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Senior Business Development Manager (mkt371sh)

Senior Business Development Manager

-Shanghai, China

The selected candidate will be responsible for
-Source licensing or acquisition target according to company pipeline objectives.
-Perform market research, analyze commercial potential, design marketing strategy and build financial model, draft partnership proposal, participate contract negotiation for various in-licensing products.
-Manage communication with multiple functions include finance, marketing and sales, trade and legal during deal closing.
-Represent the company
to attend international conferences, develop business development network and build company brand image.

Qualification:
-Master degree, with a minimum 5 years BD experiences is required.MBA degree is a plus.
-Consultanting and/or financial experience is a plus
-Outstanding financial modeling skill.

* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_mkt371sh@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
* In the email subject please include the position name and job #

China’s banking regulator denies regulating bankers’ pay

BEIJING, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) — China’s banking regulator told Xinhua Thursday night it does not place limits on the pay of the country’s commercial banks’ top executives.

The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) said it noted that some of the country’s media reported the CBRC was drafting a document to regulate the pay of bankers from commercial banks.

Every country was trying to correct the improper incentive mechanism to curb excessive risk-taking which sparked the current financial crisis, said the CBRC.

“The CBRC has been working with other relative departments on improving the wage incentive mechanism for the country’s banking industry since last year,” an official from the CBRC, who declined to be named, said in response to the media reports.

“The aim was to introduce scientific guidelines on incentive mechanism by integrating executives’ pay and operation risks,” said the spokesman, adding the CBRC is not directly responsible for regulating bankers’ remuneration.

Detailed pay setting should be determined by individual financial institutions, according to the official.

Young foreigners hunt jobs in China amid crisis

BEIJING — When the best job Mikala Reasbeck could find after college in Boston was counting pills part-time in a drugstore for $7 an hour, she took the drastic step of jumping on a plane to Beijing in February to look for work.

A week after she started looking, the 23-year-old from Wheeling, West Virginia, had a full-time job teaching English.

“I applied for jobs all over the U.S. There just weren’t any,” said Reasbeck, who speaks no Chinese but had volunteered at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In China, she said, “the jobs are so easy to find. And there are so many.”

Young foreigners like Reasbeck are coming to China to look for work in its unfamiliar but less bleak economy, driven by the worst job markets in decades in the United States, Europe and some Asian countries.

Many do basic work such as teaching English, a service in demand from Chinese businesspeople and students. But a growing number are arriving with skills and experience in computers, finance and other fields.

“China is really the land of opportunity now, compared to their home countries,” said Chris Watkins, manager for China and Hong Kong of MRI China Group, a headhunting firm. “This includes college graduates as well as maybe more established businesspeople, entrepreneurs and executives from companies around the world.”

Watkins said the number of resumes his company receives from abroad has tripled over the past 18 months.

China’s job market has been propped up by Beijing’s 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus, which helped to boost growth to 7.9 percent from a year earlier in the quarter that ended June 30, up from 6.1 percent the previous quarter. The government says millions of jobs will be created this year, though as many as 12 million job-seekers still will be unable to find work.

Andrew Carr, a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate, saw China as a safer alternative after classmates’ offers of Wall Street jobs were withdrawn due to the economic turmoil.

Passing up opportunities in New York, San Francisco and Boston, Carr started work in August at bangyibang.com, a Web site in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen that lets the public or companies advertise and pay for help in carrying out business research, getting into schools, finding people and other tasks.

“I noticed the turn the economy was taking, and decided it would be best to go directly to China,” said Carr, who studied Chinese for eight years.

Most of his classmates stayed in the United States and have taken some unusual jobs — one as a fishing guide in Alaska.

China can be more accessible to job hunters than economies where getting work permits is harder, such as Russia and some European Union countries.

Employers need government permission to hire foreigners, but authorities promise an answer within 15 working days, compared with a wait of months or longer that might be required in some other countries. An employer has to explain why it needs to hire a foreigner instead of a Chinese national, but the government says it gives special consideration to people with technical or management skills.

Rules were tightened ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, apparently to keep out possible protesters. That forced some foreign workers to leave as their visas expired.

Some 217,000 foreigners held work permits at the end of 2008, up from 210,000 a year earlier, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Thousands more use temporary business visas and go abroad regularly to renew them.

