Job Title: Senior Associate Language Specialist

 

Location: Greece – remote working for the Athens Language Delivery Team

About RWS:

RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.

Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

For further information, please visit: www.rws.com

RWS Division:

The Greek Language Delivery Team is based in Greece and takes care of all RWS projects towards Greek from several source languages.

 

About The Role:

RWS Greece is currently looking for 1 full-time native Greek Senior Associate Language Specialist to add to its in house Life science team for EN>EL projects. Full-time contract.

 

 

Responsibilities:

Provides quality and accurate translations that contribute to the overall success of the project and client satisfaction. Works on translations and admin projects of increasing complexity, requiring proficiency in translation tools and processes. Demonstrates a strong focus on quality and client satisfaction by effectively understanding and applying quality standards to all deliverables. Able to apply theories, concepts, principles, and methodologies to difficult but conventional assignments. Assignments are given in terms of objectives to be met. Works independently within an established framework.

 

 

Requirements:

• Education: at least a University degree in Translation or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience: Typically requires minimum of 2 - 3 years related experience

• Main working language: English (a second language would be preferable too)

• Technical competence: Independent Trados Studio user
• Past or current experience as Project Manager in LSP or agencies are relevant
• Life science domain competence: ability to understand content produced in the source language and to reproduce it in the target language using the appropriate style and terminology
• Knowledge of the Regulatory Labeling content is an added value
• Attention to Quality and Detail
• Follows processes, placing a priority on how things are done
• Critical thinkers who learn and adapt to the acquisition of new knowledge with ease
• Written Communication: expresses ideas clearly in email, reports, letters and other documents
• Linguistic and textual competence in the source language and the target language: ability to understand the source language, fluency in the target language, and general or specialized knowledge of text-type conventions
• Competence in research, information acquisition, and processing
• Cultural competence

 

Life at RWS - We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism and determination to never let others down drives  us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch 
 As a company focused on connecting people through language, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our company culture. RWS is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed in ensuring that all employees work in an environment free from all forms of harassment and discrimination and one that actively promotes teamwork, diversity and trust. All employees have a right to be treated with respect and dignity. RWS operate in a manner for the inclusion of all - any form of discrimination is expressly prohibited. Employees are selected and promoted on merit alone and no other factors whether race, gender, age, religion, marital status, gender identity or disability are taken into consideration. 
 

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