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Marketing Associate

Altom Transport Open · verified Sep 24, 2026
On-site Chicago Full-time Junior General Marketing

At a glance

Entry-level General Marketing role at Altom Transport. Chicago · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $48,450–$57,500.

Estimated pay

Altom Transport has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.

$48,450 – $57,500
What the middle half of entry-level general marketing roles in Chicago paid, among postings that did state a salary.
Worked out from 5 postings that stated pay, median $52,000. Last updated Sep 16, 2026.
RoleGeneral Marketing
SeniorityJunior
LocationChicago
WorkplaceOn-site
EmploymentFull-time
PostedSep 10, 2026 · 2w ago
Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • You'll research prospects, markets, facilities, and transport opportunities to uncover growth leads
  • You'll assess customer needs, equipment, pricing, capacity, and profitability to shape workable solutions
  • You'll prepare outreach, proposals, reports, and opportunity summaries for prospective customers
  • You'll coordinate new-customer onboarding with operations, safety, sales, and other departments
  • You'll maintain customer, lane, pricing, and operational records while answering customer questions

What you bring

  • You communicate clearly, build relationships, and act professionally with customers and industry partners
  • You bring curiosity, initiative, practical problem-solving, and comfort with data and spreadsheets
  • You stay organized, follow through, manage competing priorities, and collaborate across departments
  • You have working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint
  • You bring transportation experience or relevant exposure to logistics, sales, service, operations, pricing, analytics, or business development

Who this fits

This suits someone who enjoys combining customer interaction with analysis, thoughtful questions, and practical problem-solving. You'll work onsite in Chicago, collaborate across departments, and receive paid training, with room for early-career or career-changing applicants. A bachelor's degree is preferred, while equivalent education, training, transferable skills, or relevant experience may also be considered.

From the employer

Build or Advance Your Career in Transportation, Strategic Growth and Marketing

Altom Transport is seeking a curious, analytical, and relationship-driven Strategic Growth Associate to help identify new business opportunities, support customers, and develop practical transportation solutions.

Seeking someone who has experience in inside sales, business development, customer service, logistics, account management, or analytics. Previous transportation experience is needed.

You will work directly with the Director of Strategic Growth and Marketing while collaborating with operations, safety, sales, and other departments. You will learn how customer needs, equipment capabilities, pricing, capacity, and profitability come together and help turn that information into lasting customer partnerships.

Transportation is like solving a constantly changing puzzle. Every opportunity involves different products, locations, schedules, equipment requirements, and customer expectations. In this position, you will help bring those pieces together to develop solutions that work for both our customers and our operations.

What You’ll Do

  • Research prospective customers, markets, facilities, and transportation opportunities.
  • Support lead generation and conduct professional outreach to prospective customers.
  • Build relationships with customers, prospects, and industry partners.
  • Gather information about customer products, facilities, shipping volumes, schedules, and transportation requirements.
  • Learn Altom Transport’s equipment, services, and operational capabilities.
  • Evaluate whether customer opportunities are a good fit for our equipment and operations.
  • Contribute to lane analysis, pricing, capacity planning, and profitability reviews.
  • Forecast customer volumes and potential capacity needs.
  • Prepare customer proposals, reports, presentations, spreadsheets, and opportunity summaries.
  • Coordinate new-customer onboarding with operations, safety, sales, and other departments.
  • Maintain accurate and organized customer, lane, pricing, and operational information.
  • Respond to customer questions and help provide a dependable, positive experience.
  • Participate in customer meetings, trade shows, marketing activities, and industry events.
  • Identify information and opportunities that can help customers and internal teams operate more effectively.
  • Take on greater responsibility as your knowledge of the business grows.

Requirements

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
  • Curiosity, initiative, and a willingness to learn.
  • Analytical thinking and practical problem-solving abilities.
  • Strong organization, follow-through, and attention to detail.
  • Comfort working with numbers, spreadsheets, and business information.
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across departments.
  • Professionalism when communicating with customers and industry partners.
  • A bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, supply chain, logistics, analytics, communications, or a related field is preferred. An equivalent combination of education, training, transferable skills, and relevant experience will also be considered.
  • Experience in transportation, logistics, inside sales, customer service, account management, operations, pricing, analytics, or business development is helpful—but not required.

A Role for Different Experience Levels

  • If you are beginning your career or changing industries, this position offers paid training and hands-on exposure to customer development, transportation operations, pricing, analytics, and marketing.
  • If you already have relevant experience, you will have the opportunity to apply your skills to customer development, pricing analysis, relationship management, and strategic growth initiatives.
  • You may be a great fit if you enjoy working with both people and data, asking thoughtful questions, solving changing problems, and turning detailed information into practical business solutions.

Benefits

Why Join Altom Transport?

From day one, you will contribute to customer development, pricing, onboarding, and business-growth decisions. You will work closely with company leadership while developing or expanding your expertise across several areas of the transportation industry.

Altom Transport is a stable, family-owned company that has served customers since 1948. This role can support continued growth in inside sales, strategic growth, account management, customer relations, transportation operations, pricing, marketing, or business analytics.

Why Join Altom Transport?

From day one, you will contribute to customer development, pricing, onboarding, and business-growth decisions. You will work closely with company leadership while developing or expanding your expertise across several areas of the transportation industry.

Altom Transport is a stable, family-owned company that has served customers since 1948. This role can support continued growth in inside sales, strategic growth, account management, customer relations, transportation operations, pricing, marketing, or business analytics.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Weekly pay
  • Paid training
  • 401(k) company match beginning on day one
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield medical coverage
  • Vision and dental coverage
  • Health Savings Account contributions
  • Paid vacation, paid holidays, and paid time off
  • Life insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability options
  • Stability with a family-owned company in business since 1948

Apply Today

If this position interests you but you do not meet every listed qualification, we still encourage you to apply. We value potential, transferable skills, relevant experience, and a genuine willingness to learn.

Altom Transport is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law.

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