Archives July 2008

Human Resources Director (hr110sh)

Job Title: Human Resources Director
Report To: General Manager
Location: ____Shanghai____________________
Our client is Fortune 500 American enterprise with a history of outstanding performance and has six BUs in China with 6800 employees. It is diversified technology leader, designs, manufactures, and markets innovative products and services with strong brand names and significant market positions. Its business activities encompass four reporting segments and are comprised of six strategic platforms: Medical Technologies, Professional Instrumentation, Industrial Technologies and Tools & Components.
Job Description:
Provide HR leadership by partnering closely with business leader and cross-functional peers to create organizational capability through talent management, organization effectiveness, rewards and employee relations.
Responsibilities:
1. Leader HR Processes such as organizational development and effectiveness, performance management, staffing, training initiatives, compensation, benefits, career development, employee relations and HR policy development.
2. Build and maintain effective working relations with the leadership team and employees to advise both on employee-related and organizational matters.
3. Improve the Human Resources department capability.
4. Oversee the implementation of structured communication cascade plan involving department managers to reach all local employees.
5. Implement strategic HR initiatives to create a strong culture of leaders and high-performing teams.
6. Manage the day-to-day activities and timely follow-up of any Ethics Compliance Hotline activities.
7. Provide guidance and counseling on HR issues when requested or when needed to improve a department’s performance or relationships.
8. Keep current on all statutory regulations and align company policies, practices and procedures to ensure compliance.
Requirement:
1. University degree or above;
2. Around 8-10 years experience as HR generalist, at least 3 year’s manager experience.
3. Be familiar with labour laws and related rule and regulations;
4. Required skills: Very good presentation; Very good planning and organization skills; Energetic and enthusiastic; Self motivated; Excellent communication and social skills; Honest and reliable; careful and sensitive to the figures.
5. Good English.
6. Very good PC skills in MS Words, Excel, Power Point.
* Please send us your complete resume (both in Chinese and in English to: ‘topjob_hr110sh@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
* In the email subject MUST you plus the position name ?in either En or Ch ?

Area Sales Manager (mkt246gz)

Job Title: Area Sales Manager (South China)
Job Description:
Company introduction:
Our client has over 70 years experience of supplying specialist chemicals to the construction industry. By concentrating on innovation and service to the customer, it now leads the way in specification selling into the construction chemicals market. This wealth of experience is gained from our worldwide presence in more than 20 countries, with exports to a further 50 countries. Their main customers are building, civil engineering and specialist contractors, served by a proactive and knowledgeable sales team. They also provide advice to architects and engineering consultants on the specification and use of the systems. They are supported by a global network of industry specialists, research laboratories and manufacturing facilities.
It is the leading supplier of high quality, cost effective systems for construction, protection and repair of concrete structures. With the development in Asia, they are welcome more talent to join in.

Report To: GSM Greater China____
Location: ___Guangzhou__________

Responsibilities:

1. To be responsible for all aspects of sales for the given area/region and achieve sales targets as agreed with the company.
2. Develop and manage an effective distributor network in the relevant area/region.
3. To lead and manage sales team to expand market share through direct sales and to improve margin contribution.
4. Key Areas of Responsibility
5. Achieving the given sales targets through aggressive selling.
6. Offer market information and feedbacks, develop new commercial opportunities.
7. New business and market segment development, drive key marketing projects to explore growth potential in new customers, applications or industries.
8. Close communication with regional and global business and technical team.
9. To closely interact with the Product and Specification team by focusing on potential areas for particular products towards maximizing sales and profitability.
10. To develop good and effective contacts with consultants for furthering company’s business interests. To establish and maintain good relationship with applicators to gain higher sales.
11. Co-ordinate between the Sales and Customer Services Teams to ensure customer satisfaction.
12. Prepare and contribute to the company’s sales plan by reviewing performance and examining potential growth, both in terms of the construction industry in the relevant area/region

Requirements:

1. At least 5 years relevant work experience.
2. Excellent skills of selling, leading and communication.
3. A sound knowledge of Chinese market of chemical supplementary materials.
4. Integrity, hard work, result oriented and good team player.
5. Excellent negotiate and communication skill, worked independent and analytic spirit.
6. Basic command of spoken Cantonese and English
* Please send us your complete resume (both in Chinese and in English to: ‘topjob_mkt246gz@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
* In the email subject MUST you plus the position name ?in either En or Ch ?

