What is the difference between the title of Sales Representative and Sales Executive?

Sales representative: is a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise or services, as to customers in a store or customers who are visited. The primary function of professional sales is to generate and to close leads, educate prospects, fill needs and satisfy wants of consumers appropriately, and therefore turn potential customers into actual paying customers. A sales executive has a role more geared towards the administration part of sales and has the function of carrying out of plans or orders. Basically, the sales executive is usually the immediate supervisor of the sales representative.

the sales rep works for the business

the Sales  Executive is a manager or VP ... ,manages and delegates his/her sales representatives   

Difference in the label and not in duties

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Executive implies you can make a decision. Representative implies you need to ask for permission.

I agree with the response of Muhammad Najm

 

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  Sales Representative Salesperson or agent (whether or not under the direct control of a firm) authorized to solicit business for a firm, and compensated usually through a commission or salary, or a combination of both       Sales Executive A person  employeed in a company or department in charge of sales or Is an employee of a company who is responsible for selling the company's goods and services to customers, it may refer to a person who makes sales over the phone, assists customers with selections in a store or even sells door-to-door              

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Fully agree with your answer my dear colleague

I think the main difference lies on the direct and indirect way of execution of sale of the products...

Representative is the one who represents the indirectly to execute the sale of the product whereas the executive is the one who does the job of selling the product direct to the customer. My 2 cents. Thanks.

Thank you for the invitation and I agree with the experts answers

The difference between the terms are almost non existent today and from an employee view point he should look at the detailed JD. for example in many companies there is almost no difference  in JD between a Sr. Sales Executive and Assistant Sales Manager.

My understanding is that in trading companies, originally The Sales Representatives referred to Principal Company's salesperson and salesman referred to the trading company's sales person. but with time and increased direct door to door selling, general public started looking down on sales representative and then emerged the new generation terminology sales executive.

 

today particularly in pharmaceutical industry the term sales rep/ medical rep is widely used.