Responsibilities:
• Establishing strong and productive relationships with existing and new vendors and ensuring their requirements are being handled adequately.
• Executing vendor on boarding life cycle for all languages and for all industries.
• Communicate with vendor/translators.
• Developing short terms work plans and workflows, per language selling budget, managing resources.
• Creates and controls localization department outsourcing budgets, performs cost tracking analysis, ensures timely on-boarding process.
• Assigns monitors and measures linguist members’ work.
• Training junior staff through training and coaching opportunities and by creating methodologies, tools, and checklists to improve the vendor management process.
• Respond to any linguist & departmental issues.
• Obtains a quality check and feedback on all linguist performance.
• Managing onboarding vendor registration documentations.
• Acting as a bridge between linguists and the internal teams if necessary.
• Ensuring that the linguist and production team queries are addressed promptly.
• Devising strategies to approach prospects.
• Addressing different ways to retain linguists.
• Preparing RFP’s, NDA’s, Contracts etc. as part of vendor managers role.
• Hiring, interviewing, training and directing the regional linguistic teams.
• Attending and providing department related updates to the board of directors on weekly/monthly company meetings.
• Handling the regional office affairs as the department vendor manager.
• Drafting, pitching and submitting responses for RFP’s as far as Production department is concerned.
• Short stay and travelling for work and meetings.
• Providing technical and non-technical assistance to the production team.
• Hunting and communicating with linguists for all required languages and regions.
• Quality and background check for all vendors.
• Assigning tests, quality checking and approval/disapproval of vendors.
• Maintaining proper checklist, document filing and regular updates of company information.
• Any other relative tasks that may be assigned by the team head or company director.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience, preferably with a major in translation.
• 1-3 years of proven experience in the localization and translation industry, specifically in the Vendor Management field.
• Strong verbal and written command of English is a must.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• High organizational skills.
• Details oriented.
• Hard worker.
• Can work under stress and meet the deadlines.
Requirements:
• The job will be handled remotely / from home from 9 AM till 6 PM EST.
• Should be flexible in the working hours. The Vendor Manager would be requested to be available to assign / handle any urgent requests that might come up after working hours.
• Working days from Mondays through Fridays.
• Weekends on Saturdays and Sundays.
**Please submit your resume in English in order for your application to be reviewed.