IP Services - Junior Translation Project Manager

Location:      Chalfont Saint Peter - UK.         

About RWS:

RWS Holdings plc is a unique world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property services. Through content transformation and multilingual data analysis, our unique combination of technology and cultural expertise helps our clients to grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language. Our purpose is unlocking global understanding. By combining cultural understanding, client understanding and technical understanding, our services and technology assist our clients to acquire and retain customers, deliver engaging user experiences, maintain compliance and gain actionable insights into their data and content. Our clients include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and 19 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America.  We work in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from 80+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

About The Role:

The IP Services Translation Project Manager will be part of our IP Operations team at our Head Office in Chalfont St Peter, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. Working as part of a team, the IP Translation Project Manager will be responsible for the management of translation projects in the most efficient manner, always focusing on delivering excellent quality, within budget, on time and in line with the requirements of clients and patent offices.

This role requires good understanding of translation technologies and the ability to incorporate them within each project to improve efficiency and guarantee cost-effectiveness. Planning and problem-solving skills are paramount. Effective communications with the Customer Operations Team, the Validation Team, the Language Technology Team, and the Translation Operations Team will be key.

Responsibilities:

• Work cross-departmentally across the division to ensure that each translation project is executed to the standards expected by our clients
• Plan and manage translation projects end to end in the most efficient and cost-effective manner
• Assume full ownership of the translation projects and coordinate all parties involved
• Swift resolution of problems
• Set and manage the translation budget for each project to meet the target profit margins
• Use translation technologies and locate them at the centre of the translation projects
• Use IPSOS to manage and prioritise the workload
• Contribute to the development of new processes
• Update the WIP values in Agresso

Requirements:

• Ability to work under pressure and experience of workload prioritisation
• Ability to multi-task
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to think outside the box
• Ability to problem solve
• Ability to lead and guide all project stakeholders
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Knowledge of another language to A level proficiency or above would be an advantage.

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.

RWS embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.

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