You can get into this job through:
You could do a degree before joining a company as a graduate management trainee. Employers recruit graduates from a range of subjects. Particularly relevant subjects include:
For some jobs, like selling hi-tech scientific or engineering equipment, employers may prefer you to have a qualification in that field.
Entry requirements:
Entry requirements:
You could complete a sales executive higher apprenticeship before applying for a trainee manager job.
For sales manager roles selling to businesses, you could do a business to business sales professional degree apprenticeship.
Entry requirements:
You'll need experience in sales and a record of achieving targets. Most employers will consider your sales and management experience, market knowledge and track record to be more important than your academic qualifications.
You could also be considered for specialist sales management jobs if you have a background in designing or manufacturing the products your team are selling.
You could take a professional qualification like:
Digital skills : to be able to use a computer and the main software packages competently
Skills:Sales managers organise, coach and lead teams of sales representatives to work towards agreed targets.
In your day-to-day duties you might:
Location : You could work at a store, in an office, at a client's business or in a contact centre.