Sales Manager
Plan, direct, or coordinate the actual distribution or movement of a product or service to the customer. Coordinate sales distribution by establishing sales territories, quotas, and goals and establish training programs for sales representatives. Analyze sales statistics gathered by staff to determine sales potential and inventory requirements and monitor the preferences of customers.
This score estimates how exposed the tasks in a role are to current and near-term AI capabilities. It does not predict whether a specific person will lose a job.
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This occupation baseline already contains different kinds of work. These are the two ends of its current task range and one useful action you can take now.
Most exposed task
Review operational records and reports to project sales and determine profitability.
Augmentable 60/100 exposure
Most durable task
Visit franchised dealers to stimulate interest in establishment or expansion of leasing programs.
Durable 15/100 exposure
Useful next step
Make one change to the task mix
Compare one real week with the exposed tasks, test one supervised delegation, and redirect the saved time toward more durable work.
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No task is classified fully automatable in this release. The highest-exposure task relative to this role is shown in the free snapshot above; the assistive work is detailed next.
Augmentable tasks
Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.
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Review operational records and reports to project sales and determine profitability.60
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Review pipeline and forecasts55
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Monitor customer preferences to determine focus of sales efforts.55
Most durable tasks
Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.
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Represent company at trade association meetings to promote products.15
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Visit franchised dealers to stimulate interest in establishment or expansion of leasing programs.15
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Build key customer relationships20
Task exposure values and classifications are published, versioned estimates audited against the anchored rubric. This page reads them from the data release rather than generating them at request time. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.
What this means
A score of 38 puts Sales Manager in the third quartile of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this high is about the mix: 0 of 20 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 9 augmentable, and 11 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.
Lower-exposure adjacent roles
No adjacent role in the current data release is at least 10 points lower with ≥50% skill overlap — we don’t label anything “safer” unless the data supports it.
Labor-market context
- $135,160median wage
- +4.0%projected growth
Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.
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Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.
How this score was calculated
The score is the plain average of the AI-exposure values of this role’s 20 analyzed tasks (equal task weights in this release — no hidden factors):
- Augmentable 9 tasks, averaging 51/100 exposure
- Durable 11 tasks, averaging 26/100 exposure
score = (9×51 + 11×26) ÷ 20 ≈ 38
Every task’s exposure value was scored against a published anchored rubric that scores tasks as actually performed — physical, in-person, and accountability requirements included (data release 2026.07.12-r2). The band (High) is a corpus quartile; the percentile is tie-aware across all 968 occupations.
FAQ — Sales Manager
- Will AI replace Sales Manager?
- This score cannot predict whether this occupation or any individual job will be replaced. It shows which tasks current and near-term AI can perform or accelerate, which tasks remain more durable, and where a worker can adapt. Employer decisions, demand, regulation, and how the role changes are outside the score.
- What does a score of 38 mean for a Sales Manager?
- It means that, weighted across the 20 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 38 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the third quartile of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.
- Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?
- This role has no strongly automatable task in the current data release.
- Which parts of this job are most durable?
- The most durable responsibilities are: Represent company at trade association meetings to promote products; Visit franchised dealers to stimulate interest in establishment or expansion of leasing programs; Build key customer relationships. Durable tasks typically depend on judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability.
- Is this score personalized to me?
- No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.
Score version jr-v1 · data release 2026.07.12-r2 · updated 2026-07-13 · baseline mapping: 16 of 20 tasks carry source-level provenance · methodology