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In home services, field coaching and recruiting pipeline ownership often top the list. ## The full list of responsibilities **Recruiting.** Own the applicant pipeline. Know the conversion rate from applicant to interview to hire. **Onboarding.** A structured 30-60-90 day plan that produces a productive rep by day 90. **Training.** Weekly team training. Monthly individual skill reviews. **Coaching.** Weekly 1:1s. Ride-alongs for field teams. Call review for inside teams. **Performance tracking.** Daily dashboards. Weekly team reviews. Monthly QBRs. **Pipeline management.** Deal-level reviews. Stuck deal unsticking. Next-step ownership. **Forecasting.** Rep commits plus weighted pipeline. Quarterly vs monthly views. **Compensation.** Clear plans. On-time payouts. Dispute resolution. **Culture.** Recognition. Promotion paths. Reasonable working conditions. **Reporting.** To their own leadership. Often to operations, finance, and HR. Each of these could be a separate job. Great managers batch and systematize. ## The weekly cadence that works **Monday.** Team huddle. Set focus metric. Review weekend activity. One training topic. **Tuesday to Thursday.** Field ride-alongs, call reviews, deal interventions, recruiting interviews. **Friday.** Team debrief. Top performer recognition. Individual 1:1s as needed. **Weekend.** Light touch. Respond to rep texts. Prep for Monday. A manager running this cadence covers most of the responsibilities above in 50 hours per week. ## Common gaps in sales manager responsibility lists **Recruiting.** Too many managers treat recruiting as HR's job. It is not. Revenue growth is hire-gated, which means it is manager-gated. **Training.** Training after onboarding often falls off. The best managers run weekly team training without fail. **Culture.** When engagement drops, performance drops. Managers who ignore culture eventually lose their best reps. ## What to delegate **Admin.** Use software to eliminate manual report building. **Scheduling.** Automated calendar tools save 3 to 5 hours per week. **Commission calculations.** Let a platform do the math. Approve the numbers. ## RepCard's Take > "RepCard covers every major manager responsibility inside one Sales Operating System. Recruiting pipelines, training modules, coaching workflows, pipeline dashboards, forecasts, and commission calculations all live in one platform. Managers stop glue-coding tools and start leading teams." — RepCard Team ## Related terms and pages [Sales manager](/glossary/sales-manager)[Sales manager software](/glossary/sales-manager-software)[Field sales management](/glossary/field-sales-management)[Sales management software](/glossary/sales-management-software)[Sales management tools](/glossary/sales-management-tools) [Rep retention](/glossary/rep-retention)[Field sales recruiting funnel](/glossary/field-sales-recruiting-funnel)[See the Sales Operating System](/sos)[Blog: Recruit, ramp, retain playbook](/blog/recruit-ramp-retain-playbook) ## Sources - [Harvard Business Review, The Sales Leader's Guide](https://hbr.org/topic/sales) - [Bureau of Labor Statistics, Sales Managers](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/sales-managers.htm) - [LinkedIn State of Sales](https://business.linkedin.com/sales-solutions) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is the most important responsibility of a sales manager? 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