Technical Sales Manager – Prepreg & Advanced Composites

German American Chambers of Commerce; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental and vision coverage

Life and disability insurance

Retirement savings with company match

Holidays

Paid time-off

Onboarding and training

Job summary

German American Chambers of Commerce is seeking a Technical Sales Manager for Prepreg & Advanced Composites. The role is remote in the United States, with the Midwest preferred for access to an airport, and requires substantial travel across North America.

You will engage with OEMs, composite fabricators, distributors, and internal teams to understand customer needs, support material evaluation, and help develop applications and commercial opportunities in markets like industrial automation,

Qualifications

• Direct experience with prepregs is required.
• Strong understanding of thermoset prepregs and structural composites.
• Experience working with customers in technical or commercial roles.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Prepreg materials

Thermoset composites

Customer-facing

Technical sales

North America market

OEM & distributors experience

Job description

Technical Sales Manager – Prepreg & Advanced Composites

Location: Remote, United States; Midwest preferred, with convenient access to a major commercial airport.

Travel: Approximately 50–70% throughout North America

Compensation: Target base salary of $110,000, commensurate with experience, plus performance-based variable compensation and a competitive, comprehensive benefits package

About the Role

A well-established German manufacturer of prepregs, advanced composites, and high-performance engineered materials is expanding its North American business and is seeking a Technical Sales Manager – Prepreg & Advanced Composites. This role is ideal for someone who already understands prepreg materials, thermoset composites, and composite processing and has meaningful customer-facing experience.

You may currently work in Technical Sales, Sales Engineering, Technical Account Management, Account Management, Territory Sales, or Business Development. We are also interested in candidates from Applications Engineering, Technical Service, or Application Development who already work directly with customers and have begun supporting commercial opportunities.

You will work with OEMs, composite fabricators, distributors, and internal technical teams to understand customer requirements, support material evaluation and qualification, and help develop applications and commercial opportunities. Target markets include industrial automation, commercial and specialty vehicles, medical technology, marine, wind energy, and other selected advanced-composite applications.

The company’s advanced composites portfolio includes thermoset prepregs and UD prepregs based on glass, carbon, aramid, basalt, and other reinforcement systems, as well as laminates, reinforced materials, composite components, and other specialized material solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

• Work with customers to understand material, processing, performance, and application requirements.

• Support material evaluation, sampling, testing, qualification, specification, and commercialization activities.

• Contribute to building and advancing 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 relevant customer meetings, industry events, and trade shows.

What You Bring:

• Direct and meaningful professional experience with prepreg materials is required.

• Strong technical understanding of thermoset prepregs and structural composite materials.

• Familiarity with relevant prepreg and composite concepts such as:

• Carbon fiber and glass fiber reinforced materials

• CFRP and GFRP

• Unidirectional and/or fabric-reinforced prepreg systems

• Thermoset resin systems

• Composite material processing

• Curing and manufacturing processes

• Material testing and qualification

• Structural composite applications

• Meaningful experience working directly with customers in a technical or commercial environment.

• Experience working for or with prepreg manufacturers, advanced composite material suppliers, composite fabricators, OEMs, material processors, or technical distributors is particularly valuable.

Compensation & Benefits

• Target base salary of $110,000, 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

• 12–14 company-observed holidays annually

• Progressive paid time-off structure that increases with tenure

• Structured onboarding and technical product training