Back to search.Language Recruitment Services - Translation Project Manager – Team Leader with any language
| Employment Type: | Permanent |
| Location: | Central London - London, United Kingdom |
| Salary: | Excellent |
| Languages: | English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Flemish, Greek, Czech, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Swiss German |
| Required Languages: | 1 |
Advertiser Details
- Name:Language Recruitment Services
- Posted:13-02-2012
- Code:NH011554
Job Title: Translation Project Manager – Team Leader with any language
Contract: Permanent
Location: Central London
Job Ref: NH011554
Salary: Excellent
My client is urgently seeking talented individuals with solid experience in the translation industry and with great enthusiasm to join a large and busy team. You will be working in a driven and multi cultural environment where meeting the client's requirements is your number one priority.
As Team Leader of a number of Translation Project Managers working on different accounts, the primary focus of your work will be ensuring that projects are managed efficiently by the team - acting as the main contact person between internal and external clients and major vendors, you will be responsible for managing complex projects as well as specific production teams of up to ten Translation Project Coordinators as well as freelancers, and communicating detailed specific instructions to vendors and managing various processes. You will also be accountable for the final quality assurance of translations as well as accurate recording of activities.
Responsibilities:
-Manage workload and allocate tasks and instructions evenly to the team
-Supervising Translation Co-ordinators, monitoring and assigning admin tasks to them and ensuring that all Quality Checks have been carried out
-Responsibility for managing several major client accounts and organising production-related meetings
-Create and developing translations tools used for these accounts (Translation memories, glossaries style guides, etc.) and developing efficient workflows
-Supporting other members of the team in translation estimate analysis and preparation.
-Select and assign translation teams, negotiate rates and deadlines and coordinate production with translators and proofreaders
-Manage in-house freelancers efficiently and cost effectively
-Create status reports for customer service teams
-Hands-on production involvement such as checking completeness and accuracy of translation prior to delivery to client
-Check vendors' invoices for accuracy and match to purchase order and maintain accurate records of all costs.
Requirements:
-Degree or equivalent in Translation studies
-At least two yrs experience in project management within the translation industry preferably dealing with finance, medical or Life Sciences related projects
-Experience of leading a team
-Fluency in English plus any other European language, German language skills would be a great advantage
-Superior interpersonal skills, and the ability to gain the respect of a team in a short space of time
-The ability to work well under pressure and to communicate detailed instructions to multilingual vendors accurately
-Flexibility to work overtime required
-Goal orientated, self-motivated and pro-active and with great stamina
-An improviser and innovator with strong attention to detail
-Strong MS office skills and knowledge of desktop publishing software (Framemaker, QuarkXPress) and solid experience in translation memory experience including TRADOS, Multiterm IX, Context, and glossary and file management.
Please send your CV in word format to the email address quoted, other formats will not be accepted
Thank you for applying to Language Recruitment Services, the Specialists in Language Recruitment.
Applications can only be accepted from individuals who are eligible to work in the UK
Please bear in mind that you may not hear from us immediately. Should your skills and qualifications be suitable for the position applied for (or similar positions), we will contact you as soon as possible. In the event there are no positions currently available that match your skills and qualifications, we may hold your details on our database and contact you in the future should a suitable vacancy arise.
LRS is an Equal Opportunities Employer
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Contract: Permanent
Location: Central London
Job Ref: NH011554
Salary: Excellent
My client is urgently seeking talented individuals with solid experience in the translation industry and with great enthusiasm to join a large and busy team. You will be working in a driven and multi cultural environment where meeting the client's requirements is your number one priority.
As Team Leader of a number of Translation Project Managers working on different accounts, the primary focus of your work will be ensuring that projects are managed efficiently by the team - acting as the main contact person between internal and external clients and major vendors, you will be responsible for managing complex projects as well as specific production teams of up to ten Translation Project Coordinators as well as freelancers, and communicating detailed specific instructions to vendors and managing various processes. You will also be accountable for the final quality assurance of translations as well as accurate recording of activities.
Responsibilities:
-Manage workload and allocate tasks and instructions evenly to the team
-Supervising Translation Co-ordinators, monitoring and assigning admin tasks to them and ensuring that all Quality Checks have been carried out
-Responsibility for managing several major client accounts and organising production-related meetings
-Create and developing translations tools used for these accounts (Translation memories, glossaries style guides, etc.) and developing efficient workflows
-Supporting other members of the team in translation estimate analysis and preparation.
-Select and assign translation teams, negotiate rates and deadlines and coordinate production with translators and proofreaders
-Manage in-house freelancers efficiently and cost effectively
-Create status reports for customer service teams
-Hands-on production involvement such as checking completeness and accuracy of translation prior to delivery to client
-Check vendors' invoices for accuracy and match to purchase order and maintain accurate records of all costs.
Requirements:
-Degree or equivalent in Translation studies
-At least two yrs experience in project management within the translation industry preferably dealing with finance, medical or Life Sciences related projects
-Experience of leading a team
-Fluency in English plus any other European language, German language skills would be a great advantage
-Superior interpersonal skills, and the ability to gain the respect of a team in a short space of time
-The ability to work well under pressure and to communicate detailed instructions to multilingual vendors accurately
-Flexibility to work overtime required
-Goal orientated, self-motivated and pro-active and with great stamina
-An improviser and innovator with strong attention to detail
-Strong MS office skills and knowledge of desktop publishing software (Framemaker, QuarkXPress) and solid experience in translation memory experience including TRADOS, Multiterm IX, Context, and glossary and file management.
Please send your CV in word format to the email address quoted, other formats will not be accepted
Thank you for applying to Language Recruitment Services, the Specialists in Language Recruitment.
Applications can only be accepted from individuals who are eligible to work in the UK
Please bear in mind that you may not hear from us immediately. Should your skills and qualifications be suitable for the position applied for (or similar positions), we will contact you as soon as possible. In the event there are no positions currently available that match your skills and qualifications, we may hold your details on our database and contact you in the future should a suitable vacancy arise.
LRS is an Equal Opportunities Employer
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Due to the nature of this position, the recruiter has requested to restrict applications by location. Only candidates in Europe (EEA) may apply.
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