Sales and Marketing Assistant
Milwaukee, WI
Full Time
Experienced
Milwaukee Cylinder
Sales and Marketing Assistant
Milwaukee, WI
Sales & Marketing Assistant
Build Knowledge. Gain Exposure. Grow Your Career.
Milwaukee Cylinder is looking for a curious, motivated Sales & Marketing Assistant who wants to learn how sales, marketing, and distribution work together in a manufacturing environment. This role is designed for someone who brings strong fundamentals, analytical thinking, and initiative, not years of experience.
You’ll gain hands-on exposure across the business while supporting growth initiatives and learning directly from company leadership. This position reports to the President and works closely with sales, customer service, engineering, and operations.
Why This Role Stands Out
Sales & Marketing Support
Required
This role is built to grow. As your knowledge and skills develop, opportunities may expand into sales support, marketing strategy, distributor development, or other growth-focused roles within the company.
Sales and Marketing Assistant
Milwaukee, WI
Sales & Marketing Assistant
Build Knowledge. Gain Exposure. Grow Your Career.
Milwaukee Cylinder is looking for a curious, motivated Sales & Marketing Assistant who wants to learn how sales, marketing, and distribution work together in a manufacturing environment. This role is designed for someone who brings strong fundamentals, analytical thinking, and initiative, not years of experience.
You’ll gain hands-on exposure across the business while supporting growth initiatives and learning directly from company leadership. This position reports to the President and works closely with sales, customer service, engineering, and operations.
Why This Role Stands Out
- Entry-level role focused on learning and skill development
- Broad exposure to B2B sales, marketing, and manufacturing
- Direct interaction with leadership and decision-making
- Opportunity to grow responsibility and career path over time
Sales & Marketing Support
- Assist with sales and marketing initiatives from planning through execution
- Help track progress, organize information, and support follow-up activity
- Learn how distributor-driven sales works in an industrial environment
- Support website updates, content coordination, and SEO efforts
- Assist with managing the company’s LinkedIn presence
- Track basic performance metrics and help summarize results
- Learn to create and maintain sales and quote reports
- Analyze trends by customer, distributor, and product
- Help turn data into insights that support sales decisions
- Help track inbound leads and assist with distributor assignment
- Maintain visibility into lead activity and outcomes
- Support communication that strengthens distributor engagement
- Assist with product launches and marketing materials
- Support distributor training, webinars, and outreach programs
- Gain exposure to market research and new growth initiatives
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Engineering Technology, or related field (or equivalent knowledge-based experience)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Interest in sales, marketing, and business analytics
- Comfort working with Excel and basic reporting tools
- Organized, self-motivated, and eager to learn
- This role requires strong ownership and initiative. While guidance is provided, much of the work is self-directed and requires learning on the fly and taking charge of outcomes
- Exposure to B2B, manufacturing, or industrial environments
- Familiarity with CRM systems, websites, or analytics tools
- Ability to create basic presentations or marketing materials
This role is built to grow. As your knowledge and skills develop, opportunities may expand into sales support, marketing strategy, distributor development, or other growth-focused roles within the company.
We Make it Easy
Founded in 1901, MRA is a nonprofit employer association that serves more than 4,000 employers, covering more than one million employees.
As one of the largest employer associations in the nation, MRA helps its member organizations thrive by offering the most comprehensive assortment of HR services, information, education, and resources to help build successful workplaces and a powerful workforce.
We partner with these companies working directly with their HR department and leadership to hire their talent. We are a direct line to the company, not an agency recruiter.
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