Where a trade regional manager can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a trade regional manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Trade regional managers are responsible for activities and staff in an assigned region for a specific chain of stores.
Also known as area sales manager, store trade regional manager, assistant trade regional manager, regional sales and marketing manager, regional product sales manager, regional sales manager, trainee trade regional manager, graduate trade regional manager, senior trade regional manager.
Managers 42 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: retail entrepreneur, 47%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A trade regional manager needs 27 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- enforce company values management skills
- analyse data for policy decisions in trade information skills
- apply territory planning management skills
- expand store regional presence management skills
- use IT systems for commercial purposes working with computers
- handle financial overviews of the store information skills
- carry out sales analysis information skills
- carry out statistical forecasts information skills
- set up pricing strategies information skills
- ensure compliance with purchasing and contracting regulations assisting and caring
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a trade regional manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- retail entrepreneur 47% covered · difficulty 59.6
- supply chain manager 32% covered · difficulty 72.4
- wholesale merchant in clothing and footwear 21% covered · difficulty 81.1
- wholesale merchant in electrical household appliances 21% covered · difficulty 81.1
- wholesale merchant in household goods 21% covered · difficulty 81.1
- wholesale merchant in office furniture 21% covered · difficulty 81.1
- wholesale merchant in office machinery and equipment 21% covered · difficulty 81.1
- ICT buyer 20% covered · difficulty 81.8
- wholesale merchant in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies 20% covered · difficulty 81.9
- packaging production manager 17% covered · difficulty 84
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Trade regional manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. 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 trade regional 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.