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What is a business and marketing manager and how to become one

Updated January 8, 2025
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Tobias Sellier,
Sachin Tuli

Placing a brand or services and products that a company sells and managing the promotion is the responsibility of a business and marketing manager. You are to create brand marketing campaigns to raise awareness and attract more customers to buy your products. To produce excellent marketing values, you are expected to track and analyze the performance of advertising campaigns, ensuring that the marketing materials are related to the brand identity.

Advertising is a key factor in your success. Therefore, providing advertising strategies and driving traffic to your front door, paying acquisition channels like content curation, content creation, copywriting, social media, publicity, and event manager, experimenting with several organics is part of your responsibilities. You must allocate funds wisely and must also be involved in creating the marketing budget.

Other duties involve overseeing marketing materials, giving an adequate report of the marketing campaigns performance and assessing against goals, and creating and engaging content on the website and blog. The ability to work with people, a good sense of humor, creative and writing skills, leadership skills, and attention to detail are vital for this role. The educational qualification of a business and marketing manager is a bachelor's degree in Marketing or other related fields, and their average salary annually is $79,000.

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ScoreBusiness And Marketing ManagerUS Average
Salary
8.5

Avg. Salary $134,607

Avg. Salary $59,228

Stability level
7.5

Growth rate 10%

Growth rate 0.3%

Diversity
3.1
Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 0.23%

Asian 8.15%

Black or African American 3.04%

Hispanic or Latino 8.67%

Unknown 5.32%

White 74.58%

Gender

female 52.60%

male 47.40%

Age - 38
Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 3.00%

Asian 7.00%

Black or African American 14.00%

Hispanic or Latino 19.00%

White 57.00%

Gender

female 47.00%

male 53.00%

Age - 38
Stress level
7.5

Stress level is high

7.1 - high

Complexity level
9.0

Complexity level is advanced

7 - challenging

Work life balance
3.5

Work life balance is poor

6.4 - fair

Business and marketing manager career paths

Key steps to become a business and marketing manager

  1. Explore business and marketing manager education requirements

    Most common business and marketing manager degrees

    Bachelor's

    75.3 %

    Master's

    16.1 %

    Associate

    5.9 %
  2. Start to develop specific business and marketing manager skills

    SkillsPercentages
    Digital Marketing11.67%
    Integrated Marketing9.14%
    B2B Marketing8.88%
    Project Management6.69%
    Market Research5.70%
  3. Complete relevant business and marketing manager training and internships

    Accountants spend an average of 1-3 months on post-employment, on-the-job training. New business and marketing managers learn the skills and techniques required for their job and employer during this time. The chart below shows how long it takes to gain competency as a business and marketing manager based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data and data from real business and marketing manager resumes.
  4. Research business and marketing manager duties and responsibilities

    • Re-Brand and manage secondary Instagram account focuse on product across multiple store locations.
    • Analyze sales data according to ROI objectives to determine the financial value of each market segment opportunity.
    • Compare results to prior year highlighting cost, ROI, top sellers by product, and by customer.
    • Create sales pipeline tracking tool for healthcare business to increase personal accountability, improve forecasting and track performance versus competition.
  5. Apply for business and marketing manager jobs

    Now it's time to start searching for a business and marketing manager job. Consider the tips below for a successful job search:

    1. Browse job boards for relevant postings
    2. Consult your professional network
    3. Reach out to companies you're interested in working for directly
    4. Watch out for job scams

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Average business and marketing manager salary

The average business and marketing manager salary in the United States is $134,607 per year or $65 per hour. Business and marketing manager salaries range between $94,000 and $191,000 per year.

Average business and marketing manager salary
$134,607 Yearly
$64.71 hourly

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Business and marketing manager reviews

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A zippia user wrote a review on Aug 2020
Cons

There's nothing much not to like about this role.


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A zippia user wrote a review on May 2019
Cons

Unreasonable deadlines.

Pros

Overseeing printing For direct mail. Packaging design Developing hot mail list.


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A zippia user wrote a review on May 2019
Cons

None, I really enjoy it


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Updated January 8, 2025

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