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2.2 KiB

Competences — ICT business development manager

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/57b459d4-655c-4053-b189-3c249ce33faf).

Essential

  • analyse business requirements (skill/competence)
  • business ICT systems (knowledge)
  • business processes (knowledge)
  • business strategy concepts (knowledge)
  • collect customer feedback on applications (skill/competence)
  • decision support systems (knowledge)
  • give live presentation (skill/competence)
  • ICT market (knowledge)
  • identify new business opportunities (skill/competence)
  • innovate in ICT (skill/competence)
  • innovation processes (knowledge)
  • interpret current data (skill/competence)
  • monitor technology trends (skill/competence)
  • perform business analysis (skill/competence)
  • perform market research (skill/competence)
  • seek innovation in current practices (skill/competence)

Optional

  • build business relationships (skill/competence)
  • business intelligence (knowledge)
  • business process modelling (knowledge)
  • business requirements techniques (knowledge)
  • communicate with customers (skill/competence)
  • coordinate technological activities (skill/competence)
  • crowdsourcing strategy (knowledge)
  • ICT capacity planning strategies (knowledge)
  • information extraction (knowledge)
  • insourcing strategy (knowledge)
  • investment analysis (knowledge)
  • manage contracts (skill/competence)
  • outsourcing strategy (knowledge)
  • sales argumentation (knowledge)
  • use different communication channels (skill/competence)
  • visual presentation techniques (knowledge)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 24 ads, as of 2026-07-12)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

Hard skills

  • business development — 79 %
  • capture management — 17 %
  • consultative selling — 17 %
  • market analysis — 17 %
  • sales — 17 %

Responsibilities

  • pipeline management — 42 %
  • relationship building — 29 %
  • opportunity identification — 29 %
  • customer engagement — 21 %