Marketing Assistant

Location: Los Angeles (90015)

BYD in our downtown Los Angeles office seeks a qualified Marketing Assistant. 

Job brief:

BYD America is looking for a Marketing Assistant who combines passion and enthusiasm with incredible organization skills, administrative experience, and the ability to think outside the box. We’re a global company with a fairly new presence in the United States, so you’ll experience the stability and benefits of a multinational corporation with the energy and all-hands-on-deck style of a startup. We are exclusively B2B in the United States, focused on clean energy generation and storage, and electric vehicle applications. This position is full time at our office in Downtown Los Angeles.

Responsibilities:

·         Work directly with Event Management on all elements of tradeshow support, from booking and registrations to rentals and booth coordination.

·         Manage logistics and shipping needs for all company events.

·         Oversee printing and fabrication of new marketing materials.

·         Customize company PowerPoint presentations for specific uses.

·         General administrative support including scheduling, managing purchases and coordinating with outside vendors.

·         Manage Marketing Department calendar.

·         Track inventory of marketing materials.

·         Opportunity to grow into project management, content creation, graphic design and digital marketing, depending on strengths and interests.

·         Potential to travel to manage company events and tradeshows.

Requirements:

·         Bachelor’s Degree in any field.

·         Minimum 1 year administrative experience.

·         Exceptionally organized and detail oriented.

·         Excellent multi-tasking and time management skills.

·         Strong Microsoft Office Suite skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint.

·         An “up for anything,” can-do mentality.

·         Diplomatic, good with people, able to manage expectations.

Other Valuable Skills a plus:

·         Basic to intermediate knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.

·         Experience in shipping and logistics coordination.

·         Strong writing skills.

·         Experience in Email Marketing Services such as Constant Contact, MailChimp.

·         Experience with WordPress.

About Us:

BYD Motors (“BYD”) is a California-based electric vehicle manufacturing company and a wholly owned subsidiary of BYD Company Ltd., the largest electric vehicle manufacturer in China and largest electric bus manufacturer in the world. BYD Company Ltd. is publicly traded on the Hong Kong stock exchange (1211.HKE), with approximately 60% of its stock owned by North American investors. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is the single largest investor in BYD Company Ltd.

BYD is deeply passionate about helping transportation and energy grids around the world become greener and more sustainable through the use of cutting edge battery-electric technology. BYD invented an industry-leading rechargeable battery that is safe, stable, environmentally friendly, and longer lasting than any other competing product on the market today. BYD is developing and marketing around the world a family of zero-emission battery-electric cars, trucks, buses, forklifts, and energy storage systems all built around this revolutionary, environmentally-sound battery technology.

Today, BYD has over 800 employees spread out across it's headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles, our manufacturing plant in Lancaster, CA, and offices throughout California and the United States.