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Localization Senior Project Manager

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree OR Bachelor’s Degree and relevant industry experience
  • Proven track record of Project Management
  • Experience working internationally or directly with international product development
  • Strong organizational and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

  • Manage accounts including project planning, execution, tracking, delivery, and closure
  • Supervise and lead global teams and manage client relationships
  • Create project schedules, estimates, and proposals for customer approval
  • Ensure accurate financial data and report project status to stakeholders

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Social Skills
  • Verbal Communication Skills
  • Organizational Skills
  • Motivational Skills
  • Team Leadership
  • Time Management

About the company

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Welocalize

Business Consulting & Services

For over 25 years, Welocalize has helped some of the world's largest organizations improve customer engagement through the power of localized content. Since our founding in 1997, we've been a leader in applying innovative technology and adopting AI to deliver the highest quality translations quickly, efficiently, and at scale. Our proven track record showcases tangible business outcomes, including higher marketing conversion rates, regulatory compliance, increased customer satisfaction and retention, intellectual property protection, higher adoption rates, and improved data with enhanced models. At the heart of our innovation is OPAL, our advanced Service Delivery Platform, ensuring every translation is fast, effortless, and impeccably accurate. This technology, combined with our extensive network of over 250,000 linguistic experts in more than 250 languages, allows us to deliver multilingual content transformation services that are unmatched in quality and relevance. Our global team of industry specialists is dedicated to enabling your teams to achieve global business outcomes. From translation and localization to NLP-enabled machine learning training data, and data annotation, we blend cutting-edge technology with human insight across every project.

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryBusiness Consulting & Services
Company size1001 - 5000

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Job Responsibilities:

Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Department: Project Management
Reports To: Operations Squad Lead

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB

The Senior Project Manager (SPM) will both manage accounts directly assigned to them (project planning, execution, tracking, delivery and closure using Welocalize standard processes and tools) and will support the Operations Squad Lead in large enterprise accounts.

A SPM will own relationships with the customer at the project level and work closely with Welocalize account directors and production teams to optimize delivery, client satisfaction, quality and profitability.

The ideal candidate is a driven but steady individual, capable of building relationships across the entire project team, with the flexibility and energy to thrive in a dynamic environment

MAIN DUTIES


The following is a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities and areas of ownership of the Senior Project Manager:


  • Supervision and leadership of global teams (including internal and external, direct and indirect reports)
  • Preparation, analysis and implementation of project plans following the Welocalize standards for project Management, i.e. Project Start Standards, Workflow and Completion; updating project status, invoice approvals, updating client information, etc.
  • Creation of project schedules, project estimates, and proposals for customer approval
  • Risk assessment and strategic planning of activities to minimize potential issues
  • Operating with a medium level of support, incl. recognition and escalation in a timely manner of any issues beyond their control
  • Establishing strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, incl. colleagues in other departments, vendors, etc. Working collaboratively on project and client objectives with other involved stakeholders
  • Building and maintaining strong relationships with customer contacts at the project and program level, with measurable success in customer ratings
  • Working with the production team in the continuous improvement of project delivery, profitability, and efficiency/automation
  • Effective and timely communication with all stakeholders involved in the project(s), incl. clients, production business units, etc.
  • Ensuring all finance systems data is accurate and kept up to date
  • Reporting, incl. Weekly Project Status reports, Budget to Actual, Time Management, and Client/Vendor related issues to other involved stakeholders.
  • Ensuring profit of project is maintained through the management of margin
  • Planning, preparing & running quarterly business reviews with clients face-to-face
  • Development and preparation of process documents where required
  • Management of QA projects, incl. resource management, defect management, reporting, etc.

REQUIREMENTS


Education Level

  • Master’s Degree OR Bachelor’s Degree and experience in the industry in lieu of Master’s Degree acceptable

Experience

  • Proven track record of Project Management
  • Experience working internationally or directly with international product development
  • Experience in technology related company
  • Proven experience dealing with large clients, accounts, and projects. Track record of success at managing complex eLearning and Multimedia projects is a plus.
  • Experience in authoring client documents such as SOW’s, proposals, processes and ‘post mortems’
  • Proven track record of active participation in development of processes and ideas
  • Proven track record of active participation in new client sales cycles, incl. presentations, analysis, recommendations and relationship development
  • Experience in managing financial budgets, budget reconciliation and budget reporting
  • Experience with Translation Management Systems, i.e. XTM and Smartling
  • Experience with AI tools (GPT, Claude, etc.) and with optimizing processes and workflows with AI

Other relevant skills

  • Energy and a positive attitude with excellent interpersonal skills.
  • The ability to lead large, diverse, virtual teams.
  • Excellent Written and verbal communication skills. 
  • Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
  • Effective presentation skills.
  • Ability to build and maintain strong client relationships
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities  in a time-sensitive and deadline-driven work environment
  • Must be available to travel for work related commitments.

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