Senior Project Manager

Translations Senior Project Manager

Location : Canada (ideally Toronto or Montreal)

Working hours : 10 : 30am - 7pm EST

Our Client is a leading translation service provider that helps the world’s largest and most prestigious legal, financial and government industries with translation solutions that elevate the way they dobusiness.

Since 2002, we have grown our reputation by forging long term relationships built on trust.

Helping our clients reach their business goals is the foundation of our success.

We have built best-in-class Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) machine translation technology that is

specifically trained for the Canadian legal and financial markets. It delivers complex, industry-

specific translations with unprecedented quality and unmatched speed.

Position Summary

The Senior Project Manager is the front-line relationships manager charged with preserving,

improving client and resource relationships. Our Clients’ partnerships are typically long term in

nature and managing the existing client relationships and striving for an always improved client

experience is the main focus.

The Senior Project Manager enables his team members to successfully manage their respective

projects and acts as the escalation point and subject matter expert for any questions and guidance for his team as well as the main coordination between his team and other departments.

Principle Responsibilities and Duties

Everything we do in project management is focused on providing an exceptional customer experience. To accomplish this, the Senior Project Manager is fully responsible for the entire life cycle of the client experience for all projects in his / her area.

1.Project Planning

The smooth execution of a project depends to a large degree on good planning and ensuring that all stakeholders are in full agreement as to process, budget, timelines, deliverables as well as the agreed method of communication during the project and between project cycles.

For a project manager in the translations business, the proper education of the client is an integral part.

The careful planning and selection of all resources needed to deliver the project within the timelines and within budget.

2.Execution

The Senior project manager oversees the execution of his own projects as well as the projects

executed by his team members and is ultimately responsible to keep all stakeholders informed and aligned as to timelines, details, and any needed coordination throughout the execution phase.

3 .Project completion and follow-up

Upon successful completion and delivery of the project, the Senior Project Manager ensures that any follow up calls are done with the involved stakeholders.

4.Client Relationship

For any recurring and / or contracted clients, the Senior Project manager is fully responsible for

maintaining the relationship with the clients and all requesters. Here again the Senior project manager ensures that all prep work, agreements and planning is done well ahead of the start of project

execution.

Qualifications

Education :

College diploma, university degree or equivalent

Bilingual (English / French) mandatory requirement

Experience and Proficiencies :

7+ years of experience in Localization Project Management, managing complex projects

involving multiple stakeholders

Technical, Transportation, communications or SaaS industry experience

Experience dealing with middle managers and senior managers in client / partner relationships