Project Manager

Job title: Project Manager

Work Location:

San Jose, California.

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Remote candidates residing and working in the following states will be considered for this position: California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.

About RWS:

RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.

Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

About The Role:

Manages projects delivery in line with client agreement - on time, in the required quality, within budget and with appropriate client treatment and responsiveness.

Responsibilities:

• Supports sales team through developing effective project delivery solutions/proposals including quotas.
• Completes project risk analysis and defines mitigation actions of the risks identified.
• Creates (prepares internal version) of project plans and schedules based on client-specific requirements. Applies appropriate contingencies in planning and resourcing.
• Creates and controls project budgets, does cost tracking, issues Purchase Orders and Invoices, approves work reports.
• In line with project plans organizes, assigns, measures, and monitors work of his/her project team members. Ensures team's compliance with standards, practices, and policies.
• Ensures quality and timelines of team's deliveries, plus team's responsiveness and professional treatment of both external and internal clients.
• Organizes and leads project/client/partner meetings and calls (e.g., kick-offs, weekly, ad-hoc issue-solving, postmortems), records and distributes meeting minutes and monitors delivery of agreed action items.
• Solves issues or disagreements (system or product), identifies causes and sets corrective/preventive action.
• Actively participates on Unit (corporate) management (meetings) - provides data, informs, proposes innovations, provides constructive feedback.
• Regularly monitors clients' satisfaction with his/her team's results and takes improvement actions.
• Participates on creation and implementation of Unit's strategy - owns some of the strategic tasks.
• Trains and coaches junior Project Managers / Project Managers. Creates methodologies, tools, checklists, etc. to improve project management process.

Requirements:

• University degree
• 5 years on Project Management position or relevant management experience on other position.
• 5 years extensive experience managing cross-functional team environment.
• Advanced user skills of Microsoft Office
• Leadership and Management
• Focus on Business
• Focus on Solution and Effectiveness
• Communication and Collaboration
• Openness to Change
• Project Management Certification from a recognized institution is preferred.

Benefits:

• Amazing benefits! (Seriously!)
• Strong medical, dental, and vision coverages, with generous employer contribution to healthcare spending accounts, and access to FSA, HSA, and Dependent Care accounts.
• Generous paid time off package, starting at 25 days per year, plus company holidays, birthday day off, paid volunteer time, and 100% paid parental leave.
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match.
• Company-wide agile work policy with flexible work arrangements.
• Opportunities for training, professional development, and personal growth.
• Smart, engaged co-workers and a global culture of diversity, innovation, and opportunity.
• The rare opportunity to impact how organizations communicate globally. There’s a reason we work with 90 of the top 100 brands.

FLSA Status: Exempt

Actual rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to: position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. Total compensation may also include variable incentives, bonuses, benefits, and/or other perks, as outlined in any formal offer made.

Covid Vaccination:

All RWS employees hired for positions that require working on-site at RWS offices, customer offices, travel on behalf of RWS, and/or in-person meetings will be required to comply with the RWS USA COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Policy. RWS complies with federal, state, and local laws with regard to accommodations related to this policy.

Life at RWS - We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism and determination to never let others down drives us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch.

RWS embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.

RWS is an Affirmative Action Employer.

For more information about EEO/AAP legislation please visit: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf

Recruitment Agencies: RWS Group PLC does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward any unsolicited resumes to any RWS employees. Any unsolicited resume received will be treated as the property of RWS and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such resume will be considered null and void.