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 Service87050.0%

Communication42524.4%

Sales37021.3%

Communication Skills32218.5%

Merchandising29517.0%

Visual Merchandising28516.4%

Inventory Management28016.1%

Time Management27315.7%

Stakeholder Management26215.1%

Problem Solving22913.2%

Team Leadership22512.9%

Retail Sales20912.0%

Relationship Building20812.0%

Customer Service19836.7%

Customer Experience18710.8%

Retail Operations17810.2%

Teamwork17810.2%

KPI Management17410.0%

Budget Management1548.9%

Leadership1448.3%

Stock Management1327.6%

Stock Processing1287.4%

Product Knowledge1257.2%

Strategic Planning1227.0%

Interpersonal Skills1186.8%

Sales11821.9%

Attention To Detail1136.5%

Performance Management1086.2%

Business Development10419.3%

Collaboration1046.0%

What ANZ employers are looking for

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