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How to become a sales manager: 44 beginner jobs open today
Five steps for people changing careers, with the figures from today’s 1,225 open sales manager postings: what employers ask for first, how much experience, and what beginners are paid.
- Open jobs today
- 1,225
- Open to beginners
- 44
- Experience asked, median
- 5 years
- Beginner pay, median
- $290K
Five steps to your first sales manager job
- Know what the work is. A sales manager leads a team of salespeople: hires, coaches, sets targets and forecasts revenue. Beginner postings today use titles like Sales Manager; Sales Manager, SME & Growth; SaaS Sales Manager; Sales Manager, Startups - Hunter; Area Sales Manager.
- Learn the duties, not only the tools. Postings for this work describe what you will do more than which software you will use: read ten of them and list the duties that repeat.
- Build proof you can show. Two or three results with a number, from a job, a course project or volunteer work. The kind of line a recruiter looks for: “Led a team of 8 that closed $11M, 112% of target”.
- Write the resume and the letter. Start from the sales manager resume example and the cover letter example, and replace every line with your own.
- Apply where beginners are hired. 44 of today’s 1,225 open sales manager jobs are junior or intern roles or ask for two years of experience or less. See the open jobs and check each one with the resume match checker before you apply.
Questions about becoming a sales manager
- How much experience do sales manager jobs ask for?
- The median in today’s postings is 5 years; 7% of the postings that name a number ask for two years or less.
- Do I need a degree to become a sales manager?
- 4% of today’s 1,225 postings say no degree is required. Many others accept equivalent experience: read the requirements of each posting.
- How much does a beginner sales manager earn?
- Junior and intern postings for this work that state pay advertise a median of $290K a year (12 postings).
Everything about sales manager work
Counted from the open postings on Nov 14, 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages and recounted on every update. Beginner jobs: junior and intern titles, and postings that ask for two years of experience or less.