About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Sales (Industrial & Municipal Water/Wastewater Treatment).

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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What You’ll Do

This entry-level Associate Sales Manager role is a structured 6–12 month sales development program designed to prepare high-potential candidates for a future Sales Manager / territory owner role. You will work with experienced sales professionals, applications and proposal engineers, and cross-functional teams to learn products, processes, and consultative selling for industrial and municipal water/wastewater filtration solutions.

• Support Regional Sales Managers on customer visits, plant tours, and technical presentations
• Participate in customer discovery meetings and site evaluations
• Assist with opportunity development, follow-up, and pipeline tracking
• Support strategic account planning and prospect research
• Help prepare budgetary proposals, quotations, and learn system sizing and solution development
• Support trade show activities and industry events
• Maintain customer and opportunity information in CRM and assist with forecasting
• Other duties as assigned to develop commercial and technical competence

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Who You Are (Qualifications)

The ideal candidate will be coachable, curious, and motivated to build a long-term career in industrial capital equipment sales.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemistry, or related field
• Strong presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Mechanical/technical aptitude and comfort learning complex industrial processes
• Interest in consultative selling and building customer relationships
• Initiative and willingness to prospect for new business
• Experience with industrial customers and CRM systems preferred
• Comfortable with domestic travel (approx. 10–40%)
• Desire to progress into a territory sales role after the development program

Don’t meet every requirement? If you bring ownership, curiosity, and teamwork, we encourage you to apply.

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What We Offer

Confidential Client provides a collaborative environment focused on sustainability and innovation in water and wastewater treatment. Benefits for full-time employees include:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Parental leave
• Company-paid life insurance and short/long-term disability
• 11 paid holidays
• Three weeks PTO per year (prorated) + roll-over of unused hours
• Sixteen personal hours (first-year prorated)
• Company-paid days off between Christmas Eve and New Year’s
• Annual incentive plans tied to company profit
• Career development and clear progression from the sales development program into field territory responsibilities

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Location & Travel

• Based in Mokena, IL (hybrid schedule)
• Domestic travel required (approx. 10–40%)

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

If you have questions about how your data is used, please contact us directly.