National Sales Manager (mkt245gz)

Job Title: National Sales Manager
Job Description:
Company introduction:
Our client has over 70 years experience of supplying specialist chemicals to the construction industry. By concentrating on innovation and service to the customer, it now leads the way in specification selling into the construction chemicals market. This wealth of experience is gained from our worldwide presence in more than 20 countries, with exports to a further 50 countries. Their main customers are building, civil engineering and specialist contractors, served by a proactive and knowledgeable sales team. They also provide advice to architects and engineering consultants on the specification and use of the systems. They are supported by a global network of industry specialists, research laboratories and manufacturing facilities.
It is the leading supplier of high quality, cost effective systems for construction, protection and repair of concrete structures. With the development in Asia, they are welcome more talent to join in.

Report To: GSM, Greater China____
Location: ___Guangzhou __________

Responsibilities:

1. To build the sales and marketing teams in China such that company can grow sales rapidly, profitably and sustainably.
2. To lead the Sales Team in such a manner as to meet or exceed the company financial budgets and targets in mainland China.
3. Develop and maintain excellent business relationships with key decision makers within the industry and company customer community
4. To develop an understanding of the markets in the various regions within China and to work with the Management Team to develop strategies to that enable the company to use this understanding to grow market share and profitability.
5. To develop a professional sales team in the Greater China Region, instilling structure and discipline into the sales process.
6. To manage risk, particularly those involving warranties and other long term commitments by the company, and to effectively manage the balance between risk and opportunity in all sales activities.
7. Drive the adoption of Best Practice in sales management and the sales team
8. Generate new product and service ideas and channel through the company innovation process
9. Track and document the activities of competitors, customers (direct and indirect) and clients, then formulate effective strategies to maximize the company sales.
10. To manage the collection of cash by the sales team such that debts and debtors are minimized.
11. Manage and allocate sales team resources in order to maximize the effectiveness of our customer relationships
12. Set and monitor individual sales team budgets and targets with respect to Group objectives and Company budgets

Requirements:
1. Bachelor degree or above majoring in Engineering or related areas.
2. Minimum of 10 years relevant commercial experience, with 5+ years at senior management level,
3. Five years sales management experience within a B2B environment. Previous experience of the construction / building industry in China will be desirable.
4. Outperformed sales skills and very strong capability in potential partners define. Written proven sales record will be preferred.
5. Strong in dealing with customers of diverse backgrounds such as SOE and WOE.
6. Expert in project sales & management as well as total solution delivery.
7. Familiar with modern enterprise management modules, ability to lead sales team for results deliverable.
8. Sound commercial awareness. Excellent leadership skills. Excellent promotional, influencing and people management skills. A sound understanding of contracts and contractual risk. Ability to understand cost and pricing issues and their impact on the business.
9. International experience and understanding of managing and coopering in different cultures.
10. The ability to be able to analyze complex issues with incomplete information available. The ability to enjoy working and leading a team in a multicultural environment
11. Excellent communication skills, written and oral, at all levels of seniority, both internal and external to the company. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Good command of English, both oral & writing.
12. Personality: Excellent leadership and team spirit. Strong in interpersonal communication, negotiation and persuasion. Mature, self-motivated, reliable, willing to deal with challenges .Ability to maintain an open mind and high level of flexibility
13. The job covers the whole of China and significant traveling will be required.
* Please send us your complete resume (both in Chinese and in English to: ‘topjob_mkt245gz@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
* In the email subject MUST you plus the position name ?in either En or Ch ?

