New Media Services Expeditor (...New!)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious candidate to join our New Media Services department. This is a fast-paced department responsible for the competitive buying of Media Services resources.

In this role, you will be responsible for evaluating projects and placing work with Vendors. You will report to the New Media Services Manager and liaise between vendors, vendor relations team, sales and projects teams to ensure projects are delivered in a timely manner according to target and budget.

You will also be requested to provide quotes and monitor the scheduling and production of work.

In order to be considered for this role, we are looking for candidates with:

• Excellent IT skills and computer literacy essential. Familiar with all DTP packages such as InDesign, Quark, Flash etc
• A keen eye for detail
• Excellent communication skills
• A flexible approach; ability to multi-task
• Ability to work under own initiative
• Potential to negotiate with new and existing DTP vendors
• Industry experience desirable, but design and printing backgrounds are welcome

This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy department within a fast-growing international company.

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Vendor Relations Administrator

An opportunity has arisen for an administrator to join our Vendor Relations department, which is responsible for the recruitment of professional linguists to our database.

In this role, you will provide administrative support to the Vendor Relations Executive and the Global Vendor Relations Manager, processing applications, updating the supplier database which is accessible to the Operational team, and being responsible for ensuring all the information about our suppliers is correct and accurate.

You may also be requested to carry out urgent sourcing tasks, using various internet sites and recruitment channels to source translators for specific projects.

In order to be considered for this role, we are looking for candidates with:

• At least 1 yrs' administrative experience, ideally familiar with using databases
• A keen eye for detail
• Excellent written skills
• A flexible approach; ability to multi-task
• Familiar with all Microsoft applications particularly Outlook, Word and Excel
• Potential to negotiate with new and existing suppliers

This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy department within a fast-growing international company.

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Vendor Relations Executive – Leeds

Exciting opportunities have arisen for ambitious candidates to join our Vendor Relations department in Leeds and New York!

The Vendor Relations team is responsible for the buying of all linguistic resources and the recruitment of professional linguists to our database.

This role within our fast-paced buying department offers the ideal opportunity for a localization industry purchasing professional to apply their skills and knowledge of the industry and also learn more in the environment of a growing business, which is expanding into new markets.

In this role, you will work very closely with senior members of the team and the Financial Controller on purchasing strategy. Your focus will be on long-term sourcing requirements for large and upcoming projects. However, you will also be required to turn your hand to urgent sourcing requests as and where required.

In order to be considered for this role, we are looking for candidates with:

• Excellent IT skills and computer literacy essential. Familiar with all Microsoft applications particularly Outlook, Word and Excel
• A keen eye for detail
• Excellent Written Skills
• A flexible approach; ability to multi-task
• Experience in negotiating with new and existing suppliers
• Language skills desirable but not essential
• 1-2 Years vendor relations experience in localization industry required

This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy department within a fast-growing international company.

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Japanese>Various translators required

We are looking for experienced translators offering Japanese as either a source or target language with any other European or Asian language to meet the increasing demand for these language combinations.

With a minimum of 3 years' experience in translation, and use of Trados 7 or above, we require specialists in:

• Automotive
• Engineering
• Pharmaceutical
• Medical
• Finance/banking
• IT/Software
• Business/Commercial
• Marketing
• Law

In return thebigword can offer you interesting, varied and regular work, translating for some of the world's largest multinational organisations.

To apply, please fill in the Translator Application Form or contact Rachel Stephen, Global Vendor Relations Manager at Rachel.stephen@thebigword.com enclosing a full version of your CV.

Scandinavian freelance translators required

As we are about to open a new office in Copenhagen, we are looking to recruit freelance translators from and to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish to meet the increasing demands we have for these language combinations.

With a minimum of 3 years' experience in translation, and use of Trados 7 or above, we require specialists in:

• Automotive
• Engineering
• Pharmaceutical
• Medical
• Finance/banking
• IT/Software
• Business/Commercial
• Marketing
• Law

In return thebigword can offer you interesting, varied and regular work, translating for some of the world's largest multinational organisations.

To apply, please fill in the Translator Application Form or contact Rachel Stephen, Global Vendor Relations Manager at Rachel.stephen@thebigword.com enclosing a full version of your CV.

