Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a product and services manager can go next

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

Product and services managers are in charge of defining the content and structure of a catalogue or portfolio within a company.

Also known as graduate e-catalogue manager, marketing e-catalogue manager, assistant product and services manager manager, trainee e-catalogue manager, senior e-catalogue manager, online e-catalogue manager, sales e-catalogue manager, graduate product and services manager, customer e-catalogue manager, customer product and services manager manager, marketing catalogue manager, e-catalogue manager.

Professionals 27 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: department store manager, 27%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
department store manager 27% covered network marketer 21% covered sales account manager 20% covered sales processor 19% covered call centre supervisor 17% covered product and services mana… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from product and services 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 product and services 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

A product and services manager needs 19 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
  • assign codes to product items handling and moving
  • handle requests for new product items communication, collaboration and creativity
  • develop the product catalogue communication, collaboration and creativity
  • ensure products meet regulatory requirements assisting and caring
  • services marketing business, administration and law
  • channel marketing business, administration and law
  • apply business acumen management skills
  • plan marketing strategy management skills
  • content marketing strategy business, administration and law
  • ensure finished product meet requirements management skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Product and services manager is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 product and services 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.