Shortage of talent pushes up salaries

EMPLOYERS on the Chinese mainland are facing the highest salary inflation in Asia due to the country’s rising demand for professionals, according to a human resources report released in Shanghai yesterday.

Hudson Recruitment, a Nasdaq-listed headhunting firm, asked more than 2,600 multinational organizations on the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore about their hiring intentions over the next three months.

Of the 708 respondents from the mainland, only 8 percent of employers said they could negotiate lower salaries for new managerial hires, the lowest proportion in Asia.

In Singapore, about 10 percent said they were able to negotiate. The figure was 11 percent in Japan and 13 percent in Hong Kong.

“The lowest figure in Asia indicates that employers have little scope to negotiate lower new hire salaries and salary inflation is the most prevalent issue for them,” said Angie Eagan, Hudson’s general manager in Shanghai.

“The Chinese mainland is still a talent-short market, the ongoing competition for strong candidates means that employers are not able to effectively combat the increases in asking salaries for new hires,” Eagan said.

The mainland is the only region in Asia surveyed which reported an increased hiring expectation. The survey reported that about 55 percent employers were planning to add to their headcount in the next three months, compared with the 52 percent in the second quarter this year.

Expansion in the retail, tourism and hospitality segments and the approaching Beijing Olympics was driving the growth, analysts said.

Chinese employers are still suffering from the highest turnover rates, with 71 percent respondents in mainland and Hong Kong reporting an equal or even higher turnover rate over the past year.

Survey respondents said performance-related bonuses, training and development programs as well as substantial pay increases were the most effective measures companies could take to retain staff.

China to invest 12.7b yuan on farmland

Chinese government will spend 12.7 billion yuan ($1.85 billion) on upgrading lower-yield farmland this year, the State Office for Comprehensive Agricultural Development said on Wednesday.

The money, which is 10.27 percent more than last year, will transform 1.77 million hectares of lower-yield farmland into high-yield. As a result, three billion kilograms will be added to China’s total annual grain production capacity.

Around 7.69 billion yuan, or more than 60 percent of the funds, will go to the 13 major grain producing regions of Heibei, Henan, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shandong, Sichuan and Anhui provinces and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Lower-yield farmland is farmland that has an output less than 20 percent of the regional average, calculated on a three-year base.

The measures to upgrade lower-yield farmland varies from different places and the major means includes:

— to improve the irrigation system and road system;

— to transform mountainous farmland into terraces, making it easier for the machines to work;

— improve the soil quality by increasing organic matter content in the soil;

— to improve farming efficiency by training the farmers.

Altogether 35 water-efficient projects for the medium-scale irrigated regions will be initiated this year with an investment of 301 million yuan, said the office.

The rush in modern China to turn traditional farming areas into industrial zones or residential areas for expanding cities has caused continuous shrinkage of China’s farmland in recent years. So the nation has drawn a critical line of 120 million hectares as the official minimum of arable land to feed the world’s largest population. But statistics reported the amount of arable land fell to 121.73 million hectares last year.

From 1988 to 2007, China invested 320.3 billion yuan in comprehensive development of agriculture, including 99.2 billion yuan by the central government and 76.8 billion by local governments. Of the total, 34.3 billion yuan was bank loans, and 110 billion yuan was raised by farmers and other sectors.

This year, the country could see the fifth consecutive bumper harvest of summer grain, the first such run of harvests since 1949, the Ministry of Agriculture has said.

Summer crops, which usually account for about 23 percent of the total annual grain output, would surpass the 115.34 billion kilograms produced in 2007, the ministry said.

China yielded approximately 500 billion kilograms of grain last year.

