Sales, Marketing and Procurement Careers Guide

About Sales, Marketing & Buying Careers

Behind the world of retail and shopping is a huge industry of people who get the word out, help people understand the goodness of a product of service, and choose what’s in the shops.

People in sales are needed to link customers with an employer’s products or services, and show them why they’re great. It’s about being able to excite people with your point of view and really understanding a product or service, so that people want to buy it or get involved.

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Marketing professionals help spread the word in creative ways, from guest blogs to viral campaigns. Marketing is the art of communication and reaching out to people who will be most interested in your company’s product or service.

Finally, the folks in procurement are all about buying supplies or services to make the business run more cheaply and efficiently. Procurement basically means ‘getting something’. If you work in procurement, you could be doing anything from negotiating multi-million pound contracts to creating super-smooth supply chains which move products from A to B. It’s quite exciting, and could open lots of career doors.

• Administrative assistant
• Advertising account executive
• Advertising account planner
• Advertising art director
• Advertising copywriter
• Advertising media buyer
• Advertising media planner
• Antique dealer
• Art editor
• Art valuer
• Bookseller
• Broadcast journalist
• Call centre operator
• Commissioning editor
• Copy editor
• Design and development engineer
• Digital marketer
• Director of photography
• E-commerce manager
• Editorial assistant
• Exhibition designer

• Graphic designer
• Illustrator
• Image consultant
• Indexer
• Land and property valuer and auctioneer
• Magazine journalist
• Market research data analyst
• Market research executive
• Market researcher
• Market trader
• Marketing director
• Marketing executive
• Marketing manager
• Media researcher
• Medical illustrator
• Medical sales representative
• Newspaper journalist
• Newspaper or magazine editor
• Photographer
• Pre-press operator
• Public relations account manager

• Public relations director
• Public relations officer
• Reprographic assistant
• Retail buyer
• Retail jeweller
• Retail manager
• Retail merchandiser
• Sales administrator
• Sales assistant
• Sales executive
• Sales manager
• Sales representative
• Signwriter
• Social Media Coordinator
• Sports agent
• Stock control assistant
• Sub-editor
• Visual merchandiser
• Web content editor
• Web designer
• Writer