Reasbeck said it took her two months to find the drugstore job after she graduated from Boston’s Emerson College with a degree in writing, literature and publishing. She said she applied to as many as 50 employers nationwide.

Today, on top of her teaching job, she works part-time recruiting other native English-speaking teachers. She makes 14,000 to 16,000 yuan ($2,000 to $2,300) a month.

“I could have a pretty comfortable life here on not a very high salary. English teachers are in high demand,” she said.

Reasbeck said most of her college classmates are in part-time jobs or unemployed.

“People are sleeping on their mom’s couches, as far as I know,” she said.

While many jobs require at least a smattering of Chinese, some employers that need other skills are hiring people who do not speak the language.

Bangyibang.com’s founder and CEO, Grant Yu, has five foreign employees in his 35-member work force. Yu plans to add more and said he might hire applicants who cannot speak Chinese if they have other skills.

“I don’t believe language is the biggest obstacle in communication, as long as he or she has a strong learning ability,” Yu said.

Feng Li, a partner in a Chinese-Canadian private fund in Beijing that invests in the mining industry, said he needs native speakers of foreign languages to read legal documents and communicate with clients abroad. He plans to recruit up to six foreign employees.

“We don’t need Chinese guys who speak English like me,” Feng said.

Some foreigners see China not just as a refuge but as a source of opportunities they might not get at home.

“Having one or two years on your resume of China experiences is only going to help you back at headquarters in the United States or if you apply for business schools,” said Shaun Rein, managing director of China Market Research Group in Shanghai.

A 28-year-old former London banker took a job a year ago with a Chinese private equity firm after the crisis devastated his industry at home. He said that even though he spoke no Chinese, his experience and contacts made him a sought-after asset in China, a market that he said offers “a much faster route to a top-level position.”

“I actually earn more out here,” said the banker, who asked not to be identified by name at his Chinese employer’s request. “And the hours are much shorter.”

Konstantin Schamber, a 27-year-old German, passed up possible jobs at home to become business manager for a Beijing law firm, where he is the only foreign employee.

“I believe China is the same place as the United States used to be in the 1930s that attracts a lot of people who’d like to have either money or career opportunities,” Schamber said.

Job hunters from other Asian countries also are looking to China.

An Kwang-jin, a 30-year-old South Korean photographer, has worked as a freelancer for a year in the eastern city of Qingdao. He said China offered more opportunities as South Korea struggles with a sluggish economy.

Still, foreigners will face more competition from a rising number of educated, English-speaking young Chinese, some of them returning from the West with work experience, Rein said.

“You have a lot of Chinese from top universities who are making $500-$600 a month,” Rein said. “Making a case that you are much better than they are is very hard.”

Plant Manager (eo229nc)

Job Title: Plant Manager

Report To: Head of Operation China

Location: Nanchang

Company Introduction:

Our customer is a leading global producer of industrial minerals, founded in Switzerland and has more than 100 locations in many countries. It mainly fillers and pigments derived from calcium carbonate and dolomite, and a worldwide distributor of chemical products and the major markets are the paper, plastics, paint/coatings/adhesives industries as well as construction, environment and so on.

Job Description:

The job holder will be in charge of overall management and supervision of the Plant to ensure both production and manufacturing process to be running efficiently and cost effectively, to comply with safety regulations and quality standards and product on-time delivery;

Responsibilities:

1. Manage the plant operations from raw material management through to final product, process improvements and maintenance function, in order to achieve the production of consistent quality products suitable for the market;

2. Oversee the Plant’s manufacturing operations including production plan, workflow, quality control system, delivery schedule, supplier, worker management, etc;

3. Responsible for the overall budget, P & L planning and results;

4. Lead products & manufacturing process to comply with safety standards & environmental system (ISO14000);

5. Analyze the workflow systematically and produce appropriate reports to improve the cost and efficiency;

6. Research, evaluate, and recommend investments in technology, equipment, systems;

7. Monitor and oversee the plant’s facilities, equipments and other assets;

8. Drive for continuous improvement for operation manufacturing cost, KPI, quality, lead-time, process capability etc;

9. To lead and provide management and technical expertise in maximizing production efficiency and maintain high quality of service at all time to make sure our final products timely delivered to customers;

10. Deal with Government officials in China related to customs, tax and labor issues;

11. Liaise with different departments to ensure efficient production and on-time shipment to customers.

Qualifications:

1. BS in technical component (Chemical, Mechanical or Electrical engineering)

2. Extensive experience in manufacturing and in a senior management position for a similar business/industry (8 to10 year’s min.)

