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:

We are looking for a Team Lead to join one of our amazing Vendor Relations Management teams to oversee the appropriate supplier strategy for our client, a major global player in e-commerce and technology. Our business partners are both translation agencies and freelance translators, and a crucial part of this role is to assure their availability, high quality of service and competitive pricing. At the same time, we need to coordinate our activities with other internal and external teams participating on the project, so big picture perspective is needed. This is a strategic role, perfect for an experienced professional who enjoys complex tasks in communication, organization, and coordination.

Responsibilities: 

•    Focus on effective cooperation with other teams involved in the project to achieve high level of service for our client
•    Support all team members in creating the overall vendor strategy 
•    Train new team members, as well as motivate, guide and guarantee process knowledge of the team
•    Operational management – plan & oversee financial results, suggest and execute cost improvement strategies
•    Suggest potential automation, improvement, and tools needed to increase overall efficiency
•    Support team members in client and/or production escalations
•    Track performance of each team member
•    Step in recruitment/sourcing matters when needed and when there is shortage of capacity in the team
•    Monitor market trends and incorporate them into the team’s routine 

Requirements:

•    This is a senior position, so at least 4 years of vendor management, supply chain development or management experience is expected
•    Experience in localization is a big plus, but we can teach you the specifics of this field if you don’t have it, so you only need the will to learn
•    Advanced written and spoken English
•    Strong communication and negotiation skills
•    Organized personality with strong ability to prioritize
•    Good knowledge of MS Office, with special focus on Excel 
•    Tech-savviness is welcome, since we are always striving for process improvements and the increase of effectiveness via new tools and solutions

What we have for you: 

•    An exciting company — we work with some of the most innovative brands in the world, and our employees are true professionals with unique skills.
•    A great team of people who are fair, open-minded, and friendly — and always ready to support you as much as possible.
•    International, English-speaking environment and pleasant offices in the center of Brno or remote cooperation.
•    Interesting challenges, trainings, and other internal opportunities to support your growth.
•    Fair compensation, bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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.
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.