What skills are most in demand for sales roles?

Salesforce, HubSpot, SaaS sales experience, pipeline management, and consultative selling are consistently among the most mentioned skills in ANZ sales job listings. Enterprise roles also frequently require experience with complex deal cycles and multi-stakeholder selling.

How is skills demand measured?

Skills are extracted from active GTM job descriptions using natural language processing. Each skill is counted by how many active listings mention it, and ranked by total mention count and percentage of roles. Data refreshes daily.

What technical skills do GTM roles require?

CRM platforms (Salesforce, HubSpot) are the most common technical requirement across all GTM functions. Marketing roles frequently require marketing automation tools (Marketo, Pardot), while RevOps roles require data analytics, SQL, and BI tools. Sales engineering roles demand product and API knowledge.

Skills Demand

What ANZ employers are looking for

Skills extracted from job descriptions across all active GTM roles.

Top 30 skills across all functions

SkillMentions% of Roles

Customer Service66549.3%

Visual Merchandising38128.2%

Communication32123.8%

Communication Skills28421.1%

Sales25318.8%

Time Management23917.7%

Merchandising19614.5%

Customer Experience19414.4%

Stakeholder Management19014.1%

Retail Sales18613.8%

Team Leadership17112.7%

Stock Management17112.7%

Problem Solving16712.4%

Inventory Management16712.4%

Teamwork15511.5%

Relationship Building15411.4%

Product Knowledge15011.1%

KPI Management14410.7%

Stakeholder Management13530.3%

Business Development13329.9%

Retail Operations1299.6%

Stakeholder Management12351.5%

Account Management11826.5%

Pipeline Management11425.6%

Performance Management1138.4%

Attention To Detail1098.1%

Retail Management1098.1%

Coaching1077.9%

Relationship Building10623.8%

KPI Achievement1067.9%

What ANZ employers are looking for

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