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Sales Managers
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.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Oversee regional and local sales managers and their staffs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Resolve customer complaints regarding sales and service.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Monitor customer preferences to determine focus of sales efforts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Confer with potential customers regarding equipment needs, and advise customers on types of equipment to purchase.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Review operational records and reports to project sales and determine profitability.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Plan and direct staffing, training, and performance evaluations to develop and control sales and service programs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Direct and coordinate activities involving sales of manufactured products, services, commodities, real estate, or other subjects of sale.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Determine price schedules and discount rates.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Prepare budgets and approve budget expenditures.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Confer or consult with department heads to plan advertising services and to secure information on equipment and customer specifications.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss4%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
45%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 56% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.
AI tools for your work
Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps sales use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.