bookshop manager
Bookshop managers assume responsibility for activities and staff in this specialised store.
bookshop manager bookshop managers assume responsibility for activities and staff in this specialised store. 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 publishing industry, sales activities, types of literature genres, employment law, study sales levels of products.
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 bookshop manager, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
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
Knowledge you'll build
- Customer and Personal Service
- Administration and Management
- English Language
- Personnel and Human Resources
- Economics and Accounting
- Sales and Marketing
- Mathematics
- Education and Training
What you'd actually do
- Monitor sales staff performance to ensure that goals are met.
- Provide staff with assistance in performing difficult or complicated duties.
- Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or performing specific services.
- Listen to and resolve customer complaints regarding services, products, or personnel.
- Keep records pertaining to purchases, sales, and requisitions.
- Hire, train, and evaluate personnel.
Tools & technology you'd use
Frequently asked questions
What does bookshop manager do?
Bookshop managers assume responsibility for activities and staff in this specialised store.
What skills does bookshop manager need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include publishing industry, sales activities, types of literature genres, employment law, 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 bookshop manager?
Our AI-durability model gives bookshop 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.