JOB TITLE

English-into-French Translator and Translation Project Manager

SALARY
£26,000 pa plus company benefits
+ Flexitime ( 37 hours a week)
Substantial discount on goods
5 weeks holiday
Family friendly policies
+ MANY more benefits

LOCATION
Basingstoke, Hampshire

THE COMPANY
The company is a market leader in home entertainment and electronics, employing well over 6,000 staff globally, and constantly expanding and innovative in its approach.

THE ROLE

To provide business with high quality technical and non-technical translations into French, and to manage projects for clients . The translations undertaken are for use by external customers and internal employees through the web, brochures, internal newsletters and advertisements.

There will be occasional travel to France.

DUTIES

•To translate technical and non technical documents into French for on-line and off-line use
•To manage external translators and freelance translators who undertake projects in different European and non-European languages
•To liaise with local proofreaders for correction of translated documents
•To use SDL workflow and SDLx as a Europe-wide translation tool
•To ensure that all feedback from proofreaders is recorded and reused
•To liaise with freelance translators, advising them of any style and terminology changes
•To maintain the in-house style guide together with other members of the French in-house team.
•To be the prime point of contact for the French subsidiary office
•To monitor the quality of the French sites and ensure that necessary action is taken

REQUIREMENTS
You must be a graduate from a translation school, or hold a translation MA
French to mother tongue standard essential
Previous commercial translation experience