Job Details:
Location: Remote (can be fully remote, CET hours preferred)
Project Length: 12 months, renewable very likely
Company: Client in the automotive industry
Required qualifications:
– Fluent in English and preferably some understanding of German.
– Demonstrated expertise in plain language, readability, tone, and brand voice development, experience with technical or product copy and financial disclosures a plus.
– Experience in leading and coordinating a team.
– Hold an interest in cars.
– Moderate knowledge of vehicle technology and aftermarket processes.
– Experience with AI-assisted writing tools and language automation in a sales/retail context, including financial content workflows.
– Knowledge of Office package and JIRA, Confluence, Salesforce.
– Ability to relate to, and meet, sometimes short critical deadlines.
– Meticulous mindset.
– Good networking skills.
– Problem-solving and critical thinking
Tasks and working method:
– Identify language-related risks (ambiguous vehicle specifications, financing terms, tone discrepancies, bias, inclusivity) and implement preventive measures in all NSC touch points.
– Establish metrics and dashboards to track language quality, translation turnaround times.
– Drive continuous improvement through audits, feedback loops, and maintenance of linguistic resources (glossaries, style guides, term bases) specific to automotive sales, financing, insurance, and after sales.
– Validation of new and modified technical terminology.
– Suggesting improvements to the terminology.
– Respond to e-mail enquiries about terminology.
– Evaluate translations and translation service providers.
-Coordinator of Language Champions and SPOC towards other business areas and AG.
– Capacity planning of other Language Champions.
– Available capacity for tasks as Language Champion.
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