Job Title: Talent Manager

Location: Spain

 

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:

The Talent Manager provides a variety of services to manage the supply chain in order to optimize resource utilization, quality, and capacity that enable a talent pipeline to meet current and future business needs. Applies deep recruitment and resource management experience to a variety of projects and builds credibility with a range of stakeholder groups.

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

Operational Excellence

• Proactively assesses RWS capacity in all areas, collaborating with language offices (LO) and project management (PMO), to ensure the supply chain in actively supporting our company growth.
• Develops resources plans for specified campaigns and determines necessary resource mix to fulfill requirements (e.g., recruitment, contractor/freelancers).
• Monitors utilization of vendors to ensure balanced usage.
• Creates, analyzes, and monitors purchasing plans for his/her designated territory.

 

Delivers Quality, Value, and Results

• Conducts quality assessments and business reviews with vendors and freelancers to ensure the highest quality resources and appropriate agreements are developed/in place.
• Develops and strengthens relationships with talent sources to position RWS as an “employer of choice”. This includes working with universities/similar institutions to develop talent and promote RWS, vendor relationships, developing mutually beneficial relationship with freelancers.
• Leverages Social Media and other methods to promote RWS brand.
• Analyzes expenditures to validate and strengthen cost control strategies and influence the buying strategy.

 

Functional Excellence

• Based on comprehensive analysis of data, identifies and develops improvement to RWS policies, procedures, and tools to enhance the supply chain.
• May lead activities to better promote/educate the user community (e.g., language offices, project teams) on applicable policies, procedures, and tools.
• Plays an active role in implementing new practices and associated change management activities.
• Drives the effective use of the Vendor Database by developing standard instructional materials and/or providing hands-on instruction/training.

 

Relationship Building

• Builds strong internal relationships to understand short and long term resourcing needs and collaboratively develops sustainable supply chain strategies and methods.
• Cultivates external networks and relationships to position the RWS brand to increase and strengthen the overall supply chain.
• Builds credibility as a subject matter expert by providing insight to trends and new methods in managing the overall supply chain.

 

 

At times, a Talent Manager may perform select Talent Finding responsibilities as needed by the business.

 

Below is a list of common Talent Finding responsibilities:

 

• Sourcing candidates (e.g., contractors/freelancers, new employees)
• Advertising campaigns (e.g., to includes leveraging social media)
• Candidate tracking (e.g., leads, applications, interviews)
• Selection (e.g., reviewing CVs/applications, testing/evaluation)
• Hiring (e.g., offer coordination, rate negotiation, on-boarding, integration into project)
• Promoting RWS brand in market (e.g., events, networking, social media)
• Vendor/freelancer relationship building (e.g., promoting/encouraging freelancers to apply to RWS, developing knowledge of freelancer community, building mutually beneficial relationship with freelancers)

 

 

Skills and Competencies

 

• Successfully achieves results, diligently working to overcome obstacles to achieve goals.
• Relationship builders who are very self-aware, can inspire others, and can easily build relationships and interact with a wide variety of diverse people in a variety of situations.
• Demonstrates a positive and supportive outlook when interacting with others and performing his/her work.
• Follows processes, placing a priority on how things are done.
• Systematically and logically identifies and weighs options to resolve problems, generating solutions after reviewing all relevant information, including risks and the impact of potential solutions.
• Develops and applies appropriate strategies to gain the support of others.
• Demonstrates concern and takes action for meeting and exceeding their customer’s expectations and requirements.
• Constantly looks for opportunities to improve work processes and results.
• Clearly conveys information and ideas through a variety of media and in a manner that engages others, helping them understand and retain the message.
• Works collaboratively and uses a positive approach to achieve goals.
• Adaptable, curious individuals who experiment and can navigate the stress and discomfort of change.
• Demonstrates understanding of business concepts, strategy, structures and processes.
• Diligently completes responsibilities, producing high quality results.
• Examines data to grasp issues and draw conclusions.

 

 

Requirements:

 

• Typically requires at least a degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 3 - 5 years related experience.
• Advanced level of English is Mandatory.

 

 

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.

 

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.