Senior Project Manager

Job Purpose

The role of Senior Localization Project Manager is to manage all assigned projects in the most efficient manner possible in order to ensure client retention, satisfaction and ultimately repeat revenue growth.

As the main point of contact for their clients, the ideal candidate must proactively use effective written and verbal communication to ensure that project teams understand the scope, complexity and expectations, and that the clients are kept fully informed as to the progress, position and financial status of their projects. Additionally, the Senior Project Manager needs to manage and motivate the extended project team, ensuring actions are clearly delegated and that resource/quality issues are escalated in a timely fashion to the departmental managers and Program Manager.

About The Strategic Solutions Group (SSG)

The Strategic Solutions Group, part of RWS’s Language Services division, works closely with major accounts and clients of all sizes who are going global with specialized localization services. These services cover the entire localization spectrum, from translating content, media, and audio to creating engaging eLearning programs and transcribing highly impactful marketing campaigns. The SSG works closely with RWS’s Language eXperience Delivery (LXD) platform, which includes 2,000 in-house linguists, and a network of more than 29,000 translators, who use RWS’s proprietary machine translation, AI, and translation productivity tools, to deliver a 24/7 service to clients.

Job Overview

Key Responsibilities

Delivery of projects to client’s expectations achieving targeted levels of profitability.

Compiling estimates and proposals for approval.

Close financial monitoring and control of projects through budgets, invoicing and change orders to ensure timely and final invoicing.

Strategic project planning involving best methodologies, processes, and risk assessments.

Accurate documentation and filing of all project related materials.

Identification and development of project/process improvement opportunities and escalating to Program Manager.

Hosting regular, documented verbal and written communications with clients, Network Offices and internal team members.

Works on complex problems/projects where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors and works complex problems through to resolution

Internal and customer involved initiatives to drive localization maturity, process improvement or business strategy forward

Potential to monitor and mentor of more junior team members

Able to work independently yet also maintain global team communication and collaboration

Skills & Experience

Degree in either Localization, project management, a business related area or equivalent work experience

Typically requires 8+ years of localization project management experience

3+ years of budget management experience

Experience growing accounts

Good written/verbal communication and presentation skills

Client-facing experience (managing calls, supporting topical discussions, etc).

Proactive mindset

Ambitious and with a desire to learn and progress

Analytical and organized problem solving abilities

Life at RWS

At RWS, we’re here for one purpose: unlocking global understanding.

As a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services, we remove the barriers to communication to make global connection possible. Our unrivalled experience and deep understanding of language have been developed over more than 60 years. As we look to shape the future, our ambition is to create a world where understanding is universal for everyone.

We work with over 80% of the world’s top 100 brands, more than three-quarters of Fortune’s 20 ‘Most Admired Companies’ and almost all the top pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, law firms and patent filers. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America. Our 65+ global locations across five continents service clients in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors.

If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about breaking down language barriers and giving back to their communities, then you’ll love life at RWS. Our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong.

We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner with colleagues and clients, to adopt a pioneering spirit, to be positive in progressing the work we do, and always to deliver what we promise.

RWS Values

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we ll Deliver together as One RWS.

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Regular Full-Time