3. Significant calcium carbonate manufacturing knowledge as well as advanced interpersonal and supervisory skills;

4. Ability to find solutions and achieve objectives and drive to completion;

5. Ability or experience to manage projects and motivate operations team;

6. Ability to combine big picture with detail required to progress;

7. Excellent organizational and planning skill – Proactive problem solver;

8. High level communication skills;

9. Self motivator;

10. Team player, excellent interpersonal skills and understanding of different cultures / work environments;

11. Good command of English both in oral and written is a MUST.

* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_eo229nc@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
* In the email subject please include the position name and job #

General Manager (eo228bj)

Position: General Manager
Report: Vice President (US based)

Position Summary:

Our client is an educational travel company with offices in Boston, San Diego, Toronto, Quebec City, Merida (Mexico), London, and Nanjing (China). Today, our client conducts worldwide educational tours for North American high school students and their teachers. Our trusted, experienced tours to Europe, Latin and South America, Asia, Africa, the South Pacific, the United States, and Canada create once-in-a-lifetime experiences, showing students that foreign language, history, literature, science and the arts don’t have to stay in the classroom.

Our client is expanding its business in China and is looking for a dynamic individual to help build and drive its new business – Chinese outbound worldwide Teacher-led Student group tours.

The position is based in Beijing and will require domestic and some international travel.
The General Manager works with our client’s executives (based in Boston Headquarters) to develop and execute the Business Plan to achieve financial and growth objectives.

Functions

General Management
Assist the Vice President with the:
• Preparation and implementation of budget and 3-year-plan, country strategy, business plan and business management.
• Development of product portfolio and investment plan.
• Provide regular updates to the executive team on the progress of the program.
• Support Monthly Operating Review (MOR) for headquarters.

Marketing and Sales
• Propose budget and sales programs to meet or exceed financial goals.
• Compile market general data and trends and business analysis.
• Hire, train, manage and develop the Sales Force to meet/exceed Sales goals.

Sales Programs (go to market strategy)
• Assess the market; define and implement the market-entry strategy.
• Develop Channel Strategies working with Chinese Agents, Educational Companies, Governmental entities, and Schools.
• Determine best path forward and implement each strategy.

People Management
• Determine roles required to help the organization be successful.
• Develop position descriptions and appropriate compensation levels for the positions.
• Attract strong performers into the organization.
• Once staff is hired, mentor and coach staff to ensure the success of the organization.

Finance, Controlling and Reporting
• Develop and manage annual budget for the organization. Ensure that costs are held within budget.
• Provide monthly reporting to Headquarters finance group.

Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in business administration, engineering, or equivalent long-standing, successful work experience combined with excellent sales and marketing knowledge
• Based in Beijing (no relocation package offered)
• Chinese Mandarin, and fluent English required
• Some travel within China and to the United States and Europe
• 10 years of practical sales experience including 5 years managerial responsibility
• Familiarity with the student travel market, distribution channels and competitors
• Knowledge of both Chinese and American Educational System
• Analytical, conceptual, strategic and planning abilities
• Convincing personality, natural authority
• A self-assured leader with excellent communication skills
• Positive thinker
• Performance and bottom-line orientation
• Flexibility, ability to work under pressure, and a prevailingattitude
• Loyal and willing to integrate into the corporate culture
• Team player

Interested and qualified candidates should address their CVs, in English, to topjob_eo228bj@dacare.com

China’s seven golden industries in 2010

Zhaopin.com and cn.yahoo.com have sponsored human resource experts to analyze China’s job market in 2010 on the basis of trends in China’s economic development. Job hunters may wish to use this as a reference.

Position: On-site interpreter

Annual salary: 400,000 yuan

On-site interpreters have been labeled as the most desirable professional in the 21st century. As China adopts more international standards, economic exchanges with the outside world and international activities in China are increasing. This has resulted in an urgent demand for more on-site interpreters.

