Job Title: Associate Project Manager

Location: Spain or Czech Republic (REMOTE)

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

About The Role:

As an Associate Project Manager is a key member of a project team working on our Regulated Industries and Life Sciences division. The successful candidate may serve as a project lead, overlooking the successful completion of complex projects by working closely with internal teams as well as clients. Tasks may include but are not limited to client data management, project analysis and set up, scheduling, quote preparation, project file organization, placing tasks with linguists, and supporting linguists and technical teams with queries and trainings. An Associate Project Manager supports special initiatives such as the review, development, and implementation of new processes.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the larger and more complex projects for large Life Science clients.
• Results focused, taking care of: successful running of projects; client account growth; profitability of projects; client satisfaction, numbers and levels of quality issues; advancing technology solutions; and development of direct reports
• Communicate well with client contacts, local offices, freelancers and internal project team members
• Maintain processes and methodology to ensure project success and value added service to clients
• Ensure accurate compilation and approval of estimates and proposals for existing clients and potential new customers by complying to the sales process
• Plan projects through risk assessment planning, best process identification, implementation of best methodology and communication to project teams
• Closely monitor projects by the comprehensive and effective use of standardized server project folder structure and thorough filling of project assets and documentation, budgets, change orders, resource request forms, handover documents, status sheets, timely invoicing and payment tracking
• Produce project schedules and thereafter using internal tracking sheet to monitor activity and production
• Resolve client and project issues
• Assisting in conference calls with existing clients and potential new clients

Requirements:

• Comprehensive demonstrable experience e.g. 1+ years in similar project management role with experience in localization industry
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
• Solid organizational skills including meticulous attention to detail and multitasking skills
• Analytical and organized problem solving abilities
• Able to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Experience with CAT tools (Trados Studio)
• Preferred: Knowledge of Life Sciences indystry

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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