Overview
In this role you bridge technology and sales for the polypropylene and recyclate SECULENE portfolio within the Plastics Division. You drive technical consulting, application development, and commercial growth across automotive and industrial markets, with a focus on circular material solutions. You engage with customers, support material approvals, and identify new business opportunities to accelerate market adoption. The position offers regional scope in EMEA and requires regular travel, with options to base in Hanover or Braubach.
Leistungen / Benefits
- flexible working hours
- above-average vacation days
- mobile working policy
- company kindergarten
- healthcare and fitness offerings
- bike leasing
Verantwortungsbereiche
- Understand automotive and industrial market needs for polypropylene and advance product applications
- Advise customers on processing plastics and developing new applications (focus on injection moulding)
- Handle customer complaints and resolve technical questions on-site or with colleagues
- Monitor market trends and translate insights into product development
- Prepare cost/material analyses and assist with product and market analyses
- Act as a credible technical partner during material approvals and specifications
- Identify, qualify and convert new business opportunities for polypropylene and SECULENE
- Develop strategic customer relationships and promote circular material solutions
- Build relationships across engineering, development, sustainability, procurement, and management in OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers
- Manage structured sales pipeline from identification to quotation and commercial implementation
- Lead technical/commercial discussions including price negotiations to ensure value-based selling and profitability
- Convert market intelligence into reliable volume forecasts and growth opportunities
- Strengthen recyclates positioning against virgin materials and leverage sustainability trends
- Represent Clarios Plastics and SECULENE externally at events and associations
Zentrale Anforderungen
- Completed engineering degree with plastics-related focus and several years of experience
- Solid plastics knowledge and processing know-how; recyclates a plus
- Experience in technical sales or business development in a B2B industrial environment (ideally automotive OEM/Tier 1)
- Proven ability to build relationships and develop business in a technically demanding setting
- Strong commercial understanding of value drivers, pricing, and margins
- Ability to translate technical/customer needs into viable solutions and growth
- Analytical, solution-oriented, customer-focused with hands-on teamwork
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Fluent German and English (written and spoken)
- Willingness to travel regularly within the EMEA region
- Analytical mindset
- Customer-focused
- Pragmatic, hands-on
- Plastics knowledge (polypropylene), processing techniques, especially injection moulding
- Knowledge of recyclates and circular material solutions
- Material approvals, qualification, and specification processes
Technical Sales Manager (m/f/d) in Braunschweig Arbeitgeber: Clarios
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