Technical Sales & Applications Manager – Advanced Composites

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Engage directly with customers to comprehend their material, processing, performance, and application requirements.

• Discover and cultivate new customer and application prospects for prepreg and advanced composite materials throughout North America.

• Assist in material selection, sampling, testing, trials, qualification, specification, and commercialization processes.

• Establish and nurture relationships with OEMs, composite fabricators, processors, distributors, engineers, and technical decision-makers.

• Convert customer challenges into technical and commercial opportunities by collaborating with engineering, product management, and manufacturing teams.

• Generate new accounts and enhance a qualified pipeline of customer and application opportunities.

• Aid in 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 exhibitions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Professional experience in advanced composites, prepregs, carbon fiber, fiberglass, thermoset materials, or related structural composite technologies.

• Solid understanding of composite materials and manufacturing processes such as layup, curing, molding, material testing, qualification, or composite fabrication.

• Experience interacting directly with customers, suppliers, OEMs, fabricators, or other external technical stakeholders.

• Capability to grasp a customer's technical challenges and communicate effectively with both engineers and commercial decision-makers.

• Enthusiasm for developing applications, customers, and new business alongside providing technical support.

• A proactive, self-motivated working style with the ability to function effectively within an international organization.

• Willingness to travel approximately 50–70% across North America.

• Experience with thermoset prepreg materials, resin systems, UD or fabric-reinforced prepregs, CFRP/GFRP, or prepreg processing is especially beneficial.

• Strong related composite-material experience and a technical foundation to learn the company's specific prepreg portfolio.

🏝️ 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.