Technical Sales Manager – Prepreg, Advanced Composites

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

📋 Description

• Identify and cultivate customer, application, and growth opportunities for prepreg and advanced composite materials throughout North America.

• Foster relationships with OEMs, composite fabricators, processors, distributors, and both technical and commercial stakeholders.

• Comprehend customers’ material, processing, performance, and application needs.

• Assist in material evaluation, sampling, testing, qualification, specification, and commercialization efforts.

• Establish and enhance a qualified pipeline of customer and application prospects.

• Aid in technical presentations, proposals, quotations, pricing discussions, and commercial negotiations.

• Coordinate customer projects with engineering, product management, manufacturing, and commercial teams.

• Represent the organization at customer meetings, industry events, and trade shows.

⛳️ Requirements

• Direct and substantial professional experience with prepreg materials is essential.

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

• Familiarity with carbon fiber and glass fiber reinforced materials.

• Understanding of CFRP and GFRP.

• Knowledge of unidirectional and/or fabric-reinforced prepreg systems.

• Familiarity with thermoset resin systems.

• Understanding of composite material processing.

• Knowledge of curing and manufacturing processes.

• Familiarity with material testing and qualification.

• Insight into structural composite applications.

• Significant experience engaging directly with customers in a technical or commercial setting.

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

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

• Preferred location in the Midwest, 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.

• Participation in retirement savings with company match.

• 12–14 company-observed holidays each year.

• Progressive paid-time-off structure that increases with tenure.

• Structured onboarding and technical product training.

• Competitive and comprehensive benefits package.