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Career moves · 231,145 postings · 163 markets · 2026-07-16

Where can your career go next?

Search the role you're in. We count what employers ask for across 231,145 active postings, then show you the markets one step away: how big each one is, and exactly which skills you'd need to add.

What this is and isn't

Markets sit close together when employers on both sides ask for the same skills, measured across 350 normalized skills. This is not a record of people moving between them. That would need career histories we don't have. A close market also isn't automatically a good move. Skills counted are the ones postings list explicitly, so every figure is a floor.

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Operations Manager

403 open jobs·216 employers

10 markets are one step away

These are the 10 careers with the highest skill overlap with Operations Manager. Bigger circles mean more openings; careers closer to the center require fewer new skills.

Among nearby careers, Project Manager has the most openings (833), while Team Lead requires the fewest new skills.

#1 closest · Team Lead · 179 openings · Close#2 closest · Chief Of Staff · 186 openings · Close#3 closest · Area Manager · 145 openings · Close#4 closest · Project Manager · 833 openings · Moderate change#5 closest · Executive Director · 173 openings · Moderate change#6 closest · Finance Manager · 288 openings · Moderate change#7 closest · Quality Engineer · 110 openings · Moderate change#8 closest · Supply Chain Manager · 142 openings · Moderate change#9 closest · HR Business Partner · 144 openings · Moderate change#10 closest · Manufacturing Engineer · 182 openings · Moderate change

Skill transition

How much each market's required skills differ from your
current role.

  • Close3
  • Moderate change7

Larger circles = more open jobs, from 110 to 833 here.

Tap a market to put it at the center.

The 10 markets closest to Operations Manager, ranked by how much their skills overlap with your current role. Distance from the center shows how different the required skills are, closer is a smaller change. Color is the transition band; circle size is open jobs.

  • Team Lead

    from Operations Manager

    Strong match

    Close

    Among the 3 closest moves from Operations Manager.

    179

    openings in Team Lead

    5

    skills you already have

    6

    skills to learn

    2

    skills to strengthen

    You already have

    Operations ManagerTeam Leadshare of postings

    continuous improvement

    81%34%

    logistics

    25%29%

    performance management

    23%26%

    process improvement

    27%17%

    six sigma

    14%3%

    You'll need to learn

    • excelasked for in 45% of Team Lead postings
    • coachingasked for in 41% of Team Lead postings
    • microsoft officeasked for in 33% of Team Lead postings
    • customer successasked for in 18% of Team Lead postings
    • total rewardsasked for in 15% of Team Lead postings
    • data entryasked for in 15% of Team Lead postings

    Strengthen what you have

    • logistics25% → 29%
    • performance management23% → 26%

    How much work is out there

    Operations Manager
    403
    Team Lead
    179

    This market has 2.3x fewer postings than yours.

    Smaller than the market you're in, but 5 of the skills it asks for are ones you already have.

    What to do next

    1. 1 · Learn

      excel

      Asked for in 45% of Team Lead postings, and 5 other new skills.

    2. 2 · Strengthen

      logistics

      25% of Operations Manager postings ask for it, against 29% of Team Lead.

    3. 3 · Look at the work

      179 Team Lead postings

      Observed active in this snapshot.

    403 Operations Manager postings · 179 Team Lead postings · 350 normalized skills · snapshot 2026-07-16

Methodology

What is this based on?

231,145 live job postings from 28,870 employers across 163 markets, captured 2026-07-16. Skills come from each posting's stated requirements.

How is distance calculated?

Each market becomes a profile of the skills its postings request, and markets are compared by how much those profiles overlap (an IDF-weighted cosine similarity, so skills that appear in almost every role count for less). The closest markets sit nearest the center, grouped into five bands from Very close to Different field.

What do the skill lists mean?

Shared skills are the ones both roles commonly ask for. Skills to learn are the ones the target market asks for that your current role doesn't, ranked by how much more often they come up.

What isn't included?

Years of experience, seniority, salary, portfolio or certification requirements, or how competitive a role is to land. Skill overlap is one axis of a move, not the whole picture.

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