Operations and sales
General and Operations Manager in Buffalo
58 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 26 employers · largest 19% of it
What employers actually ask for
Credentials named in the 58 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.
- Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution10%6 of 58 postingsAccredited institution →
Lower signal for this role
Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.
- PMPProject Management Institute2%
- Master's DegreeAccredited institution3%2 of 58 postingsAccredited institution →
- ServSafe Food Protection ManagerNational Restaurant Association3%
What the official taxonomy says
O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.
- High school diploma or equivalent29%
- Bachelor’s degree27%
- Some college, no degree22%
Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
O*NET 11-1021.00 · pulled 2026-10-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100
What it pays
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.
Who was hiring
Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.
City of New York · HelloFresh · Anthropic · Duolingo · Blink Health · Charlie Health · Convene · Equinox · Fanatics Commerce · Figma · Insomnia Cookies · Lyft · Ramp · Robinhood · Scale AI · SoFi · Sweetgreen · Via · Brilla Public Charter Schools · DIG · Gusto · Reddit · Ridgeline · Shields Health Solutions · Toast · Zocdoc
The same role elsewhere
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