The Translation & Localization Specialist will support the delivery of accurate, consistent, and culturally appropriate multilingual content across global communication channels, platform assets, and user journeys. This role coordinates localization requests, supports vendor and stakeholder workflows, maintains translation assets and terminology resources, and helps ensure localized content meets brand, quality, and usability standards.
What that means day-to-day:
- Localization Coordination: Coordinate multilingual content requests from intake through delivery, ensuring project requirements, timelines, and quality expectations are clearly defined and tracked.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Work with internal teams and external language partners to clarify scope, resolve questions, and support timely completion of localization deliverables.
- Process Consistency: Help maintain consistent localization practices, documentation, and handoff standards across recurring content types and business needs.
- Vendor Intake & Quotes: Assist in managing localization intake requests, confirming scope and deliverables with vendors, and supporting accurate cost and timeline tracking.
- Production Schedules: Monitor multi-language delivery timelines, track translation project status, and ensure deliverables meet target launch dates.
- Workflow Execution: Facilitate the end-to-end submitter-to-vendor process, ensuring all internal teams follow standard intake, review, and deployment workflows.
- String & Key Handling: Assist in preparing, organizing, and formatting bulk translation keys and string files for platform email assets and CRM communications.
- Asset Readiness: Verify that translated text formatting, placeholders, and variables are preserved prior to integration into CRM/marketing automation systems.
- Glossary Governance: Maintain and update centralized glossaries, terminology databases, and lexicons to promote consistency across translated content.
- Linguistic & Technical QA: Perform quality checks on localized content to verify accuracy, formatting, terminology consistency, regional appropriateness, and adherence to brand tone.
What you’ll need to be successful:
- Education & Experience: 1–3 years of hands-on experience in translation coordination, localization project management, or a related field.
- Localization Tools & Practices: Practical experience with translation management tools, terminology resources, quality assurance practices, and localization project workflows.
- Language Proficiency: High proficiency in English; fluency or native-level knowledge in French or another major language is an asset (written and verbal).
- Attention to Detail: Meticulous organizational skills with a strong focus on data formatting, string management, and linguistic consistency.
- Collaborative Mindset: Strong communication skills to liaise effectively between internal stakeholders and external translation vendors.
What you’ll get in return:
We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasize providing many ways to support our team to do their best work, and believe that if you look after your people, they look after everything else!
>🩺 Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
About
Equal Employment Opportunity We are an equal opportunity workplace. All candidates will be afforded equal opportunity through the recruiting process. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity and/or expression. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team of highly talented individuals and creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. If you are contacted for an interview and require accommodation/adjustments during the interviewing process, please let us know.
Skills Required
- 1-3 years of hands-on experience in translation coordination, localization project management, or a related field
- Practical experience with translation management tools, terminology resources, quality assurance practices, and localization project workflows
- High proficiency in English
- Fluency or native-level knowledge in French or another major language
- Meticulous organizational skills with strong attention to data formatting, string management, and linguistic consistency
- Strong communication skills for liaising with internal stakeholders and external translation vendors
What We Do
We help create better workplaces, and help to keep people safe, reduce risks and simplify processes through our expert teams and technology. Since 1979, we’ve been providing our clients with market-leading compliance and risk management solutions. We have expanded over the years to include certification, accreditation, HR and health and safety consultancy for SMEs, and training expertise, resulting in the Alcumus business that exists today. By building great relationships with our customers, we understand their needs and provide a range of technology solutions, advice and support that helps to identify and minimise risks, navigate compliance and create better workplaces to keep people safe. Our solutions go beyond simple box ticking exercises, where we constantly look for new and innovative ways to support and enhance our clients’ businesses and make it easier for them to keep their workforce safe by embracing new and evolving technology. Our team includes over 1,000 employees across our UK, North American, American and APAC offices. We take great pride in being an inclusive organisation by respecting and appreciating each individual, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, education, or nationality, creating a safe, positive, and nurturing environment. Whether you’re a contractor, SME or multi-national enterprise, we’re here to help create safe and effective workplaces.








