Launch Your Career

Industrial distribution can send you on the path to career options you never dreamed of.  Once you've started, the sky is the limit!  With earlier generations retiring, the North American industrial distribution market will have more than 180,000 job openings annually.

Industrial distribution gives you career choices in sales, marketing, finance, information technology and many other fields. 

On any given day, if you worked for an industrial distributor, you could:

• Help customers solve their business challenges.
• Introduce new products and describe how they work.
• Demonstrate why a customer should use a particular product.
• Manage accounts within a specific part of the country or the world.
• Travel, meet with customers and build relationships.
• Make presentations and speak to groups of people about products and services.
• Purchase and inventory products.

The fast-paced industrial distribution industry needs people like you who are smart, talented and passionate.

Learn more about starting salaries in industrial distribution. 

Find out what industrial distributors do in a typical day on the job.
Research industry employers.
Learn about training programs that give you a leg up on the competition.