Project Administrator – Leeds

thebigword is a world-leading language management company, providing translation and interpreting services to multinational clients via a technology platform.

A Leeds-based role, which can be regarded as the foot in the door to an exciting career in project management. You will work as part of a team using a combination of project management, linguistic and IT skills to successfully deliver projects to many high profile clients.

You will assist in the project process, reporting to a Project Manager, or generally helping out on a team. You will build up your skills to move towards a more client-facing role and a role as a Project Manager, if this is the step you wish to make.

Responsibilities include:

• Management and co-ordination of translators, software engineers and DTP specialists
• Ensuring tasks are completed in a timely manner
• Effective communication with team members and both internal and external suppliers

Skills and experience required:

• Degree level education. Language degrees and MA qualifications welcomed, but not essential
• Client facing experience
• Strong commercial awareness
• High level of IT literacy
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Previous experience within the translation industry welcomed

thebigword offer an excellent career progression plan and tailored training programmes, aimed at getting you onto the next rung in your project management career.

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Project Director – New York

Due to the expansion of our Operations team, we require a Project Director in our New York office. It is a challenging role which involves a combination of management skills and commercial experience, including:

• Ability to build and manage an effective team of around 6 – 10 employees, supporting and mentoring team members where necessary
• Ability to distribute and monitor workload, making recommendations on staffing levels where appropriate
• Experience of client-facing situations, including conference calls, accompanying sales staff on visits and presenting on operational issues
• Ability to conduct risk-assessment on new projects and advocate and implement change in processes upon the completion of projects
• Ability to identify areas for growth within accounts handled on team, alerting the sales team to any new opportunities

The role involves working closely with our Senior Management team and our Sales team.

We are ideally looking for 3-5 years localisation industry experience.

This is a senior role within thebigword and offers many future opportunities depending on where your particular skills lie.

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Project Managers – Leeds, Düsseldorf and Tokyo

thebigwordGroup is a world-leading language management company, supplying translation and interpreting services to a wide range of multinational clients.

This is a challenging Leeds (UK), Düsseldorf (Germany) or Tokyo-based role, requiring a combination of project management, linguistic and IT skills to successfully deliver projects to many high profile clients.

For all of our global locations we require native or near-native language skills, e.g. native Japanese for Tokyo.

We are ideally looking for candidates with at least 1-2 years localization industry experience.

Responsibilities include:

• Management and co-ordination of translators, software engineers and DTP specialists
• Planning, scheduling and monitoring the progress of multiple projects
• Effective communication with clients to ensure customer satisfaction Basic awareness of HTML/XML

Skills and experience required:

• Degree level education. Language degrees and MA qualifications welcomed, but not essential
• At least 1 -2 years industry experience
• Client facing experience
• Strong commercial awareness
• High level of IT literacy
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Problem-solving skills

We offer an excellent career progression plan and tailored training programmes, aimed at getting you onto the next rung in your project management career.

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Business Development Managers – Washington, West Coast US, Benelux

We require highly motivated sales professionals to join our teams in the US and Europe. The role involves a combination of telephone and field sales work and will require frequent travel throughout the US and Europe, depending on sales territory to be covered.

The BDMs for our US business thebigword inc. will be either based from our New York office or will represent thebigword on the West Coast. There are no specific language requirements for this role, but we will be looking for industry experience.

Our BDM for the Benelux will ideally be based from our Düsseldorf office and will be a fluent Dutch speaker, with German as a second language. Candidates for all positions should have a proven track record in a sales environment, preferably in the translation industry sector.

Responsibilities include:

• Maximise the sales revenue from new and existing clients and to develop strong and profitable business relationships
• Increase, develop and diversify the client base in accordance with the company's technical development programme and business plan
• Liaise with all the appropriate departments in relation to major accounts and direct them as appropriate.

Skills and experience required:

• Fluent English
• Competency in other languages considered an advantage
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent telephone manner
• Dependability
• Highly motivated and assertive

This expansion of our sales team in the US and Europe is key to the ongoing development of our business and should be viewed as a fantastic opportunity to build on an existing sales career in a dynamic growth industry.

