Localization Project Manager － Korean speaker

• Complete administrative tasks including organization of emails and documents, import/export of data, document creation and maintenance, printing files for jobs
• Identify/understand project requirements
• Manage simple and complex projects:

• o Placing jobs, setting up jobs; calculating and assigning budgets
• o Identifying best vendors for the accounts, contacting vendors, negotiate deadlines, and prices
• o Creating purchase orders
• o Conduct final eye and project delivery upon graduation on regular, special and sample projects
• o Final check of deliverables against initial instructions
• o Billing: contact vendors to resolve issues such as invoice/word count discrepancies; data entry

• Create and track schedules for individual projects and departments
• Log costs, scores, and general job information onto spreadsheets
• Create project plans for internal and external use
• Maintain relationships with vendors: identify, recruit, engage and train vendors for accounts
• Identify and set up linguistic teams
• Follow-up with vendors, contact Vendor Management team with any requests, vendor calendar management, expansion of vendor selection and creation of potential vendor lists
• Manage, create and maintain specific accounts Translation Memory & Glossary
• Create and maintain reference material
• File preparation: format using .doc, PDF and .xls files; importing images into Word documents, PPT, etc.
• Communicate with clients and attend client calls when required
• Analyze client feedback/root cause and drive appropriate actions
• Assist, support and manage Compliance Report investigations
• Actively participate in the implementation of preventive actions
• Actively participate in the creation of immediate corrective and preventive actions
• Share knowledge and expertise with internal and external stakeholders
• Suggest improvements and innovation for existing processes
• Solve technical issues in collaboration with the appropriate support team
• Identify root causes and communicate findings to the rest of the team
• Handle escalations
• Identify and anticipate risks (severity, likelihood, early detection)
• Communicate potential failure modes to stakeholder
• Act to avoid identified failure modes
• Support training trainees (e.g. non-linguistic final eye graduation)
• Support trainees, Project Assistants and Project Coordinators managing basic jobs
• Liaise with internal Machine Translation team for set-up and training
• Utilize internal technology effectively
• Aid Project Coordinators and other Project Managers in daily tasks as needed
• Complete all other tasks that are deemed appropriate for this role and assigned by the manager/supervisor

Benefits

• National pension, health insurance, supplemental group health insurance coverage

Working Hours & Holidays

• Monday to Friday, 8 working hours between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM including a 1-hour break
• 2 days off per week (weekends and public holidays)
• Paid leave (15 days in the first year) and birthday leave

Employment Type

• Permanent contract after a 6 month probation period

Others

• Office location: 17/F & 18/F TransPerfect Korea, Gwanghwamun Bldg. 149 Sejong-Daero Jongno-Gu, Seoul 03186.
• Annual health check-up (once per year)
• Free coffee, tea and fruit
• Holiday gift
• Employment discount offer
• Company events