Best Jobs For Former Marketing Managers [2023]

It’s tough to be a marketing 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 marketing manager isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become marketing managers in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many marketing 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 marketing 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 MARKETING 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 MARKETING MANAGERS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Marketing Director	5.24%
2	Marketing Consultant	2.06%
3	Vice President	1.98%
4	Project Manager	1.14%
5	Product Manager	1.14%
6	Consultant	0.93%
7	Marketing Communications Manager	0.91%
8	Owner	0.84%
9	Business Developer	0.84%
10	Account Manager	0.83%
11	Account Executive	0.78%
12	Business Development Manager	0.76%
13	Product Marketing Manager	0.69%
14	Sales Manager	0.69%
15	Senior Manager Of Marketing	0.68%
16	Digital Marketing Manager	0.65%
17	Marketing Specialist	0.64%
18	Senior Manager	0.63%
19	Marketing Coordinator	0.63%
20	Principal	0.6%
21	General Manager	0.6%
22	Brand Manager	0.54%
23	Manager	0.54%
24	Office Manager	0.53%
25	Program Manager	0.52%
26	Operations Manager	0.49%
27	Director	0.47%
28	Director Of Communications And Marketing	0.47%
29	Director Of Sales	0.45%
30	Communications Manager	0.45%
31	President	0.45%
32	Sales Representative	0.43%
33	Senior Product Manager	0.41%
34	Communications Director	0.37%
35	Sales Associate	0.35%
36	Graphic Designer	0.35%
37	Administrative Assistant	0.35%
38	Senior Project Manager	0.35%
39	Sales/marketing	0.35%
40	Account Director	0.35%
41	Marketing/business Development	0.34%
42	Senior Product Marketing Manager	0.33%
43	Founder	0.32%
44	Marketing Program Manager	0.32%
45	Chief Executive Officer	0.32%
46	Director Of Sales And Marketing	0.31%
47	Senior Account Manager	0.29%
48	Regional Sales Manager	0.29%
49	Assistant Manager	0.29%
50	Regional Marketing Manager	0.29%
51	Managing Director	0.28%
52	Social Media Manager	0.28%
53	Customer Service Representative	0.28%
54	Executive Director	0.28%
55	Sales And Marketing Manager	0.27%
56	Store Manager	0.27%
57	Senior Director Of Marketing	0.27%
58	Chief Marketing Officer	0.26%
59	Director, Product Marketing	0.26%
60	Event Manager	0.25%
61	Marketing And Communication Consultant	0.25%
62	Freelance Marketing Consultant	0.25%
63	Owner/operator	0.24%
64	Marketing Communications Specialist	0.24%
65	President/owner	0.23%
66	Marketing Strategist	0.23%
67	Director Of Strategy	0.22%
68	Head Of Marketing	0.22%
69	Director Of Digital Marketing	0.21%
70	Territory Manager	0.21%
71	Internship	0.21%
72	Operations Director	0.2%
73	Principal Consultant	0.2%
74	Sales Consultant	0.19%
75	Senior Director	0.19%
76	Account Supervisor	0.19%
77	Director, Global Marketing	0.19%
78	Senior Consultant	0.19%
79	Senior Brand Manager	0.18%
80	Media Consultant	0.18%
81	Marketing And Operations Manager	0.17%
82	Co-Founder	0.17%
83	Marketing Internship	0.17%
84	Business Consultant	0.17%
85	Business Manager	0.17%
86	Online Marketing Manager	0.17%
87	Writer And Editor	0.17%
88	Brand Marketing Manager	0.17%
89	Marketing Associate	0.16%
90	Search Engine Optimizer	0.16%
91	Marketing Assistant	0.16%
92	Vice President, Business Development	0.16%
93	Executive Assistant	0.16%
94	Communications Specialist	0.16%
95	Team Leader	0.16%
96	Creative Director	0.15%
97	Marketing Contractor	0.15%
98	Marketing Analyst	0.15%
99	Communications Consultant	0.15%
100	Senior Account Executive	0.15%

Most Common Jobs For Former MARKETING MANAGERS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a marketing 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 marketing managers to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former MARKETING MANAGERS

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