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meat and meat products shop manager

Meat and meat products shop managers assume responsibility for activities and staff in specialised shops.

meat and meat products shop manager meat and meat products shop managers assume responsibility for activities and staff in specialised shops. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include sales activities, employment law, meat industry, manufacture ingredients, study sales levels of products.

AI exposure
5.0/10
automation risk

Pay in the UK

UK: median £38,447 a year for Managers and directors in retail and wholesale (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)

Middle half of full-time jobs: £30,000 to £52,498 a year

UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 1150). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)

Pay in India (occupation group)

Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Managers” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only meat and meat products shop manager, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.

Urban India
₹55,360 a month
Rural India
₹31,701 a month
All India
₹50,408 a month

Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 1. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report

Top skills

sales activities employment law meat industry manufacture ingredients study sales levels of products set up pricing strategies order supplies manage budgets maintain relationship with customers manage staff

Knowledge you'll build

  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Administration and Management
  • Sales and Marketing
  • English Language
  • Education and Training
  • Personnel and Human Resources
  • Computers and Electronics
  • Mathematics

What you'd actually do

  • Provide customer service by greeting and assisting customers and responding to customer inquiries and complaints.
  • Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or in performing services for customers.
  • Examine merchandise to ensure that it is correctly priced and displayed and that it functions as advertised.
  • Monitor sales activities to ensure that customers receive satisfactory service and quality goods.
  • Instruct staff on how to handle difficult and complicated sales.
  • Assign employees to specific duties.

Tools & technology you'd use

Microsoft Office software hot Adobe Acrobat hot Adobe Illustrator hot Adobe InDesign hot Adobe Photoshop hot Apple Safari hot Autodesk Revit hot Facebook hot Google Analytics hot Google Docs hot IBM SPSS Statistics hot Kronos Workforce Timekeeper hot

Frequently asked questions

What does meat and meat products shop manager do?

Meat and meat products shop managers assume responsibility for activities and staff in specialised shops.

What skills does meat and meat products shop manager need?

The most in-demand skills for this role include sales activities, employment law, meat industry, manufacture ingredients, study sales levels of products, set up pricing strategies. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Will AI replace meat and meat products shop manager?

Our AI-durability model gives meat and meat products shop manager a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.

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