Sales and Marketing (Greece)

Overview

Graduates from many disciplines often start their career in a sales path, which many continue to pursue. The majority of these sales roles lack any formal education in the management of the sales effort and the necessary set of values that a formal educational background establishes.

Key Features

• These sales representatives are more prone to adopt the aggressive selling style many companies adopt to meet their sales objectives, usually at the expense of building good relations with the customer base and generating mutual value and benefits. This lack of a strong customer orientation within the sales team often has an adverse impact on the company’s long-term performance.

• Simultaneously, the sales profession is being impacted by the rise of digitisation – e-commerce and data analysis is increasingly demanded of the sales workforce. The volume of data now available can give insights into markets that only 10 years ago would have seemed impossible. However, the amount of data available can prove overwhelming so an understanding of the difference between useful and superfluous data and the tools to apply it are now a necessity for sales professionals.
• In response, the University of Strathclyde Business School, in partnership with the Hellenic Institute of Sales in Greece, has designed a specialised masters degree in Sales and Marketing (Greece) with a digital focus and a stakeholder-centric nature to enhance management knowledge and leadership capabilities of sales professional roles.