Marketing & Business Assistant Industrial Placement 2022

At Imagination, we love innovating. We spend our time creating the graphics and AI chips that are at the core of your favourite electronic products, and we are expanding our IP portfolio to include RISC-V CPUs as part of our efforts to create the best Compute offering in the market. We have a no-compromise approach to making our technology as high performance and power-efficient as possible, all while being squeezed into the smallest space possible.

It’s this relentless drive to push the boundaries of what’s possible that has led to Imagination powering more than 10 billion of the world’s most iconic electronic devices, from smartphones to smart TVs, from drones to self-driving cars.

We need your skills to help us continue to deliver technology that will impress the industry and our customers alike, ensuring that people everywhere can enjoy smarter and faster tech than ever before.

Hybrid Working Model

Imagination Technologies operates a hybrid working model globally that allows our employees to split their time between attending the workplace and working remotely.

What you’ll be doing

Our objective is to enable teachers to teach, and students to learn, with our technologies. Our primary audience are teachers in Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Gaming, in a market of around 6000 Universities worldwide.

You will

• Be part of a team promoting semiconductor technology that is used in billions of products worldwide
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the IUP - these include website, logistics & stock, budgeting and teaching material development projects
• Set up, manage and host online & offline events – including presentations, conferences, symposiums, training workshops and webinars
• Liaise with different parties to coordinate logistics, promotions and solve issues ahead of each event
• Assist the Marketing Communications Team in understanding and exploiting Chinese social media and assisting in generating social media content
• Maintain existing stakeholder relationships, and forge new relationships with support services and universities, especially in China
• Lead the hiring process of your successor, then provide a smooth transition for your successor through good documentation of processes and systems, and hands-on training to enable them to get started quickly

Who you are

Committed to making your customers, stakeholders and colleagues successful, you’re an excellent communicator, listener and collaborator who builds trusted partnerships by delivering what you say, when you say. You’re curious, solutions orientated and a world-class problem solver who constantly seeks opportunities to innovate and achieve the best possible outcome to the highest imaginable standard.

You are

• Probably studying a combination of Marketing, Business, Management, Consultancy, Analysis, or Innovation
• Perhaps you are an Engineer or Computer Scientist with a keen interest in Marketing and Business
• At undergraduate or master’s level
• Available for a full-year’s placement starting around June 2022, with the placement as part of your course
• On a Student Visa for a course where a placement is a required part of the course, or holding an UK/Irish passport

You have

• Fluency in Mandarin Chinese
• Clear written and spoken English
• A growing level of time management and project management skills
• The ability to work independently and be a good team player
• Competence with MS Office, especially Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• A “can do” problem-solving attitude
• An eye for detail
• A strong motivation to become a well-rounded professional who seizes new projects and training opportunities

You might also have

• Ambition and passion to succeed
• Experience with social media, video editing, html development, image/photo/video creation
• Website management skills
• An interest in the academic market
• Ambitions to create your own start-up

Who do you want to be?

Do you dare to think big? Do you want to change the status quo and speak up when you see how there’s a better way of doing things? We listen, we’re supportive and we’re open to new ideas. Whatever it takes to make an impact, you’ll be respected and helped along the way.

We will value you

At Imagination, clear and shared values are important to us. They are the foundation on which everything else is built. We have five core values that underpin our culture and the way we work together, both as colleagues and as business partners. We believe in these values and are committed to putting them at the heart of everything we do.

Our values are:

• Customer-first
• Collaborative
• Committed
• Innovative
• Straightforward

Diversity and inclusion

Our headquarters are based in the UK, but we have a global outlook. We have office locations around the world to attract the most talented technical minds and to support key regional markets in the best way possible. Across our divisions, we employ specialists from over 40 nationalities who are passionate about their craft and the industry we’re in.

We are committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic by law. If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a positive interview experience, please let us know.