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Overview
Craft shop managers run specialist stores for sewing, painting, pottery and other craft supplies, with responsibility for staff, stock, displays, budgets and customers.
In job descriptions, look for craft advice, supplier relations, purchasing, goods labelling, pricing, promotional displays, theft prevention, online shop orders, sales goals and customer feedback.
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Search jobsWork Context
Craft shop managers combine retail operations with knowledge of sewing, painting, pottery and hobby materials. A normal week can include staff planning, supplier orders, merchandise displays, pricing, stock checks, customer advice and follow-up of sales levels.
Skills And Specializations
Useful skills include advising customers on crafts, ordering supplies, negotiating buying conditions, setting sales goals, supervising displays and managing theft prevention. Specializations may follow product areas such as artists materials, sewing equipment, ceramics supplies or online shop orders.
Salary Context
Pay context is shaped by store turnover, staff responsibility, budget size, purchasing authority, promotional sales work and whether the manager also handles administration or online orders.
Career Paths
Career paths can move from sales assistant or department lead to shop manager, multi-store support, buying, visual merchandising, craft product training or independent retail ownership.
Good To Know
Good adverts name the craft categories, stock system, supplier duties and team size. Check whether the role includes procurement, web orders, pricing strategy, store security, licenses or hands-on customer demonstrations.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for craft shop management, not official labour-market statistics or salary 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.
Retail sale of other new goods
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include telecommunication equipment shop manager, photography shop manager and domestic appliances shop manager.
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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
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O*NET relationships: 1
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
41-1011.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
The official mapping connects this O*NET occupation to more than one exact ESCO occupation.
The official mapping connects this O*NET occupation to many ESCO occupations.
Source and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
47.78Retail sale of other new goods
Alternative labels
Occupation group
shop manager (1420.4)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b66eb697-e65d-4bbb-b51c-d847f6875f1a |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 1420.4.15 |
| ISCO group | 1420 |
| Concept type | Occupation |