Sales manager

Sales manager is one of the most popular professions, his main task is to sell company goods and services, expand the range of clients and maintain partnership relations with them. Any company hassales manager position. Most of his working time, a sales specialist conducts negotiations (telephone or personal).

Professional skills

We offer you a possible list of professional skills for preparing sales manager resume.

  • Active / direct sales skills;
  • Negotiation and business correspondence skills;
  • Receivables control skills ;
  • Sales planning skills;
  • Skills in dealing with objections;
  • Skills in drafting commercial proposals;
  • Telephone sales skills;
  • Delivery or services granting contracts registration skills;
  • Office programs knowledge : MS Word, Excel;
  • The ability to persuade;
  • The ability to communicate with people;
  • Team work skills;
  • The ability to plan and organize my work day;
  • Cold calls (customer search and retention).

Personal and business qualities

We offer a list of personal qualities and skills, suitable for sales manager position:

  • analytical mind;
  • fast learner;
  • high efficiency;
  • willingness to take responsibility;
  • grammatically correct speech;
  • discipline;
  • cheerful;
  • initiative;
  • sociable;
  • multitasking:
  • focus on results;
  • optimism;
  • ability to handle stress;
  • self-confidence;
  • sense of purpose.

Sales Manager Resume Sample

Ivanov Ivan
Address: Kharkov, Ivanova str., 1, Apt. 1
Phone: (050) 111-11-11
E-mail: I.ivanov@gmail.com

Objective: to obtain the position of sales manager.

Professional skills:

  • Advanced computer and office equipment user.
  • Languages: Russian — fluent; English — Upper-Intermediate.
  • Sales technology and psychology knowledge.
  • Presentation skills.
  • Persuation skills

Work experience:

August 2015 — now — sales manager, 4P LLC (distribution of household goods).

Functional responsibilities:

  • Full management of retail customers.
  • Requests processing.
  • Work with company's primary documentation.
  • Customers invoicing.
  • Receivables tracking.
  • Managing customesr database.
  • Solving problem situations with customers.

Achievements:

  • Increased sales by 22% over the period of working.

Education: 2010-2015, Kharkiv National Economic University, Faculty of Management and Marketing.

Additional education: «Technique of sales», «Dealing with objections» trainings.

Personal qualities: initiative, sociable, hard worker, responsible, able to handle stress.

Recommendations available upon request.

Sales manager jobs can be found here. Additional education you can get at specialised courses and trainings. For more effective job search you can contact recruitment agency.