What You'll Do

  • Participate in online forums or conferences to stay abreast of online retailing trends, techniques, or security threats.
  • Upload digital media, such as photos, video, or scanned images to online storefront, auction sites, or other shopping Web sites.
  • Order or purchase merchandise to maintain optimal inventory levels.
  • Maintain inventory of shipping supplies, such as boxes, labels, tape, bubble wrap, loose packing materials, or tape guns.
  • Integrate online retailing strategy with physical or catalogue retailing operations.
  • Determine and set product prices.
  • Disclose merchant information and terms and policies of transactions in online or offline materials.
  • Deliver e-mail confirmation of completed transactions and shipment.
  • Create, manage, or automate orders or invoices, using order management or invoicing software.
  • Create or maintain database of customer accounts.

Essential Skills

Reading Comprehension 3.62/5
Active Listening 3.5/5
Speaking 3.5/5
Critical Thinking 3.5/5
Writing 3.38/5
Persuasion 3.38/5
Service Orientation 3.38/5
Judgment and Decision Making 3.25/5
Monitoring 3.12/5
Social Perceptiveness 3.12/5
Negotiation 3.12/5
Mathematics 3.0/5

Career Fit Overview

Use this summary to understand the kind of profile this role rewards. It helps you judge whether this career looks like a stronger match than your current role, a nearby move worth exploring, or a broader path to compare more seriously.

Top passions

  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.
  • Leader: Taking charge and moving ideas forward motivates you.
  • Helper: Supporting people and making a difference matters to you.

Common styles

Dependability, Attention to Detail, Achievement Orientation, Integrity, Adaptability

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Written Comprehension 3.75/5
Oral Expression 3.5/5
Written Expression 3.5/5
Problem Sensitivity 3.5/5
Oral Comprehension 3.38/5
Deductive Reasoning 3.38/5
Near Vision 3.38/5
Speech Recognition 3.38/5

Technologies & Tools

Adobe Dreamweaver Adobe Photoshop AJAX Apache Solr Apache Struts Apple macOS Bing Ads Bing for Power BI Blogging software C# CCBill Content management systems CMS Drupal Dynamic hypertext markup language DHTML e-check software Enterprise JavaBeans Extensible hypertext markup language XHTML Extensible markup language XML Facebook Financial accounting software

Work Environment & Strengths

Common Strengths for This Career

  • Dependability (High importance: 4.61/5)
  • Attention to Detail (High importance: 4.48/5)
  • Achievement Orientation (High importance: 4.32/5)
  • Integrity (High importance: 4.31/5)
  • Adaptability (High importance: 4.19/5)

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How to Become One

Most employers require a bachelor's degree in a relevant field. Some positions may also require experience through internships, co-ops, or entry-level work to strengthen your candidacy.

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Also Known As

This career is known by many different job titles across industries. Here are all the variations:

E-Commerce Account Manager E-Commerce Administrator E-Commerce Analyst E-Commerce Assistant E-Commerce Associate E-Commerce Business Analyst E-Commerce Business Channel Specialist E-Commerce Clerk E-Commerce Coordinator E-Commerce Developer E-Commerce Manager E-Commerce Marketing Manager E-Commerce Merchandiser E-Commerce Merchant E-Commerce Operations Manager E-Commerce Personal Shopper E-Commerce Product Manager E-Commerce Project Manager E-Commerce Retailer E-Commerce Sales Analyst E-Commerce Sales Associate E-Commerce Sales Clerk E-Commerce Sales Coordinator E-Commerce Sales Manager E-Commerce Sales Product Manager E-Commerce Sales Specialist E-Commerce Specialist E-Commerce Supervisor E-Merchant E-tailer Fulfillment Associate Internet Merchant Internet Retailer Merchandiser Online Merchant Online Retailer Online Services Manager Personal Shopper Retail E-Commerce Sales Associate Sales Associate Store E-Commerce Supervisor Transaction Coordinator Web Merchant Web Retailer

Career Fit FAQs

Is this career a good fit for me

This page shows the role itself. To see personal fit, use the assessment to compare your interests, motivations, and strengths against this career and against the role you are in now.

Can this help if I want to stay in my field

Yes. Many people use career pages like this to compare nearby roles in the same field and see whether they need a full switch or a better-fit version of the work they already know.

What should I compare first

Start with the daily tasks, the preparation level, and the work-style signals on this page. Then use the assessment to see whether this role looks like a stronger fit than your current role or just a different title.