Technical Sales & Applications Manager, Advanced Composites

GACC Midwest - German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement match

Holidays

Paid time off

Onboarding training

Job summary

GACC Midwest - German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest, Inc. is seeking a Technical Sales & Applications Manager – Advanced Composites to drive application development, material evaluation, and commercialization across North America.

Remote opportunity in the United States with 50-70% travel, engaging OEMs, fabricators, and engineers to translate technical needs into commercial solutions and collaborate with engineering and product teams.

Qualifications

• Experience with advanced composites, prepregs, carbon fiber, or related structural materials.
• Ability to translate technical challenges into commercial opportunities.
• Experience working directly with customers, suppliers, OEMs, or technical stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel 50-70% in North America.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to understand material, processing, performance, and application requirements.
• Identify and develop new customer and application opportunities for prepregs and advanced composites across North America.
• Support material selection, sampling, testing, trials, qualification, specification, and commercialization.
• Build relationships with OEMs, 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.

Skills

Advanced composites

Customer engagement

Technical communication

Travel readiness

Job description

GACC Midwest - German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest, Inc. is seeking a Technical Sales & Applications Manager – Advanced Composites to drive application development, material evaluation, and commercialization across North America.

Remote opportunity in the United States with 50-70% travel, engaging OEMs, fabricators, and engineers to translate technical needs into commercial solutions and collaborate with engineering and product teams.