The Intern Group
The Intern Group is an award-winning social enterprise that takes top applicants and significantly improves their skills and employability via our international internship programs. We provide internship programs and learning opportunities that combine professional experience with cultural immersion across the world. Our office locations include London, New York, Hong Kong, Madrid, Colombia, Toronto, Madrid, Dublin, Shanghai, Tokyo, Australia and Chicago, and we are expanding every year.
The role
As the Placements and Partnerships Manager you will be responsible for making sure that all placement and business development activities are managed successfully across our operational locations in the Asia Pacific and the Middle East. The successful candidate will manage a team based in Hong Kong, but all team members will be working and communicating with our business partners and programme participants across the world.
If you are a professional, target driven and analytical person who enjoys speaking with people from all walks of life. This will be the most rewarding job opportunity you would come across.
Office Location: Hong Kong
Key Responsibilities:
- Create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture; motivate team members, ensure team members fully respect our company values
- Set clear team goals and KPIs for the team, recognize high performance and reward accomplishments
- Oversee day-to-day operation of all Business Development and Placement Coordinators and provide supports
- Facilitate and ensure effective communications between different teams and among the team
- Active participation in regional and company-wide projects
- Hiring and training for any new team members
- Planning and Training on partnership acquisition targets, strategies, and execution
- Create/maintain reports on Partnerships acquisitions, placements
- Ensure standardised scalable and efficient partnership managements, eg.company outreach, communications, relationship maintenance, etc
- Ensure on-time delivery of best placements matches between our participants and company partners
- Training for participants’ company interviews
- Ensure high quality internship programme delivered by our partner companies
Requirements:
- Experience in managerial roles, customer service, marketing, and events is strongly preferred
- Target driven, excellent organizational, data and people management skills
- Share similar values with The Intern Group: People focused, Continuous Learning, Teamwork, Global Leadership
- Fluent English, extra Asian/Middle Eastern language is preferred
- Stellar communication skills, both written and verbal
- The ability to practice cultural sensitivity & engage with people from all around the world.
- Effective problem solving & conflict resolution skills
- Innovative, proactive, visioned and able to locate and tackle issues.
- Adaptable personality to an ever-changing workflow. Ability to work under high pressure.
- Charismatic, approachable and respectful.
- The right to work in Hong Kong