery and industrial equipment 51% covered · difficulty 62.5
- technical sales representative in chemical products 50% covered · difficulty 63.1
- technical sales representative in electronic and telecommunications equipment 50% covered · difficulty 63.1
- technical sales representative in office machinery and equipment 50% covered · difficulty 63.1
- technical sales representative in agricultural machinery and equipment 49% covered · difficulty 63.8
- technical sales representative in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment 49% covered · difficulty 63.8
- technical sales representative in mining and construction machinery 49% covered · difficulty 63.8
- technical sales representative in the textile machinery industry 49% covered · difficulty 63.8
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Commercial sales representative is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a commercial sales representative’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.