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Trainee Business Development Manager - Leeds

We are recruiting for a Trainee Business Development Manager for our Leeds office. The successful applicant will become part of our dynamic, multilingual telephone-based sales team. You will be fully trained on our systems and on our range of services and will receive ongoing support from the department manager.

We want to hear from you if you are committed to winning and to achieving goals, persistent in getting where you want to be and are skilled in communicating a clear and memorable message in a matter of seconds.

Reporting to our Telesales Supervisor, your duties will be as follows:

• Identifying, researching and exploring areas of potential business, assisting in the strategic development of the database, passing leads to our strategic sales team
• Participating in various telesales campaigns and presenting our services in the best possible way over the phone
• Maintaining an up-to-date record of all activity and phone calls

Skills and experience required:

• Excellent communication skills, especially spoken, including good telephone manner
• A proven track record in a telesales environment
• Dependability
• High motivation levels and assertiveness

This is an opportunity to develop a career in sales within a dynamic global company and an exciting and forward-looking industry.

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Language Quality Assurance Specialist – Japan

The Japanese market is a key area of development for us. Building on our already established team, dedicated to managing the translation needs of Japanese clients, we are now looking for an LQA Specialist to be based from our new office in Tokyo.

In this role you will review Japanese into English translation, establishing a process for controlling linguistic quality. You will also play a part in dealing with freelance translators and reviewers, ensuring that their work is tested and that they are providing a high quality service.

Requirements:

• Previous experience of translation and/or proofreading
• Educated to at least degree level. If degree is not in translation must have similar qualifications
• English mother tongue and fluent in Japanese
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Thorough attention to detail
• High level of computer literacy including translation memory tools
• Excellent customer facing skills

Desirable:

• Prior experience within the localisation industry
• An understanding of the localisation process

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Deputy Operations Manager – Beijing

An exciting senior role within our China Operation, based in our Beijing office. You will support our growing Operations team in China, working closely with the Operations Manager Beijing, and the Global Operations Manager based in our Leeds HQ.

Your main area of responsibility will be with the Operations team in Beijing, where you will support the daily activity of a team of Project Managers, Translators and LQA, DTP and Engineers.

You will deputise for the Operations Manager as required, maintaining the smooth running of our China Operations, supporting our Sales team and ensuring that we are delivering the best possible service to our global clients.

You will work as part of a global team, ensuring that the Beijing operational team fully support the company's global sales and strategic development plans, and working with our other offices around the world.

We would like to hear from you if you have experience of working to a senior level within the translation industry, or if you can demonstrate an equivalent skill-set from another background.

Essential skills are:

• Strong commercial awareness
• Excellent people-management skills
• Ability to design and improve processes and workflows
• Strong client facing skills
• Problem-solving skills
• High level of IT literacy
• Strong oral and written communication skills

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Japanese>English translators required

We are looking for experienced Japanese>English financial translators to meet the increasing demand for this language combination and specialist subject. The subject areas include investment banking, equities research, bonds, banking.

Trados will be required, as well as the ability to take on regular work.

We would also be interested in hearing from you if you offer Japanese<>French/German/Spanish/Italian in the financial, automotive, medical, and IT fields.

British copywriters

We have a requirement for talented British English copywriters to work closely with us on the creation of marketing copy for a renowned online gaming company.

We are looking for experienced copywriters who can create concepts that will be used in a variety of media (billboards, taxi ads, underground ads) who would be willing to work directly with our client in producing top quality material.

Consistency - and most importantly – accuracy is paramount for this role. You will need to be a continuous, ongoing contact who is happy to receive training and communicate with our client.

Our client will be looking for a "global" English style of copy, and in some cases, a UK-specific English style. This would cover not just obvious things like spelling changes, but cultural/stylistic differences where appropriate.

If you are interested in this exciting role, and have proven copywriting experience, please contact Rachel Stephen, Global Vendor Relations Manager at rachel.stephen@thebigword.com, or call 0870 748 8014.

Online gambling/casino specialist translators required

We are looking to recruit freelance translators from English into the following languages who have proven experience of translating online gambling/casino websites:

• Danish
• Dutch
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek
• Italian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Latin American Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Japanese
• Norwegian
• Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)

to meet the increasing demands we have for these language combinations. With a minimum of 3 years' experience in translation, and use of Trados 6.5 or above, we are looking for translators to whom we can send regular work for an ever-growing list of online gaming clients.

