Best Jobs For Former Account Managers [2023]

It’s tough to be a account manager nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a account manager isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become account managers in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many account managers no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former account managers to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Best Jobs For Former ACCOUNT MANAGERS

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former ACCOUNT MANAGERS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Account Executive	3.15%
2	Sales Representative	1.51%
3	Senior Account Manager	1.29%
4	Customer Service Representative	1.25%
5	Project Manager	1.25%
6	Sales Manager	1.24%
7	Business Development Manager	1.06%
8	Operations Manager	0.99%
9	Business Developer	0.87%
10	Regional Sales Manager	0.73%
11	Manager	0.7%
12	Vice President	0.7%
13	Marketing Manager	0.69%
14	Sales Associate	0.69%
15	Administrative Assistant	0.68%
16	Owner	0.64%
17	Office Manager	0.63%
18	Territory Manager	0.61%
19	Consultant	0.59%
20	Sales Consultant	0.59%
21	Director Of Sales	0.57%
22	Recruiter	0.54%
23	General Manager	0.52%
24	Program Manager	0.49%
25	Senior Account Executive	0.48%
26	Product Manager	0.44%
27	Account Director	0.38%
28	Store Manager	0.38%
29	National Account Manager	0.37%
30	Marketing Director	0.37%
31	Team Leader	0.34%
32	Assistant Manager	0.34%
33	District Sales Manager	0.34%
34	Sales Specialist	0.31%
35	Senior Project Manager	0.31%
36	Operations Director	0.28%
37	Regional Accounts Manager	0.27%
38	Owner/operator	0.27%
39	Business Analyst	0.26%
40	Marketing Coordinator	0.26%
41	Human Resources Manager	0.26%
42	Branch Manager	0.26%
43	Human Resources Coordinator	0.25%
44	Sales/marketing	0.25%
45	President	0.25%
46	Inside Sales Representative	0.25%
47	Key Account Manager	0.24%
48	Marketing Consultant	0.24%
49	Specialist	0.24%
50	Sales Account Manager	0.23%
51	Regional Manager	0.23%
52	Project Coordinator	0.23%
53	Director	0.23%
54	Business Manager	0.22%
55	Client Services Manager	0.22%
56	Billing Specialist	0.22%
57	Service Manager	0.22%
58	Senior Recruiter	0.22%
59	Account Representative	0.22%
60	Substitute Teacher	0.21%
61	Supervisor	0.21%
62	Territory Sales Manager	0.21%
63	Marketing Specialist	0.2%
64	Internship	0.19%
65	Senior Manager	0.19%
66	Accountant	0.19%
67	Executive Assistant	0.19%
68	District Manager	0.19%
69	Sales And Marketing Manager	0.19%
70	Server	0.19%
71	Senior Sales Representative	0.18%
72	Analyst	0.18%
73	Customer Service Manager	0.17%
74	Customer Service Trainer	0.17%
75	Principal	0.17%
76	Account Supervisor	0.17%
77	Strategic Accounts Manager	0.17%
78	National Sales Manager	0.17%
79	Cashier	0.16%
80	Director Of Sales And Marketing	0.16%
81	Associate	0.16%
82	Service Representative	0.16%
83	Teacher	0.15%
84	Agent	0.15%
85	Sales Engineer	0.15%
86	Underwriter	0.15%
87	Buyer	0.15%
88	Senior Consultant	0.15%
89	Volunteer	0.15%
90	Registered Nurse	0.15%
91	Coordinator	0.14%
92	Technical Recruiter	0.14%
93	Account Specialist	0.14%
94	Managing Director	0.14%
95	Operation Supervisor	0.14%
96	Office Assistant	0.14%
97	Chief Executive Officer	0.14%
98	Outside Sales Representative	0.14%
99	Security Officer	0.14%
100	Relationship Manager	0.13%

Most Common Jobs For Former ACCOUNT MANAGERS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a account manager would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former account managers to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former ACCOUNT MANAGERS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed account manager under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a account manager, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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