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

Communication1.1k68.2%

Customer service99163.6%

Sales59037.9%

Teamwork44928.8%

Product knowledge37223.9%

Relationship building33121.3%

Problem solving31820.4%

Time management28118.0%

Retail operations27117.4%

Visual merchandising26617.1%

Merchandising24315.6%

Attention to detail19712.6%

Stock management16710.7%

Communication16242.3%

KPI management16110.3%

Interpersonal skills16010.3%

Communication skills1539.8%

Retail management1519.7%

Team leadership1519.7%

Negotiation15039.2%

Stakeholder management1479.4%

Inventory management1409.0%

Strategic planning13735.8%

Business development13435.0%

Coaching1318.4%

Strategic planning1318.4%

Adaptability1278.2%

Retail sales1258.0%

Stakeholder management11548.7%

Relationship building11229.2%

What ANZ employers are looking for

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