What are the management careers?

What the word "management" covers

In the strict sense, management is concerned with steering the teams, projects and strategy of an organisation. Managing does not mean overseeing a single function: it means understanding several of a company's professions at the same time, in order to weigh up options and make the right decisions.

This steering skill does not always imply a line-management relationship, which explains why manager careers cover such different realities depending on the organisation. A sales engineer, for example, carries a complex commercial project by steering teams they do not directly manage, whereas a team manager organises the activity of a group of team members and coordinates their results on a daily basis. These two examples show the full breadth of the word "management", which is therefore not limited to senior management roles: it refers just as much to project management as to business development, human resources, management control or supply chain.

At Excelia Business School, a Bac+5 programme in management prepares you precisely for these supervisory roles, before opening the way, with experience, to broader responsibilities.

The main families of management careers

Excelia Business School's management programmes lead to very different careers, which fall into several main families. Each leads to clearly identified roles, which grow in responsibility with your level of qualification and experience.

• Sales and customer relations: account manager or commercial development officer, the single point of contact for a portfolio of clients they help grow over the long term
• Finance and banking: bank adviser at Bac+3, business account manager at Bac+5, two careers detailed in our page on finance careers that are hiring
• Marketing: our overview of marketing careers presents these careers, including marketing manager and product manager
• Digital: technology put at the service of a company's decisions, between digital marketing and data-driven performance steering. The details are in our page on the most promising digital careers
• Human resources: recruitment officer or training manager, two careers serving teams
• Purchasing and supply chain: purchasing assistant at Bac+3, supply chain manager at Bac+5, two careers that safeguard logistics performance
• CSR: the CSR officer, a cross-cutting management career in its own right, one of the paths presented in our page on CSR and sustainable development careers

To go further, you can identify in a few minutes the family of management careers that suits you.

From your first job to senior management roles

Management roles evolve above all with your level of qualification and the experience gained in the field. At Bac+3, graduates of the Bachelor in Business first take up operational and sales roles, for example commercial development officer or marketing assistant, which give a first concrete experience of the field.

At Bac+5, graduates of the Master in Management (Programme Grande École) or of a Master of Science (MSc) gain access to more strategic roles, such as sales manager or consultant. With experience, these career paths can then lead to senior management roles, strategic steering or support for the transformation of organisations.

To specialise further, the Master of Science (MSc) programmes at Excelia Business School are organised by career area, each area bringing together several programmes that allow you to deepen one of these families.