Sales worker supervisors help their teams stay motivated and on track to meet their sales goals, while ensuring no customer leaves dissatisfied. Dealing with the public is critical to success for sales worker supervisors; contact with customers or staff is frequent. They need strong leadership skills and the knowledge to handle additional duties such as budgeting, accounting, and human resources tasks. Most sales supervisors are responsible for hiring, training, and evaluating their staff. In retail sales, supervisors schedule and manage sales workers for an entire store or a single department. Retail sales supervisors work at all manner of stores, from big box and department stores to small clothing boutiques, grocers and supermarkets to gas stations and car dealerships. In non-retail sales environments, such as wholesalers, credit card companies, or travel agencies, supervisors coordinate sales workers’ activities, and develop strategies to increase sales and promote the business. They resolve customer complaints regarding services, products, or personnel. Jobs are typically full time, and the majority of supervisors work more than 40 hours a week. Sales worker supervisors typically need a high school diploma and related work experience; some positions may require a bachelor’s degree.
What they do:
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of retail sales workers in an establishment or department. Duties may include management functions, such as purchasing, budgeting, accounting, and personnel work, in addition to supervisory duties.
On the job, you would:
Provide customer service by greeting and assisting customers and responding to customer inquiries and complaints.
Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or in performing services for customers.
Examine merchandise to ensure that it is correctly priced and displayed and that it functions as advertised.
Business
customer service
management
Arts and Humanities
English language
Education and Training
teaching and course design
Engineering and Technology
computers and electronics
Basic Skills
listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
talking to others
Social
looking for ways to help people
changing what is done based on other people's actions
People and Technology Systems
thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Verbal
communicate by speaking
listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
notice when problems happen
order or arrange things
People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need:
Integrity
Stress Tolerance
Cooperation
Leadership
Dependability
Adaptability/Flexibility
You might use software like this on the job:
Data base user interface and query software
Oracle Database
Yardi software
Video creation and editing software
Apple Final Cut Pro
YouTube
Point of sale POS software
CyberMatrix POS
Plexis Software Plexis POS
high school diploma/GED or associate's degree usually needed
Get started on your career:
New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
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