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Partnerships / channel manager — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Marketing Managers · Advertising and Promotions Managers · Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products · Purchasing Managers · First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers · First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers · General and Operations Managers · Advertising Sales Agents
In the official classification#
Sales Managers
Fit with this page: closest match, not the same job
Job Zone 4: considerable preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 11-2022.00 (Sales Managers). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- NegotiationVery important
- Social PerceptivenessVery important
- PersuasionVery important
- Judgment and Decision MakingVery important
- Management of Personnel ResourcesVery important
- CoordinationVery important
- InstructingVery important
- Complex Problem SolvingVery important
Knowledge
- Sales and MarketingExtremely important
- Customer and Personal ServiceVery important
- English LanguageVery important
- Administration and ManagementVery important
- Personnel and Human ResourcesImportant
- Computers and ElectronicsImportant
Work activities
- Selling or Influencing OthersExtremely important
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal RelationshipsExtremely important
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or SubordinatesExtremely important
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsExtremely important
- Developing and Building TeamsExtremely important
- Guiding, Directing, and Motivating SubordinatesExtremely important
Abilities
- Oral ComprehensionVery important
- Written ComprehensionVery important
- Oral ExpressionVery important
- Written ExpressionVery important
- Problem SensitivityVery important
- Deductive ReasoningVery important
Essential skills
- Active ListeningVery important
- SpeakingVery important
- Reading ComprehensionVery important
- Critical ThinkingVery important
- MonitoringVery important
Tasks O*NET proposes to add#
O*NET's analysts propose new or reworded task statements for future data collection, drawing on what surveyed workers write in, research into new technologies and professional associations. They are candidates, not yet part of the rated task list, and they say nothing about whether automation is involved. This site does not fold them into its own task judgements.
- Coach staff on sales tactics.New task · 2025-08 · from occupational experts · O*NET 31.0
- Establish and monitor staff's sales goals.New task · 2025-08 · from occupational experts · O*NET 31.0
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 6 task judgements are for: 1 backed by a verified event, 5 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
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- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.