Associate Project Manager

About Regulated Industries

RWS Regulated Industries is a highly specialized division of RWS, a world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services. The Regulated Industries division is focused on developing translation and content management solutions tailored to address the complex regulatory environment in force with premium sectors such as Life Sciences and Healthcare (pharmaceuticals, medical devices, CROs, healthcare companies), Finance (banks, asset management companies, insurance providers, fintech) and Legal (law firms, audit companies).  

Key Responsibilities

1. Operational Excellence – Delivers small and/or straightforward projects on-time, within budget and with quality to customers, resulting in customer satisfaction. Coordinates the project to include: scoping, estimating, scheduling, budgeting and invoicing and project close. Takes actions to resolve issues and keep projects on track. Gathers necessary information to create and track work orders (e.g., scope, pricing, timeline). Creates and processes project financials, ensuring accuracy and timeliness. Supports senior members of the PMO team delivering larger projects and provides administrative support to the technical resources for projects which are delivered by the technical lead.
   
   
2. Delivers Quality, Value, Results – Uses project management methodologies, tools, and techniques to optimize project quality and profitability. Helps to build customer loyalty and identifies opportunities for improvement.
   
   
3. Functional Excellence – Applies learnings from past projects to improve quality and efficiency. Actively develops skills and competencies to contribute to the overall effectiveness of the team. Contributes suggestions for process improvements within the team.
   
   
4. Relationship Building – Builds relationships with team members and (internal and external) customers and communicates effectively.

Skills & Experience

1. Typically requiring at least a degree or equivalent combination of education and experience unless otherwise stated in the job profiles.
2. Typically requires a minimum of 1-3 years of related experience.
3. Possess knowledge required to solve a variety of common business/ technical issues.
4. Works on problems of moderately complex scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors.
5. Exercises independent judgment within defined procedures to determine appropriate action.
6. Evaluates unique circumstances and makes recommendations.
7. Complexity of business and/or technical issues and degree of independent decision making and actions progresses steadily over time to approximate Experienced career level knowledge and job complexity requirements.
8. Receives little instruction on routine work, detailed instructions on new projects or assignments
9. Completes responsibilities, producing quality results.
10. Demonstrates concern and takes action for meeting and exceeding their customer’s expectations and requirements.
11. Completes work by effectively managing time and resources.
12. Makes timely decisions after carefully considering alternative courses of action, evaluating the facts, goals, constraints, and risks and applying sound judgement and where appropriate seeks managerial steer.
13. Accepts responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work.
14. Follows processes, placing a priority on how things are done.
15. Defines, plans, schedules and controls work for self and/or others to ensure the accomplishment of objectives.
16. Relationship builders who are very self-aware, can inspire others, and can easily build relationships and interact with a wide variety of diverse people in a variety of situations.
17. Successfully achieves results, diligently working to achieve goals and customer success.
18. Effectively expresses ideas verbally in individual and group situations.
19. Expresses ideas clearly in email, reports, letters and other documents.

At RWS, we’re here for one purpose: unlocking global understanding.

As a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services, we remove the barriers to communication to make global connection possible. Our unrivalled experience and deep understanding of language have been developed over more than 60 years. As we look to shape the future, our ambition is to create a world where understanding is universal for everyone.

We work with over 80% of the world’s top 100 brands, more than three-quarters of Fortune’s 20 ‘Most Admired Companies’ and almost all the top pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, law firms and patent filers. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America. Our 65+ global locations across five continents service clients in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors.   

Over the past 20 years we’ve been evolving our own AI solutions as well as helping clients to explore, build and use multilingual AI applications. With 45+ AI-related patents and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, we have the experience and expertise to support clients on their AI journey.

If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about breaking down language barriers and giving back to their communities, then you’ll love life at RWS. Our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong.

We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner with colleagues and clients, to adopt a pioneering spirit, to be positive in progressing the work we do, and always to deliver what we promise. 

RWS Values

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as One RWS.

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