commercial director
Commercial directors are responsible for the income generation for the commercial sector of their company. They manage several commercial tasks such as setting targets, overseeing the development of products, planning and developing selling efforts, managing sales agents, and determining product prices.
commercial director commercial directors are responsible for the income generation for the commercial sector of their company. 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 risk management, project management, commercial law, product comprehension, customer relationship management.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £57,625 a year for Sales accounts and business development managers (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £43,049 to £79,598 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 3556). 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 commercial director, 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
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Frequently asked questions
What does commercial director do?
Commercial directors are responsible for the income generation for the commercial sector of their company. They manage several commercial tasks such as setting targets, overseeing the development of products, planning and developing selling efforts, managing sales agents, and determining product prices.
What skills does commercial director need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include risk management, project management, commercial law, product comprehension, customer relationship management, manage sales teams. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace commercial director?
Our AI-durability model gives commercial director 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.