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Overview
Business service managers organise professional services for companies, tailor delivery to client needs and agree contractual obligations with clients and providers.
In job descriptions, look for service contracts, client needs, budgets, staffing, facilities management, administrative systems, service providers, reporting, purchasing rules and business plans.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
This management role links client requirements, service delivery, staff, suppliers and contracts. The work often covers facilities, administration or other professional support services that must run predictably for a business customer.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include client consultation, contract management, budgeting, staffing, supplier negotiation, reporting, administrative systems and turning incoming orders into workable service schedules.
Salary context
Pay context depends on contract size, budget authority, staff responsibility, number of sites or clients, purchasing accountability and whether the manager owns service performance targets. This guide does not provide salary amounts.
Career paths
Career paths may grow from administration, facilities, procurement, account coordination or team leadership into larger service portfolios, operations management or strategic business-service roles.
Good to know
Check whether the advert names the service area, client portfolio, contract scope, budget, supplier duties, reporting line and measures used to judge service quality.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Business and other management consultancy activities
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include project manager, equality and inclusion manager and policy manager.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 1
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
43-1011.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
70.2Business and other management consultancy activities
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Business services and administration managers not elsewhere classified (1219)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/3c136897-4e0e-41ef-bb57-d8152323b93a |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 1219.1 |
| ISCO group | 1219 |
| Concept type | Occupation |