Technical Sales Specialist

Must-Haves:

• 4 years of experience as a sales representative
• Experience within the plastics, adhesives, manufacturing, or fabrication industry.
• Excellent customer service skills, interfacing with internal and external groups at all levels (cross-functional teams, and customers).
• Experience with MS Office Suite (PPT, Excel, and Word).
• Must be comfortable with 60-70% travel for customer/client meetings.
• Excellent communication skills and a problem solver

Plusses:

• Technical experience with composites, plastics, and molding techniques (ex: hand layup, Pultrusion, RTM, Open/Closed Molding, Injection Molding, Advanced Composites, 3D printing).
• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering/Manufacturing
• Experience working within an autobody, Pool/Spa, RV, Boat Repair industry.

Day-to-Day:

Insight Global is looking for a Technical/Chemical Sales Engineer to join a mid sized chemical manufacturing/plastics company in Monroe CT. This role will be reporting to the Technical Director. As a Technical Service Engineer, this person will be focusing on growing and supporting existing business and meeting with various level stakeholders to drive sales for the company. This position will involve in-house physical application testing, sales demo support and field service work. This role works closely and collaboratively with both the laboratory and the sales team to demonstrate and troubleshoot the products in various molding applications. Lastly this person will create educational materials, train the sales team and customers, conduct customer audits/troubleshooting, attend trade shows, and seek new product opportunities. Ensuring safety in lab and chemical production environments is crucial, and you will travel up to 70% of the time.