What is a Sales/Field Sales Manager?

If you thrive on being in charge of a team, then you might consider becoming a sales manager. In this position organization is everything. To ensure your team is running efficiently, you'll want to establish organization right off the bat.

Sometimes you'll be required to travel, that's just the nature of the job. In most situations, you'll only be working 40 hours a week, but since you're a sales manager, you'll probably have some weekends where you'll have to work a little extra.

Sales managers typically earn a bachelor's degree and have some work experience before becoming a sales manager. If nothing else, you'll want to be able to prove that you're a natural salesperson because a lot of your job requires you to train your team on how to attract and maintain customers.

As regional sales manager, sales are your life. You get to be responsible for making sure your company's products or services are distributed to the right places. And then, of course, are sold to customers. But you'll be doing this without interacting with customers.

So, how do you sell those products or services? Well, you train and develop a solid sales team to do it for you. Sounds easy enough, right? Most regional sales managers don't start off in this position, though. You may have to earn that position through time and experience.

While you may not need a college degree to get this position, you will want to have enough experience on your resume to support why you deserve to be named regional sales manager. That means you'll need a background in sales, leadership skills, and you'll need to know the industry like the back of your hand.

A district sales manager is responsible for the performance of sales teams in a certain region where the business of a larger or mid-size company is present.

They make sure the members of the sales teams are always at the top of their game by providing training and self-improvement opportunities. They create progress reports and present them to management, set sales goals, and make sure they are achieved.

Demand for sales growth never goes out of fashion, so it is not surprising that a steady 5% growth in the employment of district sales managers is predicted until 2024.