Three years ago he took this job. He now sits on a sales team where the lowest full-time earner made $170,940 last financial year.

He arrived with about two years of unremarkable sales experience and no idea what an excavator attachment was.

His first ten months were spent as a Sales Associate, learning how to turn our customer database into live sales opportunities. He then moved into our Sales Consultant role for around eight months, running and closing his own deals for the first time. Before his second year was out he had earned a seat on the Inbound Sales Specialist team, and he is still on it today.

That progression is what we are actually offering. This ad is for the first step of it.

The ceiling is not theoretical

These are the actual FY26 earnings across our full-time Inbound Sales Specialist team:

Lowest: $170,940

Median: $188,529

Average: $209,124

Highest: $296,054

Commissions are uncapped and paid monthly.

Those are Specialist earnings, not Associate earnings. We publish them because most sales employers talk about "great earning potential" and then go quiet when you ask for numbers. This is what the top of our floor made. It is what this role is built to lead to.

The three steps

Sales Associate. You learn to create chance. You work our database of previous customers and old quotes, reopen conversations, understand what has changed on their machines and their sites, and turn dormant records into live opportunities for the Specialist team to close. You are paid a commission on every one of those that closes. You are not managing a pipeline yet, and that is deliberate: opening and closing are two different skills, and we would rather you master one properly than fumble both at once.

Sales Consultant. You keep generating, and you start closing.



You take on a live portfolio of real sales opportunities and run them yourself, quoting, negotiating and closing on your own name. First role where you own a deal end to end.

Inbound Sales Specialist. The full flow. Hundreds of marketing-generated inbound enquiries a month, our largest opportunities, uncapped commission, and the earnings above.

Movement between the steps is driven by your numbers, not your tenure. Nobody here waits their turn.

What you will do day to day

Work our customer and quote database by phone, email and online channels

Re-engage previous customers and reopen old quotes

Understand what machines they run, what has changed and what they need next

Separate genuine buying intent from general interest

Build ongoing relationships across your allocated database

Create qualified opportunities and hand them to the Inbound Sales Specialist team

Keep accurate records of every conversation in the CRM

Own your monthly opportunity target

You will be on the phone most of the day. Everyone on this floor started there, including the people now earning at the top of it.

What we will teach you

Everything about the products, the customers, the CRM and the sales process. You do not need machinery, construction or excavator attachment experience, and you do not need a long sales history.

We take people with no sales background at all,



and people with one to two years who want to develop properly rather than be handed a target and left to work it out alone. You get structured training, a manager who coaches, and a floor full of people doing the job well enough to copy.

What we cannot teach is work ethic, curiosity and the willingness to pick the phone back up after someone says no.

Who does well here

People who want a sales career, not a job for the next six months

People who are organised enough to work a large database without losing track

People who follow up without being chased

People who take feedback and act on it the same day

People who are genuinely competitive and want their income tied to their results

People who can hold a real conversation with a tradesperson, an operator or a business owner

People comfortable working full-time from our Melbourne CBD office

Your background might be retail, hospitality, trades, call centre, customer service, university, or something else entirely. We have hired from all of them.

What we offer

$65,000 base salary + super

Commission on every opportunity you create that the Specialist team closes

Full product, industry and sales training from the ground up

A written progression path to Sales Consultant and then Inbound Sales Specialist

A warm customer database rather than a cold list

A sales floor where the top team earned between $170,940 and $296,054 last financial year

Melbourne CBD office

Aussie Buckets supplies excavator attachments and equipment to customers across Australia. We have built a marketing-powered sales model that gives our salespeople a large volume of genuine customer demand, so they spend their time selling rather than prospecting. We are now building the next generation of that team from the ground up, and we promote from within it.

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📌 Sales Associate (Melbourne)
🏢 Aussie Buckets
📍 Melbourne