Senior Project Manager

at  RWS Group

Job Purpose:
The Senior Project Manager primary responsibilities are managing large scale client programs, maintaining existing relationships within the accounts and growing new opportunities. Responsible for all onsite and offshore delivery of programs, manage and mentor staff, and team oversight and supervision.
About The Strategic Content Solutions (SCS)
Strategic Content Solutions, 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 transcreating highly impactful marketing campaigns. The SCS 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:

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• BA degree in business or technology related field.
• 5 - 7 years of experience in Senior Project Management -Localization or related environment required.
• Knowledge of localization processes and/or software development life cycle, quality assurance practices, principles, and methodologies.
• Excellent skills in drafting and communicating project documents in a clear and concise manner.
• Proven negotiation skills in dealing with delicate aspects of small/medium size project proposals.
• Possess leadership, time management, and organizational skills.
• Strong competence of job-related tools, procedures, and programming languages.
• Experience in a wide range of technologies.
• Experience managing onsite-offshore delivery teams across multiple programs/projects within an account.
• Proven experience in technology environment and in applicable vertical market.
• Proven people, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to analyze business opportunities and develop effective business development strategies.
• Advanced experience in technology environment and applicable vertical market.
• Strong working knowledge of current market technologies required.
• Understanding of environment, drivers and dependencies, quality assurance practices, principles and methodologies required.
• Ability to interact with various cultures in a global organization.
• Ability to understand P&L financials.
• Ability to maintain professionalism and confidentiality with proprietary information.
  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.
  Over the past 20 years we’ve been evolving our own AI solutions as well as helping clients to explore, build and use multilingual AI applications. With 45+ AI-related patents and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, we have the experience and expertise to support clients on their AI journey.
  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.

• Manage client as a program, responsible for all onsite and offshore delivery.
• Manage, mentor and motivate staff, provide project team oversight and supervision.
• Manage and maintain existing business and grow new opportunities within account.
• Manage the implementation of highly complex software development and/or testing projects.
• Oversee development of project plans and timelines, project specifications, and track execution of project tasks using defined metrics according to a measurement plan.
• Ensure quality and timely deliverables to clients.
• Track project P&L, budget and PO to ensure proper and timely invoicing.
• Coordinate with other functional leads, understand working capital cycles and constantly make improvements
• Suggest new lines of business. Make proposals for procurement with cost benefit analysis.