Technical Sales Manager – Prepreg, Advanced Composites

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $110k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤑 Sales

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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 and develop customer, application, and growth opportunities for prepreg and advanced composite materials across North America • Build relationships with OEMs, composite fabricators, processors, distributors, and technical and commercial stakeholders • Understand customers’ material, processing, performance, and application requirements • Support material evaluation, sampling, testing, qualification, specification, and commercialization activities • Build and advance a qualified pipeline of customer and application opportunities • Support technical presentations, proposals, quotations, pricing discussions, and commercial negotiations • Coordinate customer projects with engineering, product management, manufacturing, and commercial teams • Represent the company at customer meetings, industry events, and trade shows

🎯 Requirements

• Direct and meaningful professional experience with prepreg materials is required • Strong technical understanding of thermoset prepregs and structural composite materials • Familiarity with carbon fiber and glass fiber reinforced materials • Familiarity with CFRP and GFRP • Familiarity with unidirectional and/or fabric-reinforced prepreg systems • Familiarity with thermoset resin systems • Knowledge of composite material processing • Knowledge of curing and manufacturing processes • Knowledge of material testing and qualification • Knowledge of structural composite applications • Meaningful experience working directly with customers in a technical or commercial environment • Experience with prepreg manufacturers, advanced composite material suppliers, composite fabricators, OEMs, material processors, or technical distributors is particularly valuable • Ability to travel approximately 50–70% throughout North America • Midwest preferred, with convenient access to a major commercial airport

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 and technical product training • Competitive, comprehensive benefits package