Job Title: Localization Lead

Location: China

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:

RWS IP Services division: offers the highest-quality patent translations, a seamless patent filing experience and cutting-edge intellectual property (IP) search services. Firmly established as the world’s number one IP services company, we translate more than 220,000 legal, patent and IP related documents per year. With rigorous processes certified to ISO 9001, resources including PatBase and in-house search and subject-expert translation staff, supported by an extensive network of over 7,500 specialized translators and 43,000 crowd researchers, we are the preferred IP solutions partner for many major companies and law firms.

RWS Regulated Industries division: provides a full suite of language services exclusively for highly regulated industries such as Life Sciences, Healthcare, Financial services, and Legal industries. This includes language solutions for clinical trial management and linguistic validation of Clinical Outcomes Assessments (COAs), insurance, retail, commercial and investment banking, compliance, mergers & acquisitions and Litigation.

RWS Language Services division: recognised as the world’s largest Language Service Provider – helps customers to create, translate, and deliver content across 250+ languages. Our global team of linguists, project managers, subject matter experts and localization professionals work closely with customers to ensure their communications and multilingual content is compelling, accurate and consistent.

RWS Language & Content Technology division: offering the latest innovations in language and content management technology to help enterprises engage with global audiences – across any device. Our language technology enables enterprises to automate and manage the entire content lifecycle. And our web content and structured content management technology supports the creation, translation and delivery of global content at scale – in ways that are efficient, secure and compliant. The combination of our language and content technology – enhanced with state-of-the art Machine Learning – offers the capability to manage the ‘end-to-end’ translation supply chain.

RWS Group Technology: a shared service department that ensures we use technology to help make the wider RWS Group and Divisions more efficient, agile and secure. Their works falls under four categories: 

–Core Capabilities – these are the shared services that underpin all the divisional support we provide, such as networking, infrastructure, technology contract management, data and security.

–Customer Facing teams – manage the operations and support needed by our customers, including cloud hosting, professional services and customer support. 

–Divisional IT teams – focus on our business unit needs. 

–Product teams – drive the development and management of our technology products, so we continue to anticipate and keep up with ever-changing customer needs.

 

About The Role:

Assigns work to the team and suppliers

Communicates with the client

Can act as short term Project Manager backup excluding finance

Provides data for team and supplier performance evaluation

Defines localization tools and processes

 

Responsibilities:

Cooperating & Communicating with a management and engineering team

Communicating and cooperating with third parties – clients and suppliers

Flexibility to adjust working hours to handle clients/vendors in different time zones

Regularly status reporting to management team

Defining and preparing tools, processes

Defining support files

Processing, tracking, managing and archiving files with software tools

Supervising technical processes in terms of quality and productivity of the assigned team

Co-coordinating deliverable and changes, tracking status

Can work at home remotely

 

Requirements:

Previous working experience with corresponding responsibilities is required

Client facing communication experience

Coordinating a small team of 2-3 people is preferred

Advanced knowledge of major operating environments

Advanced knowledge of localization tools and processes

Advanced knowledge of file formats and file management

Advanced computer applications user

Motivated leader with a mature and positive attitude, reliable, well organized personality

Ability to communicate information to internal team, partners and customers

Advanced technical solution and problem solving skills

 

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. 

 

We are proud to work in a company where all can succeed and grow their career and while RWS operates in accordance with all local employment laws, if local law enables any form of discrimination this is against RWS company policy and we will adhere to the highest standard.  

Recruitment Agencies: RWS Group PLC does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward any unsolicited resumes to any RWS employees. Any unsolicited resume received will be treated as the property of RWS and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such resume will be considered null and void.