Company Description
United Texmac Pte Ltd (Unitex), founded in Singapore in 1996, specializes in manufacturing high-quality circular knitting machines. With operations in Malaysia's Iskandar Development Zone, Fujian, and a premier R&D center in Shanghai, Unitex is committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions to meet customer needs worldwide.
In This Role, You Will
Leverage your deep sales experience and regional relationships to grow the business of circular knitting machines in Bangladesh & Pakistan for Unitex. You will learn and own the full sales cyclefrom market development, channel/agent management, negotiation, to closing major capital equipment dealsand serve as the face of the company in the region.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a strategic sales plan for Bangladesh & Pakistan: identify growth pockets, demand trends, key customers (mills, textile manufacturers), and route to market.
- Manage and nurture key distribution partners/agents, oversee customer relationships, ensure the channel is enabled and performing.
- Present and position our circular knitting machine portfolio (including latest technology) against competitors in the region.
- Lead negotiations (commercial, technical, service/spare parts) with major customers, ensuring profitable contracts that reflect our value proposition.
- Drive forecasting, pipeline management, sales reporting, and regular region-market reviews.
- Represent the company at trade shows, exhibitions and customer visits in Bangladesh & Pakistan; deliver product demonstrations, technical briefings and competitor/market insights.
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, service, spare-parts & logistics teams to ensure smooth execution of orders, commissioning and after-sales support.
- Gather market intelligence: monitor competitor activity, emerging technologies, customer investment trends, government/regulatory policies in Bangladesh & Pakistan, and feed this into regional strategy.
Requirements and Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or related discipline.
- Minimum 2 to 3 years (preferably more) of capital-equipment sales experience; ideally in textile machinery or industrial/engineering equipment.
- Proven track record of achieving sales targets, ideally in the Bangladesh and/or Pakistan markets or similar emerging textile markets.
- Good technical knowledge (or strong willingness to learn) of circular knitting machines, their application in textile manufacturing, and ability to articulate ROI and differentiate our machines from competitors.
- Excellent negotiation and closing skills, comfortable dealing with senior management of textile mills, brand owners and channel partners.
- Strong resourcefulness, customerservice mindset, crosscultural communication skills, ability to adapt to diverse markets.
- Experience managing agents/distributors in a region, channel-development mindset.
- Comfortable travelling frequently (50%+), often to Bangladesh and Pakistan.
- Strong organisational skills: able to manage long-sales-cycles, multiple stakeholders, and handle after-sales/stakeholder engagement.
- Proficiency in English; additional regional language (Urdu, Bengali) beneficial but not essential.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to join a leading global circular knitting machine player (Unitex) and help build our footprint in high-growth Bangladesh & Pakistan textile markets.
- A Singaporebased hub with global support and the opportunity to travel, engage with global customers, attend major exhibitions and expand your professional network in textile machinery.
- A competitive compensation and bonus structure aligned with performance, plus travel and field-allowance.
- Development opportunities: visit manufacturing plants, attend international exhibitions, access to the latest machine training and product-roadmap briefings, and upskilling programmes.
- Career development potential: as the region grows, you may step into more senior leadership, regional management roles.
