Partner Engagement Manager

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3 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Entry level
Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing
The Role
Manages supplier performance, onboarding, utilization, capacity planning, quality, and delivery across language programs. Partners with Program Squads and Talent Procurement to select suitable suppliers, monitor performance metrics, initiate improvement plans, and support recruitment campaigns. Uses data to optimize supplier allocation and ensure customer requirements, quality standards, and on-time delivery are consistently met.
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Job Responsibilities:

The Partner Engagement Management Team is responsible for measuring, monitoring, and optimizing performance of suppliers within a particular set of languages. Performance includes, but is not limited to, on-time delivery, adherence to all client and project specific requirements, and defect-free deliverables. This Team is responsible for understanding customer capacity requirements as communicated by the Program Squads and liaising with Talent Procurement to ensure such capacity requirements can be met. As part of ensuring capacity, the Supplier Performance Management Team will monitor supplier utilization and advise supplier selection to the Program Squads accordingly. (P3)

MAIN DUTIES

The following is a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities and areas of ownership of Partner Engagement Manager:

  • Through engagement with Program Squad, make data-driven decisions regarding the most suitable suppliers for a specific account and/or content specialty. Suitability may be based on quality, OTD, market / language strategy, capacity needs, content specialty, or client specific requirements.
  • Lead communication and onboarding of suppliers to new client programs, ensuring availability and suitability for such work.
  • Maintain supplier skilling as it pertains to clients / Pantheon (proprietary) programs. 
  • Monitor utilization to ensure supplier usage is in alignment with strategies as defined by Program Operations, Partner Success, and Language Operations. Engage with Program Squads should adjustment in resource usage be necessary.
  • Communicate with and support Talent Procurement in the creation of new recruitment campaigns to identify and onboard new suppliers to Welocalize.
  • Ensure regular quality measuring of suppliers in alignment with Welocalize LQA strategy.
  • Monitor and flag suppliers performing beneath defined Welocalize thresholds.  Supplier performance is inclusive of OTD, time-to-accept task, language quality, adherence to instructions, etc.
  • Initiate Quality Improvement Plan (QIP), RCAs or CAPAs, as needed. If QIP is deemed unsuccessful, inform Talent Procurement.
  • Liaise with Program Squad to understand customer capacity requirements and take appropriate actions to ensure such requirements are consistently met.
  • Responsible for overall performance (internal & external resources) of the languages, capacity planning, resource utilization, OTD, and quality.

REQUIREMENTS

Education & Experience

  • Proven experience in a fast-paced, client-centric environment, ideally in the translation or localization industry.
  • Knowledge of the language services industry and a keen interest in its technology, process, competitive landscape, and emerging trends.
  • Adept at data literacy; ability to understand and utilize data to make decisions.
  • Flexible attitude with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, time-sensitive, and deadline-driven work environment.
  • Problem-solving mindset that can proactively assess and mitigate risk.
  • Can work within a team, contributing to the team's success, or work independently as needed.
  • Ability to prioritize ongoing projects based on business needs and urgencies that can arise.
  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal, fluent in English).
  • Minimum of a BA/BS degree or equivalent experience. 

KEY COMPETENCIES REQUIRED FOR THIS ROLE

  • Is a strong Listener and effective Collaborator.
  • Understands the importance of Objective & Key Results (OKRs) and is Results Orientated
  • Actively drives Performance and Delivers results.
  • Proactively develops clear solutions to complex problems

Additional Job Details:

Skills Required

  • Proven experience in a fast-paced, client-centric environment
  • Knowledge of the language services industry and its technology, processes, competitive landscape, and emerging trends
  • Data literacy and ability to use data for decision-making
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, time-sensitive, deadline-driven environment
  • Problem-solving ability to proactively assess and mitigate risk
  • Ability to work collaboratively and independently
  • Ability to prioritize ongoing projects based on business needs and urgency
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; fluent English
  • Minimum BA or BS degree, or equivalent experience
  • Experience in the translation or localization industry
  • Strong listening and collaboration skills
  • Understanding of Objectives and Key Results and results-oriented work
  • Ability to drive performance and deliver results
  • Ability to proactively develop clear solutions to complex problems

WeLocalize Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Flexible, fully remote scheduling is often highlighted as making earnings more workable for supplemental income. Feedback suggests that the ability to choose hours and work from home offsets some concerns about lower or variable pay.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
2,331 Employees
Year Founded: 1997

What We Do

Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 250,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our people work across offices in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. • Global team of 2,100+ • Offices in North America, Europe and Asia • Quality Certifications: ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, ISO 17100:2015, ISO 13485:2016, ISO 18587:2017 • Accredited professional translators and interpreters for 250+ languages www.welocalize.com

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