Driving revenue through digital channels — owning the sales targets for the e-commerce business, leading sales or account teams in B2B models, partnering with marketing, merchandising, and operations to hit the numbers. The role tends to be revenue-accountable and number-driven.
Most days mix revenue performance review, sales activity management, customer or account-team conversations, and cross-functional partnership with marketing, merchandising, and operations. The setting shapes the texture — B2B e-commerce involves account management cycles, B2C is more campaign-and-conversion oriented — but the unifying thread is revenue accountability for the digital business.
What's harder than people expect is the disconnect between effort and outcome in digital sales. Campaigns underperform, search results shift, competitors price aggressively, traffic dries up for reasons that aren't obvious — and monthly numbers can swing for causes outside your direct control. The discipline of separating signal from noise, and adjusting actions based on real causes rather than reactive ones, is real craft.
People who tend to thrive here are commercially sharp, comfortable with revenue pressure, and skilled at motivating sales or partner teams through the inevitable swings. The role tends to be a strong path to head of sales, e-commerce director, or commercial leadership positions. The trade-off is monthly and quarterly revenue scrutiny that doesn't let up, and the visibility of misses tends to outweigh the visibility of hits.
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View all Business Operations roles →Driving revenue through digital channels — owning the sales targets for the e-commerce business, leading sales or account teams in B2B models, partnering with marketing, merchandising, and operations to hit the numbers. The role tends to be revenue-accountable and number-driven.
Median pay for an E-Commerce Sales Manager is about $81K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $46K to $148K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Speaking, Critical Thinking, and Service Orientation.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 3% through 2034, with roughly 1.1 million people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include E-commerce Sales Coordinator / E-commerce Sales Associate, Sales Director, and E-Commerce Director (Electronic Commerce Director).
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