Technical Sales & Applications Manager Advanced Composites

Remote United States Midwest or Eastern U.S. preferred 5070% North American travel

Were looking for someone who understands advanced composite materials and wants to play a bigger role in how those materials are applied qualified and ultimately commercialized.

Our client an established international manufacturer of prepregs advanced composites and high-performance engineered materials is expanding its North American composites business and is seeking a Technical Sales & Applications Manager Advanced Composites.

You dont necessarily need to come from a traditional sales career. You might currently be an Applications Engineer Composite Engineer Technical Service Engineer Sales Engineer Technical Account Manager or Technical Sales professional working with carbon fiber fiberglass thermoset composites prepregs or related structural composite technologies.

What matters is that you understand the materials can work credibly with customers and engineers and are interested in taking greater ownership of customer applications and commercial opportunities.

Youll work with OEMs composite fabricators processors and distributors to understand technical requirements identify applications support material evaluation and qualification and develop opportunities into long-term commercial business.

The companys advanced-composites portfolio includes thermoset prepregs and UD prepregs utilizing carbon glass aramid basalt and other reinforcement systems along with laminates reinforced materials composite components and specialized engineered-material solutions.

What Youll Do

• Work directly with customers to understand material processing performance and application requirements.
• Identify and develop new customer and application opportunities for prepreg and advanced composite materials across North America.
• Support material selection sampling testing trials qualification specification and commercialization.
• Build relationships with OEMs composite fabricators processors distributors engineers and technical decision-makers.
• Translate customer challenges into technical and commercial opportunities in collaboration with engineering product management and manufacturing teams.
• Develop new accounts and contribute to a qualified pipeline of customer and application opportunities.
• Support technical presentations quotations proposals pricing discussions and commercial negotiations.
• Coordinate customer projects with colleagues across North America and Europe.
• Represent the company at customer meetings industry events and trade shows.

What You Bring

• Professional experience with advanced composites prepregs carbon fiber fiberglass thermoset materials or closely related structural composite technologies.
• Practical understanding of composite materials and manufacturing processes such as layup curing molding material testing qualification or composite fabrication.
• Experience working directly with customers suppliers OEMs fabricators or other external technical stakeholders.
• Ability to understand a customers technical challenge and communicate effectively with both engineers and commercial decision-makers.
• Interest in developing applications customers and new business in addition to providing technical support.
• A proactive self-directed working style and the ability to operate effectively within an international organization.
• Willingness to travel approximately 5070% throughout North America.

Experience with thermoset prepreg materials resin systems UD or fabric-reinforced prepregs CFRP/GFRP or prepreg processing is particularly valuable. Candidates with strong adjacent composite-material experience and the technical foundation to learn the companys specific prepreg portfolio are also encouraged to apply.

Compensation & Benefits

• Target base salary: $110000 commensurate with experience
• Performance-based variable compensation
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage
• Company-supported dental and vision coverage
• Employer-paid life short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Retirement savings participation with company match
• 1214 company-observed holidays annually
• Progressive paid time-off structure that increases with tenure
• Structured onboarding and technical product training

This is an opportunity to help build an advanced-composites business in North America while being backed by the technical expertise manufacturing capabilities and product portfolio of an established international organization.