Sales and Business Development Nonwoven

7 hours, 38 minutes ago
Senior
Sales and Business Development
SP Associates

SP Associates

SP Associates is a renowned executive recruiting firm with 50 years of experience specializing in textiles, chemicals, fibers, and non-wovens. They offer contingency-based and retainer-based recruiting services, including confidential executive searche...

Professional Services
11-50
Founded 1969

Description

  • Develop and execute business development strategies for targeted industrial and specialty nonwoven markets.
  • Identify, qualify, and pursue new customers, applications, and revenue opportunities.
  • Build and maintain a pipeline of new business opportunities.
  • Develop relationships with OEMs, Tier suppliers, engineers, purchasing teams, and key decision-makers.
  • Manage and grow strategic customer accounts to increase revenue and market penetration.
  • Lead customer opportunities from concept and RFQ through development, testing, launch, and commercialization.
  • Collaborate with Engineering, R&D, Operations, Quality, and Manufacturing to deliver customer solutions.
  • Identify applications where engineered nonwovens can replace or improve traditional materials.
  • Conduct customer visits, business reviews, technical meetings, audits, and presentations.
  • Monitor market and competitive activity and represent the company at trade shows, conferences, and customer events.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in B2B sales, business development, account management, or technical sales.
  • Experience in nonwovens, textiles, engineered materials, filtration, insulation, composites, or a related industry.
  • Demonstrated success developing new business and growing strategic customer accounts.
  • Experience working with OEMs and/or industrial customers.
  • Experience managing RFQs, customer specifications, product development, trials, testing, and new program launches.
  • Strong project management, negotiation, presentation, and communication skills.
  • Ability to collaborate across sales, engineering, R&D, operations, and quality teams.
  • Willingness and ability to travel to customer locations and industry events.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Textiles, Marketing, or a related field (preferred).
  • Knowledge of nonwoven materials, applications, and manufacturing processes, and experience in appliance, filtration, acoustical, insulation, industrial, transportation, building and construction, or specialty materials markets (preferred).

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