An on-site interpreter’s salary depends on their work hours. Typical pay is 4,000—8,000 yuan per hour. According to information, an increasing number of large foreign enterprises will set up branches in China and Beijing in the next 4 years, and on-site interpreters will enjoy steadily increasing salaries.

Position: logistics engineer

Annual salary: 100,000 yuan at present

According to statistics released by relevant Chinese institutions, demand for logistics personnel is expanding sharply. At present, China faces a shortage of 6 million logistics personnel. Statistics also show that many logistics engineers were previously engaged in other work and very few have received professional training.

At present, only 21 percent of China’s logistics professionals have university education. According to information, Shell Group offers between 6,000 and 8,000 yuan per month to fresh graduates the company employs in China.

Reporters learned that the industry will grow significantly in the next year. “At present, the basic annual salary of a logistics professional is 70,000 yuan. As the world’s energy resources are shrinking, relevant Chinese professionals may receive higher salaries in four years.”

Position: Environmental engineer

Annual salary: 80,000 — 100,000 yuan

Statistics show that there are only 130,000 people specializing in environmental protection in China, including 80,000 technicians. Judging from the number of environmental protection personnel in developed countries, China now needs 420,000 environmental engineers.

According to industry experts, the monthly salary of a park or garden designer, or a landscape gardener is about 7,000—8,000 yuan. With the development of China’s real estate industry, the annual income of an environmental engineer will reach between 80,000 and 100,000 yuan next year.

Position: 3G engineer

Annual Salary: from 150,000 — 200,000 yuan

According to statistics released by CCW Research, China has a shortage of more than 500,000 3G professionals.

Due to the serious shortage of 3G personnel, the basic annual salary of a 3G engineer will reach between 150,000 and 200,000 yuan in 4 years.

According to Kong.net, some trends indicate that the annual salary of personnel specializing in wireless value-added services who have 2.5G technology skills is about 100,000 yuan. The salary of these individuals will certainly increase when the actual deployment of 3G technology becomes a reality.

Position: Network media professional

Annual salary: 100,000 — 120,000 yuan

Industry experts revealed that the monthly salary for a website editor currently stands at about 5,000 yuan while the salary for a manager is between 8,000 and 10,000 yuan.

“When the network media industry is able to reap a higher advertising revenue in four years time, the salary of relevant professionals will inevitably rise.” This editor is quite confident about this industry.

According to this editor’s estimation, the annual income for a network media professional should reach between 100,000 and 120,000 yuan in the future.

Position: Network architect

Annual salary: 100,000 — 200,000 yuan

According to zhaopin.com, the basic annual salary for a network architect who has just graduated from university and has no social experience is 80,000 yuan.

As Chinese consumers demand better network architecture services ranging from network construction to network use, and advice on work flow and resource strategy, network architects will earn more in the future.

Position: Actuary

Annual salary: 120,000 — 150,000 yuan

According to statistics released by relevant Chinese institutions, less than 10 Chinese actuaries have been accredited by the international insurance community.

Hong Kong’s unemployment unchanged at 5.4 per cent

HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s unemployment was unchanged at 5.4 percent between June and August this year, official data showed Thursday, as economic uncertainty meant employers remained cautious about hiring.

The seasonally adjusted rate has remained the same since the April-June period.

The number of jobless increased by around 3,000 to 216,800 in the three months ending August from the May-July period, while the workforce declined by around 6,900 to 3,712,000, according to the Census and Statistics Department.

The near-term outlook will depend a lot on the pace of job creation in the economy relative to that in the labour supply, Matthew Cheung, Secretary for Labour and Welfare, said in a statement.

‘As the pace of business growth remains uncertain, employers are generally cautious in hiring new hands at this point in time,’ he said.

‘Coupled with the relatively slow absorption of newcomers, including fresh graduates and school leavers into the labour market this year, the unemployment rate is expected to remain high in the near term.’

China’s SOEs’ executives’ salaries to be regulated

China announced Wednesday a guideline to regulate salaries for executives in the country’s 135 centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs).

The document was jointly issued by six administrative departments of China’s central government, including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Ministry of Finance, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and National Audit Office (NAO).

The document set guidelines in salary structure and payment, position-related consumption, and supervision and management, in a bid to establish and perfect incentive and restraint mechanisms regulating SOE executives’ salaries.

