Senior Management - Trade, Broadcasting, and Other Services
Job description
These individuals direct companies in the commercial and broadcasting sectors. They set the direction, often in collaboration with a board of directors. They work in:
- Broadcasting establishments
- Media companies
- Wholesale and retail businesses
- Hotels
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Define the company’s mission and strategic orientations.
- Set up the organization’s main services.
- Manage material, human, and financial resources.
- Establish administrative and financial controls.
- Prepare and approve promotional campaigns.
- Approve the human resources management plan.
- Hire directors and delegate the necessary authority to them.
- Represent the organization.
Advancement and mobility
- Possibility of specialization by acquiring experience or specific university or college training.
- These individuals specialize in such areas as finance, marketing, human resources, and sales.
- Mobility exists among senior management professions.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Total jobs for 2023
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3,500
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Gender distribution
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Job types
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Yearly wage
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Other characteristics
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Training and requirements
Formation
Numerous training and study programs lead to managerial or executive positions.
Also required
- University or college degree or diploma in:
- Business Administration
- Finance
- A discipline related to the services required
Sometimes required
- Several years of experience as a middle manager in the commercial, broadcasting, and other services sectors are usually required.
- Senior managers in the financial sector usually require a professional accounting designation.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Judgment and decision-making
- Oral expression
- Critical thought
- Solving complex problems
- Coordination
- Human resource management
- Social perception
- System analysis
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Result evaluation
- Systems evaluation
- Financial resource management
- Negotiation
- Persuasion
- Information processing
- Active learning
- Written expression
- Time management
- Material resource management
- Mathematics
- Operation analysis
- Teaching
- Service oriented
- Learning strategies
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Written comprehension
- Speech clarity
- Written expression
- Deductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Inductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Near vision
- Information organization
- Classification
- Mathematical reasoning
- Processing flexibility
- Basic numeracy
- Perception speed
- Information processing speed
- Visualization
- Selective attention
- Memorization
- Time sharing
- Distance vision
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Leadership
- Focussed on results
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Capacity to adapt
- Professional ambition
- Capacity to delegate
- Knowledge of telecommunications
- Strategic sense
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work in sales or client service
- Work in the arts, culture, music, or leisure
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 00014
Senior managers - trade, broadcasting and other services
Job titles
- Chief executive officer (ceo) - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Executive director - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Sales general manager - trade, broadcasting and other services
- President and general manager - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Deputy chief executive officer (ceo) - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Travel agency chief executive officer (ceo)
- Chief operating officer - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Chief learning officer - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Chief diversity officer - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Chief privacy officer - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Operations manager - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Chief financial officer (cfo) - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Professional sports club chief financial officer (cfo)
- Chief sustainability officer - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Restaurant chain corporate controller
- Corporate controller - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Laundry and dry cleaning general manager
- Hotel general manager
- Casino general manager
- Funeral services general manager
- Cleaning service general manager
- Radio station general manager
- Wholesaler - broadcasting
- President and director - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Chairman/woman - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Retail establishment president
- Department store president
- Broadcasting corporation president
- Executive vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Executive vice-president - metal and metal products wholesaler
- Vice-president and general sales manager - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Regional vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Hotel chain regional vice-president
- Engineering vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Engineering vice-president - television broadcasting services
- Finance vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Finance vice-president - food wholesaling
- Finance and administration vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Sustainability vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Operations vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Operations vice-president - radio broadcasting services
- Planning vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Compensation vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Corporate social responsibility vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Human resources vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Human resources and organizational development vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Support services vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Information systems vice president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Sales vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Sales and advertising vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Marketing vice-president - grocery store chain
- Marketing vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
- Personnel vice-president - trade, broadcasting and other services
Skill type
Management
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