At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on - now and in the future.

The Language Services (LS) organization has a role for a Language Manager. This role will be overseeing and managing the operations and resources of a global translation team. The Language Manager will drive the global multi-lingual asset strategy and will be the ultimate owner of PPD’s language quality strategy. The Language Manager will build strong relationships with Country teams to ensure translators are fully integrated with the Study teams and perform the final quality checks on any given project.

This role is for a seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization, who resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways. This position focuses on optimizing performance, processes, behaviors, and decision making in order to achieve departmental business goals and objectives.

Main Responsibilities

• Provides leadership or oversight with strong linguistic background and ensures development and deployment of solutions that achieve business needs and objectives. Comes with strong background in multilingual TM, Glossary and Style Guide strategy.

• Manages team of translators by accounting for work assignments, staff development, resource planning and accountability, performance management and skill gap analysis.

• Leads, manages, and empowers through effective delegation to attain high performance and delivery for managers, team(s) and all participants.

• Directs the delivery of solutions in a collaborative cross functional global environment and builds strong partnerships with Country offices around the Globe.

• Acts as a liaison between the team and business leadership. Provides progressive updates and aligns the team with the overall business objectives of the department and company.

• Contributes to overall department strategy, implementation and operations.

• Assists in the annual budget development process.

• Interprets, administers, trains and coaches compliance with policies, processes, and procedures for the team.

• Manages staff, which may include interviewing and selection, job description preparation, professional development, goal setting, performance management, coaching and mentoring, employee counseling, and separations.