Director of operations #LI-EJ1 #Remote
Who we are
Founded in 2010, our client a multi-cultural localization company helping businesses expand into international markets. They offer a new standard of service in the localization world, with a combination of high quality linguistic experts, competitive pricing as well as dedicated account managers who work directly with their clients to ensure their success, they are the perfect choice for expanding into new markets.
Brief Job Overview
Who we are
Founded in 2010, our client a multi-cultural localization company helping businesses expand into international markets. They offer a new standard of service in the localization world, with a combination of high quality linguistic experts, competitive pricing as well as dedicated account managers who work directly with their clients to ensure their success, they are the perfect choice for expanding into new markets.
Brief Job Overview
- Manage local and remote employees, developing and measuring KPIs to ensure long term client satisfaction and employee growth and putting processes into place that reflect ongoing client and employee needs
- Help mold the culture of the company specifically related to our values, standards and practices, and hold management and employees accountable to the same standards
- Design quality management workflows and solutions.
- Building linguistic services workflows (including Machine Translation Post-Editing Services and Machine Translation Evaluation).
- Creating business opportunities, relationships, and procedures with International Customers.
- Managing international client portfolio and assessing account health
- Managing & coordinating multilingual MTPE projects in cooperation with the Production Team.
- Assessing client needs and coordinating production teams to achieve client end goal.
- Responsible for consistent business growth in terms of revenue and new customer acquisition.
- Responsible for account development by assessing requirements and delivering the right solutions with high quality.
- Providing accurate weekly and monthly reporting on sales efforts and pipeline management
- Maintaining the CRM, commercials negotiation, closure, billing, and logistics.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve customer experience.
- Leading and managing the planning, strategy, building pipeline, proposal process, and bid preparation
- Setting goals and developing plans to achieve the goals and so the company's mission and vision.
- Performing market research on competitive landscape and industry trends.
- Staying up to date with product launches, services, and innovations to provide language solutions
- Presenting the company’s solutions at International Conferences and Events.
- Encouraging and training the team on the value proposition of new business verticals.
- Evaluating, training, and monitoring quality of linguistic teams
- Project Management of VIP clients
Skills required:
- At least 5 years of experience working on a senior position at another localization agency.
- Bachelor’s degree: Masters in Business or a relevant Linguistics degree (preferred).
- Experience with relevant technologies within the translation industry: Cat tools, , MTPE, Task Management Software, AI…
- Familiarity with MTPE processes, and quality management processes.
- Excellent English verbal and written communication.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to interact with all levels within the organization
- Ability to manage multiple projects in parallel.
- Strong business skills, client-service and result orientated mindset
- Excellent presentation skills (Presenting offline at conferences / webinars).
- Proven ability to plan and lead management initiatives