At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage localisation projects, ensuring timely and quality content delivery across markets.
- Company: Join a dynamic team focused on innovative localisation strategies.
- Benefits: Gain valuable experience in project management and localisation within a supportive environment.
- Other info: Opportunity to enhance your organisational and communication skills while working with diverse teams.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of global content launches and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Strong project management skills and experience in localisation workflows required.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain detailed plans, checklists and milestone trackers for assigned launch waves.
- Coordinate launch activity across DX content, development and market teams to achieve fixed go-live dates.
- Drive progress toward design, content and configuration freeze points for each launch wave.
- Run launch-focused stand-ups, status reviews and readiness sessions for assigned launches.
- Identify, manage and escalate risks and issues that could affect launch delivery or content readiness.
- Support go/no-go decision making through clear reporting on launch status, dependencies and blockers.
- Coordinate hypercare activities after launch and contribute to post-launch retrospectives and continuous improvement.
- Raise translation jobs with vendors or tools and ensure work is briefed accurately.
- Apply translation memories, glossaries and agreed localisation standards across content workflows.
- Track translation progress by market and language, ensuring status is visible and deadlines are met.
- Route translated content to market liaisons and stakeholders for review, follow-up and timely return.
- Ensure translated and localised content meets quality, brand and timing expectations for each launch wave.
Requirements
- Strong project management skills, including planning, scheduling, dependency tracking, and risk and issue management across multiple workstreams, including content, development, and market teams.
- Demonstrable ability to build and maintain detailed plans, checklists, and milestone trackers, and to drive teams towards configuration and content freeze points.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including leading status reviews, readiness meetings, and supporting go/no-go decision-making.
- Hands-on experience with localisation and translation workflows, including raising translation jobs, managing vendors and tools.
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to track translation progress by market and language and ensure deadlines and quality expectations are met.
- Ability to identify, manage, and escalate risks and issues, particularly those affecting content readiness, market approvals, and launch-critical dependencies.
- Familiarity with localisation, translation, and market adaptation processes, including terminology management and localisation quality practices.
- Experience working with regional or market-based operating models and multi-market stakeholder structures.
- Proficiency with productivity tools, such as CMS or web platforms and project management tools such as JIRA or equivalent for trackers.
- Strong stakeholder management capabilities, with the ability to build trust with market liaisons and central teams while balancing local needs with global-first plans.
- Hard Skills
- Planning
- Scheduling
- Dependency Tracking
- Risk Management
- Translation Management
- Quality Assurance
- Milestone Tracking
- Content Freeze Management
- Terminology Management
- Localisation Standards
- Soft Skills
- Attention to Detail
- Organisational Skills
- Facilitation Skills
- Trust Building
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Project Management
Planning
Scheduling
Dependency Tracking
Risk Management
Translation Management
Quality Assurance
