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Overview
This work focuses on clerical sales support: compiling data, checking customer invoices, preparing reports and helping sales plans or sales activities stay organized.
In job descriptions, look for sales reports, customer invoices, accounting documents, office routines, sales records, customer service surveys, sales analysis and coordination with other departments.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Sales support assistants usually work inside sales, finance or operations teams. The work turns sales activity into usable records: invoices checked, data compiled, reports prepared and routine office tasks completed on time.
Skills and specializations
Useful strengths include accurate records, invoice checks, sales reporting, office routines, customer-service awareness and the ability to follow up missing information without slowing sales work.
Salary context
Salary context depends on the volume of transactions, accounting responsibility, sales-analysis tasks, customer contact, reporting deadlines and whether the role supports one team or several departments. This guide does not provide salary amounts.
Career paths
Career paths can move toward sales operations, account administration, customer service coordination, sales analysis, office management or finance administration, especially with strong reporting habits.
Good to know
Check whether vacancies emphasize invoice verification, sales reports, customer records, marketing plans, mail handling or department reporting. Those details show whether the job is mainly clerical, analytical or customer-facing.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific 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.
Office administrative and support activities
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include billing clerk and back office specialist.
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
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O*NET relationships: 1
Order Clerks
43-4151.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
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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.
82.1Office administrative and support activities
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Accounting and bookkeeping clerks (4311)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/5c1eba1e-7820-4287-9746-4c5906320100 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 4311.2 |
| ISCO group | 4311 |
| Concept type | Occupation |