Company Description
TEXVIA is an international industrial technology and engineering company delivering Smart Manufacturing, industrial automation, MES, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, industrial data, IT/OT integration, engineering outsourcing, and digital transformation solutions.
TEXVIA supports manufacturing organisations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America, and other international markets through global expertise, flexible engineering delivery, and strong technical capabilities.
Our solutions help industrial customers improve operational visibility, production performance, system connectivity, planning, reliability, and digital maturity.
TEXVIA - Powering Your Industrial Intelligence.
Role Description
TEXVIA is seeking an ambitious Business Development Engineer to join its Commercial Team. This opportunity is ideal for early-career professionals with a background in industrial automation, electrical engineering, mechatronics, control systems, or related technologies who are eager to build a career in technical sales and business development. Previous sales experience is an advantage but not essential.
The successful candidate will develop new business opportunities, build strong customer relationships, understand industrial challenges, and clearly communicate the value of TEXVIA’s solutions. This is a dynamic, customer-facing role involving direct outreach, networking, customer meetings, site visits, and close collaboration with TEXVIA’s Commercial and Technical teams.
- Department: Commercial
- Location: Cairo, with regional travel
- Employment Type: Full-Time
Key Responsibilities:
- New Business Development: Proactively identify, prospect, develop, and close new business opportunities across TEXVIA’s target industries and territories. This is a highly outbound role involving cold calling, direct outreach, networking, industry events, referrals, and face-to-face customer meetings.
- Strategic Account Development: Build and maintain strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and decision-makers. Identify account-expansion and cross-selling opportunities, including software licences, service-level agreements, engineering services, system upgrades, and solution expansions.
- Technical Consultative Selling: Act as a trusted business and technology advisor to customers. Understand their operational challenges and translate complex technical solutions into clear business value and measurable outcomes.
- Sales Cycle, Pipeline and Forecast Management: Own the complete sales cycle from lead generation and qualification through discovery, proposal development, negotiation, contract award, and closing. Maintain accurate CRM records, opportunity values, stages, probabilities, decision-makers, closing dates, forecasts, and next actions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with TEXVIA’s technical, delivery, partnership, and commercial teams to develop suitable solutions, proposals, commercial models, and customer presentations.
- Regional Customer Engagement: Conduct regular customer meetings, industrial-site visits, and business-development activities across Saudi Arabia, Egypt’s major industrial zones, and other assigned markets. Regular regional travel is required.
- Market and Competitive Intelligence: Provide regular insights regarding customer needs, market developments, competitors, upcoming industrial projects, and potential partnership opportunities.
Mandatory Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics, Electrical, Automation, Industrial, Computer, or a related engineering discipline, with a good understanding of manufacturing and industrial environments.
- International Travel Eligibility: Candidates must hold a valid passport and be legally eligible to undertake regular international business travel, including travel to Europe, the United States, Canada, the GCC, and other markets relevant to TEXVIA’s business activities.
- Commercial Potential: Strong interest in business development, technical sales, and customer engagement. Previous sales experience is valued, but candidates with strong potential, relevant internships, or customer-facing exposure are also encouraged to apply.
- Technical Understanding: Ability to understand industrial technologies and translate technical concepts into clear business value for customers.
- Communication Skills: Excellent presentation, negotiation, relationship-building, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Sales Mindset: High energy, resilience, confidence, and persistence, with a strong motivation to generate opportunities and close business.
- Outbound Confidence: Comfortable approaching new customers through cold calling, direct outreach, networking, meetings, and industrial-site visits.
- International Mobility: The role requires regional and international travel. Candidates must have the ability to obtain and maintain any visas, travel authorisations, or entry permissions required for assigned business travel.
- Languages: Strong written and spoken Business English. Arabic or another relevant language would be advantageous.
- Working Style: Proactive, organised, results-oriented, and able to work independently while collaborating effectively with commercial and technical teams.
Highly Preferred Qualifications
The following qualifications will be considered a strong advantage:
- International Background: Candidates from diverse international backgrounds and nationalities are highly encouraged to apply. Experience, education, residency, or professional exposure in Europe, the United Kingdom, North America, the GCC, or other international markets is highly preferred.
- Additional Languages: Professional fluency in an additional European or international language, particularly German, French, Spanish, Italian, or Dutch, is highly preferred.
- International Market Experience: Experience working with global customers, partners, multicultural teams, or international engineering organisations.
- Commercial Exposure: Previous experience or internships in business development, technical sales, presales, account management, or customer engagement.
- Industrial Technology Knowledge: Familiarity with industrial automation, Smart Manufacturing, MES, APS, industrial data, or digital transformation.
Performance Metrics:
- Achievement of sales and revenue targets.
- Growth of customer base (local & international).
- Expansion of business in the industrial automation domain.
- Customer satisfaction and retention levels.
- Contribution to market intelligence and strategic planning.
What TEXVIA Offers
- Join a growing industrial technology Partner with exposure to global customers, partners, and manufacturing projects.
- Receive structured development and training across technical sales, automation, Smart Manufacturing, MES, industrial data, APS, and digital transformation.
- Work directly with experienced technical and commercial professionals in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and multicultural environment.
- Benefit from competitive compensation, performance-related incentives, international opportunities, and clear career progression into future commercial leadership.
Equal Opportunity Statement
TEXVIA is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and professional working environment.
We welcome applications from candidates of all nationalities, cultures, and professional backgrounds. Selection will be based on capability, potential, attitude, language skills, relevant experience, and alignment with the requirements of the role.