The annual salaries structure for SOE executives is composed of basic salary, pay-for-performance, and incentive earnings in the mid and long term, according to the guideline.

It stipulates pay-for-performance of executives should be based on the enterprises’ business performance.

The annual salaries of executives should be in line with those for employees in the previous year, in a bid to narrow disparity between executives’ and employees’, the guideline said.

Departments, including the NAO and the Ministry of Supervision, will be required to monitor the implementation of the regulations, and to undertake punitive measures in the event of irregularity.

Project Supervisor (eo227cx)

Job Title: Project Supervisor

Report To: Production Manager

Located in: Changxing

Company Introduction:

Our customer is a leading global producer of industrial minerals, founded in Switzerland and has more than 100 locations in many countries. It mainly fillers and pigments derived from calcium carbonate and dolomite, and a worldwide distributor of chemical products and the major markets are the paper, plastics, paint/coatings/adhesives industries as well as construction, environment and so on.

Job Description:

The job role mainly provides operational process support for plant production to ensure it run smoothly, improve plant efficiency, quality and consistency;

Responsibilities:

1. Provide technical support and operational process proposal to production manager in order to ensure the efficient and effective operational process of the plants;

2. Take lead for new plant commissioning, ensuring full cover available and be actively involved in preparation of P&ID’s, formally sign off for each new plant/process;

3. Support RAP Engineering Hub for equipment specification and ensure it is fully communicated with process development; Meet agreed process specifications for all new operations with equipment installed in time;

4. In close cooperation with team, support plant for production tests and optimization;

5. Carry out plant and process audits, file reports and follow up on corrective actions;

6. Propose?manage process improvements and carry out process evaluation as agreed with Local Management and Head of Engineering Hub;

7. Implement and record operational-KPI’s Dry, propose areas for further efficiency Improvements;

8. Collect and process operational datas to enable continuous improvement;

9. Compile and maintain production data for current operations;

10. Be always in accordance with safety and environmental regulations.

Qualifications:

1. Tertiary education in technical component (Chemical, Mechanical or Electrical engineering)

2. About 8-10 yrs experience in manufacturing and in a project / production supervisor position;

3. Ability to find solutions and achieve objectives and drive to completion

4. Ability or experience to manage projects and motivate operations team

5. Excellent organizational and planning skill – Proactive problem solver

6. High level communication skills

7. Self motivator

8. Team player, excellent interpersonal skills and understanding of different cultures / work environments

9. Good command of English both in oral and written is a MUST

* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_eo227cx@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
* In the email subject please include the position name and job #

Firms face huge shortage of labor

As job opportunities increase for migrant workers, companies are finding it hard to hire more workers they need. In addition, some migrant workers have chosen to stay home to develop new careers.

About 40 companies were on hand at a job fair in Zhuhai. In a complete turnaround from the past, many companies are feeling great pressure to hire enough workers.

Yuan Weiying, Zhuhai Fine Union FPC Co. said “We are short by 100 workers now. It’s hard to hire a worker. We sent out a lot of hiring information to some places, but we are still unable to find one. Our current workers can not meet the production requirements.”

Some companies began to show signs of an economic rebound with an increase of orders as of July. This triggered a greater demand for labor. A significant shortage of workers emerged in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions. Statistics show that the shortage of workers in Chongqing city has exceeded 30,000.

One employer said “In the past, 20 to 30 people would immediately reply as soon as we posted hiring information. But now, there is no one. We needed to hire 10 to 20 workers this time, but we only hired one person.”

Because of the economic rebound, company job postings have jumped by 20 percent from the same period last year. The workers’ wages have also gone up by 10 percent.

When the crisis hit last year, a lot of migrant workers from Liaoning province returned home following a reduction to their income. Most of them attended local training. A year later, about 60 percent of migrant workers in the province were re-employed at home, with some even starting their own businesses.

Wang Junjie, Manager of Shenyang Fulanerte Garment Factory said “Our income shrank a lot because of the global financial crisis. So I decided to come back to create my own business. With the help of my friend, I took part in a technician training class. I learned a lot from the class. Later, I found a small-sized processing factory.”

Since the crisis erupted, the local government in Liaoning province set up training classes to help workers upgrade their knowledge and skills. So far, about 170,000 workers have accepted training throughout the province.