Ref #:
W159854
Department:
Creative Services
City:
London
State/Province:
London
Location:
United Kingdom
Company Description
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren’s reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company’s brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world’s most widely recognized families of consumer brands.
At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.
Position Overview
The Localization Senior Associate is a key part of the localization team, reporting to the Senior Localization Manager and sitting more broadly within the Digital Commerce team at RL EMEA. Managing a portfolio of projects and stakeholders within digital and beyond, to encompass marketing, media, stores, customer service, and more. As the localization team expands its service offering and languages, this is a new role to bring a competent expert in ecommerce localization to work on projects incorporating translation, review, PEMT, AI solutions, copywriting, keyword research, subtitling, and more.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead new and complex workflows and projects end-to-end, ensuring any new SOPs are documented, clearly communicated to project stakeholders and vendor teams. Maintain resource and cost oversight for areas within this scope.
• Manage available resources and support langauge teams in meeting deliverables by answering queries, setting deadlines and creating/maintaining supporting documents.
• Work with external linguists and vendors to develop and maintain established translation tools, workflow, style guides, glossaries for a clear and consistent approach.
• Contribute to continuous quality improvement initiatives and strategies to share localization achievements in the wider organization.
• Coach and support junior team members in localization best practices.

EXPERIENCE, SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

The role is ideal for someone with experience in the localization industry whether vendor or client side. A second language besides English is an advantage.
The successful candidate will be equally skilled in explaining the complexities of localization clearly to marketers, developers, project managers etc. and also at understanding the details of localization strategy to set parameters for external vendors and linguists.
They should be confident in their decision making, balancing organizational goals of efficiency, budget, timing and quality.
Previous knowledge of ecommerce is a definite advantage.

• Lead new and complex workflows and projects end-to-end, ensuring any new SOPs are documented, clearly communicated to project stakeholders and vendor teams. Maintain resource and cost oversight for areas within this scope.
• Manage available resources and support langauge teams in meeting deliverables by answering queries, setting deadlines and creating/maintaining supporting documents.
• Work with external linguists and vendors to develop and maintain established translation tools, workflow, style guides, glossaries for a clear and consistent approach.
• Contribute to continuous quality improvement initiatives and strategies to share localization achievements in the wider organization.
• Coach and support junior team members in localization best practices