Business Development Manager – Advanced Materials

🔥 8 hours ago

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $100k - $110k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💰 Business Development (BDR)

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GACC Midwest - German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest, Inc.

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1963

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📚 Education

Consulting • Marketing • Education

GACC Midwest is the German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest, Inc. , serving as a pivotal contact point for German and American businesses in the Midwest United States. Headquartered in Chicago with chapters in Detroit, Denver, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee, it supports a network of companies through a variety of services, including market entry assistance to the USA, intercultural coaching, and business development consulting. The chamber is involved in significant initiatives such as climate and energy partnerships and the advancement of dual education systems. It facilitates transatlantic business connections and offers networking events, training programs, and visa assistance, working to stimulate economic growth and cooperation between Germany and the United States.

📋 Description

• Identify, prospect, and develop new OEM, manufacturer, fabricator, converter, and distributor relationships across North America • Build a qualified pipeline of new customers, applications, and market opportunities • Own opportunities from initial outreach and discovery through qualification, proposal development, pricing, negotiation, closing, and commercial launch • Identify applications where high-performance materials can solve customer performance, manufacturing, cost, or supply-chain challenges • Develop new territories and market segments rather than primarily maintaining an established book of business • Build relationships across engineering, procurement, operations, product development, and executive leadership • Work closely with engineering, product management, manufacturing, and commercial teams to advance technically complex opportunities • Coordinate customer and business-development activities with colleagues across the United States, Mexico, and Europe • Represent the company at customer visits, trade shows, conferences, and other industry events • Develop North American business for an international manufacturer of engineered materials, including electrical insulation materials, technical laminates, reinforced materials, composites, and other high-performance solutions

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated success developing new B2B customers, territories, applications, or market segments • Experience in business development, territory sales, technical sales, market development, account development, or a comparable commercial role within engineered materials, composites, plastics, insulation, specialty materials, or industrial manufacturing • Experience selling technical materials, components, or industrial solutions into manufacturing environments • Strong new-business orientation and ability to independently prospect, create, and develop opportunities • Ability to understand technical applications and engage credibly with engineering, manufacturing, procurement, and commercial stakeholders • Experience working with OEMs, manufacturers, fabricators, converters, distributors, or similar industrial customers • Strong consultative selling, qualification, negotiation, and relationship-development skills • Proactive, self-directed, and organized working style with strong commercial judgment • Ability to operate effectively within a lean, international organization and collaborate across functions and countries • Willingness to travel approximately 50–70% throughout North America • Experience within composites, engineered plastics, electrical insulation, advanced materials, automotive, commercial vehicles, rail, industrial automation, or adjacent manufacturing markets is particularly valuable • U.S.-based candidates • Convenient access to a major commercial airport

🏖️ Benefits

• Attractive 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 • 12–14 company-observed holidays annually • Progressive paid-time-off structure that increases with tenure • Structured onboarding through local mentorship • Experienced technical, manufacturing, and commercial team support