Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an ICT product manager can go next

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

ICT product managers analyse and define current and target status for ICT products, services or solutions. They estimate the cost effectiveness, points of risk, opportunities, strengths and weaknesses of products or services provided. ICT product managers create structured plans and establish time scales and milestones, ensuring optimisation of activities and resources.

Also known as ICT product managers, IT product manager, IT products manager, ICT products managers, ICT products manager.

Managers 50 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: ICT project manager, 33%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
ICT project manager 33% covered ICT presales engineer 28% covered IT auditor 27% covered ICT business analyst 25% covered ICT operations manager 22% covered ICT product manager You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from ICT product 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 an ICT product manager already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An ICT product manager needs 23 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
  • conduct impact evaluation of ICT processes on business information skills
  • ICT hardware specifications information and communication technologies (icts)
  • perform product planning management skills
  • plan product management management skills
  • assess ICT knowledge management skills
  • create project specifications management skills
  • ICT infrastructure engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • ICT market business, administration and law
  • ICT system user requirements information and communication technologies (icts)
  • monitor technology trends information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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ICT product 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 an ICT product 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.