Nokia Siemens Networks wins $870 mln deal with China Mobile

Nokia Siemens Networks has won a network expansion contract worth 550 million euros (about 870 million U.S. dollars) from China Mobile, the Finnish-German networks company said Friday.

The contract includes designing, building, maintaining and optimizing the radio and core network for China Mobile, Nokia Siemens Networks said in a statement.

The solutions supplied by Nokia Siemens Networks will help China Mobile increase its network capacity and improve customer experience, while controlling capital and operating expenditure, the statement added.

Nokia Siemens Networks, headquartered in Espoo, Finland, is an international telecom infrastructure company with operations in some 150 countries.

China Mobile, established in 2000, is one of the largest telecom carriers in Asia.

Nokia Siemens Networks wins $870 mln deal with China Mobile

Nokia Siemens Networks has won a network expansion contract worth 550 million euros (about 870 million U.S. dollars) from China Mobile, the Finnish-German networks company said Friday.

The contract includes designing, building, maintaining and optimizing the radio and core network for China Mobile, Nokia Siemens Networks said in a statement.

The solutions supplied by Nokia Siemens Networks will help China Mobile increase its network capacity and improve customer experience, while controlling capital and operating expenditure, the statement added.

Nokia Siemens Networks, headquartered in Espoo, Finland, is an international telecom infrastructure company with operations in some 150 countries.

China Mobile, established in 2000, is one of the largest telecom carriers in Asia.

German Continental AG to scale up investment in China

German Continental AG said Thursday it plans to scale up investment in China and introduce environmentally friendly technology to improve competitiveness.

Continental, the biggest auto parts supplier in Europe, said that 10 percent to 12 percent of its current earnings comes from Asian markets, where its sales are expected to double by 2015.

Continental has recently invested 55.5 million euros (88.2 million U.S. dollars) in Changshu in China’s southeastern province of Jiangsu to build a hydraulic brake factory..

The company said it will make Changshu its production center of the hydraulic brake system in East Asia.

Continental, a world-leading manufacturer of tires and brake systems, has become one of the top five international auto parts suppliers after acquiring Siemens VDO.

Working hours changed for better, cleaner traffic

The working hours in Beijing will change from July 20 for the next two months to ease traffic pressure on the roads in the run up to and during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Public institutions will open an hour later, at 9:30 am, and close at 5:30 pm, while working hours for companies will be between 9 am and 5 pm, says a Beijing municipal government notice, released on Saturday.

Shopping malls will open at 10 am and close at 10 pm or even later.

Schools, administrative bodies and essential service sectors are exempt from the changes.

The Beijing government encourages people to work online from home, if possible, to avoid commuting and adapt to flexible working hours for government bodies and companies.

The change, first suggested by Liu Guoxiang, a deputy to Beijing municipal people’s congress, last year, is aimed at reducing traffic congestion and pollution in the capital.

Home to more than 3 million vehicles, Beijing has urged people to use more public transport during the Olympics.

Taiwan’s China Airlines elects Wei chairman

Taiwan’s leading aircraft carrier China Airlines said Thursday its board had elected Philip Wei as the company chairman.

Wei, 66, who was chairman from November 2005 until he stepped down in October, replaces Ringo Chao, who resigned Monday after less than a year in the post.

Wei’s October resignation came two months after a China Airlines Boeing 737-800 burst into flames after landing in Okinawa, Japan. All of the passengers and crew evacuated the plane without serious injuries.

Local newspapers said the transport ministry — in effect the airline’s largest shareholder — hoped Wei would help the airline swing to profit.

“Regarding the company’s operation, we will centre on short-haul flights as the surging oil prices have especial negative impacts on long-haul flights,” Wei told reporters.

He vowed to further reform the company and continued to improve flight safety but said he was not mulling salary cuts or lay-offs.

The carrier early June cut its monthly flights by 10 percent to combat rising oil prices.

China Airlines posted a net loss of 2.97 billion Taiwan dollars (97.7 million US) for the first quarter to March.