Localization Lead #4381

Location: Colombia.                      

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

 

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.

 

About The Role:

Leads the technical part of localization projects, performs and coordinates the engineering work, coordinates the deliveries from the suppliers.

 

Responsibilities:

• Launch projects immediately after they come in and are confirmed by the Project Manager.
• Stay on top of Symfonie notifications and make sure vendor issues are sorted as quickly as possible.
• Flag issues to Project Manger/Vendor Relations Manager/Linguistic Service Manager as needed.
• Cooperates with the project manager on the technical preparation of the project, its execution and final evaluation.                                                           
• Coordinates and performs project engineering tasks, monitors tasks status and the performance of engineers.                                                           
• Assures the engineering work is being performed correctly, according to the project instructions, per deadlines and quality requirements.                                                          
• Analyses and tracks project tasks and deliverables.                                                       
• Coordinates the deliveries from the suppliers and monitors their status.
• Suggests and implements project engineering workflow and tools.
• Participates in the implementation of new tools, their testing and evaluation.                                
• Directly communicates with project team, support departments, partners and clients under the supervision of project manager or Senior Localization Lead.                                                     
• Performs final quality checks before delivery to the client.                                                           
• Documents internal processes and work instructions.                                                     
• Identifies risks and inefficiencies in engineering processes and suggests solutions                                                          

 

Requirements:

• Bachelor´s degree on translation or interest in IT, is preferred.
• Upper intermediate English.
• Great organization skills.
• Good written communication skills.
• A thorough eye for detail.
• Experience with Excel is required – does not need to be advanced.
• Experience with Smartling would be ideal but certainly not necessary.
• Client facing communication and team supplier coordination experience.

 

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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