To apply, please fill in our Translator Application Form.

CEE freelance translators required

We are looking to recruit freelance translators from English and German into:

• Polish
• Estonian
• Slovak
• Bulgarian
• Hungarian
• Lithuanian
• Slovene
• Russian
• Czech
• Latvian
• Romanian

to meet the increasing demands we have for these language combinations. With a minimum of 3 years' experience in translation, and use of Trados 7 or above, we require specialists in:

• Automotive
• Engineering
• Pharmaceutical
• Medical
• Finance/banking
• IT/Software
• Business/Commercial Marketing
• Law

In return thebigword can offer you interesting, varied and regular work, translating for some of the world's largest multinational organisations.

To apply, please fill in the Translator Application Form.

German-English financial/banking freelancers required

We are looking for experienced German-English strongly financial translators to meet the increasing demand for this language combination and specialist subject. The subject areas include investment banking, equities research, bonds, banking.

Trados 7.5 and Multiterm is required, as well as the ability to take on daily work.

Please fill in the online Translator application form or contact Rachel Stephen, Global Vendor Relations Manager at rachel.stephen@thebigword.com enclosing full version of your CV.

In-house Translators/Reviewers - financial/banking

German – English

A Leeds, London, Düsseldorf or New York based role which will involve working within an In-house team currently covering the major Western European languages.

We are looking for experienced German-English strongly financial in-house translators/reviewers to meet the increasing demand for this language combination and specialist subject. The subject areas include investment banking, equities research, bonds, banking.

In this role you will liaise with the Project Managers to schedule in your work effectively and meet client requests.

Requirements:

• Previous experience of translating financial texts
• Educated to at least degree level. If degree is not in translation must have similar qualifications linked to specialised subject (in this case, Finance)
• Translator's target language for translation must be mother tongue
• At least 3 to 5 years professional experience in the translation industry
• To provide a proven track record of previous experience in the field of translation
• Ability to research in-depth in a variety of subjects
• Good organisational and time management skills
• High level of computer literacy including translation memory tools
• Can provide the names of two referees familiar with your translation work

DTP QA – Leeds

thebigword translates millions of words a year for some of the world's biggest international corporations and very often when we are asked to translate manuals, brochures or other documentation for publication, this work is then typeset by our in-house DTP team.

We require DTP QA proofreaders to work for thebigword on a casual basis from our premises in Leeds, checking the typeset files against the source and looking for any discrepancies.

Responsibilities include checking:

• that fonts and styles used in the source text are the same in the target
• that correct graphics have been used in the target
• that text has not run onto the next page in the target text
• that text in tables is aligned properly and that the columns are wide enough for the text in the cells
• that all text within the body of the documents has been translated
• that numbers and names have been correctly reproduced in the target
• that there are no corrupted characters throughout the text

We require:

• Attention to detail
• Computer literacy
• Good communication skills

As a casual worker, the role would be ideal for a university student looking for summer holiday work. Although not essential, knowledge of a language would be an advantage.

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C#.NET Systems Developer (Japanese-speaking) – Beijing, China, or Leeds, UK

We have a vacancy for a C#.NET Systems Developers to be based in our Beijing office or our Leeds office. As this person will be required to liaise with our Japanese clients on technical matters, fluency in Japanese is a must.

Requirements:

• Minimum 2+ years experience of
• Experience of developing web and windows forms
• Minimum 2+ years experience of SQL server 2000, including T-SQL and stored procedures
• Experience of consuming and maintaining XML Web Services
• Experience of working with XML data
• HTML and CSS
• The ideal candidate will be able to work closely to specifications, with full attention to detail and often to tight deadlines
• Mother tongue Japanese with an excellent command of English (and Mandarin if for our Beijing office)

Desirable:

• MCAD/MCSD
• Crystal Reports version 10 or above
• Able to work with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe

The ideal candidate will be given every opportunity to progress their career in a rapidly expanding company, with full support to study for the latest Microsoft Developer qualifications.

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