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Must have9
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Japanese
Advanced problem solving/critical thinking skills
Flexibility and adaptability, ability to work efficiently in a changing business environment
Good interpersonal skills to build relationships at all levels of the organization and externally, with vendors
Ability to effectively multitask in order to simultaneously execute multiple projects
Good organization skills, ability to prioritize and orientation on results
Ability to maintain professionalism and focus under pressure and tight deadlines
Good time management skills
Minimum Bachelor's degree or its equivalent or relevant working experience
Skills
Excel
Word
PowerPoint
PDF
Benefits
Health insurance
Commuter benefits
Paid time off
Birthday leave
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Complete administrative tasks including organization of emails and documents, import/export of data, document creation and maintenance
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Identify/understand project requirements
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Manage simple projects:
o Placing jobs, setting up jobs; calculating and assigning budgets
o Identifying best vendors for the accounts, contacting vendors, negotiate deadlines, and prices
o Creating purchase orders
o Conduct final eye and project delivery upon graduation on regular, special and sample projects
o Final check of deliverables against initial instructions
o Billing: contact vendors to resolve issues such as invoice/word count discrepancies; data entry
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Create and track schedules for individual projects and departments
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Log costs, scores, and general job information onto spreadsheets
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Assess/understand complex job requirements
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Create project plans for internal and external use
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Maintain relationships with vendors: identify, recruit, engage and train vendors for accounts
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Process innovation and improvement, such as creation of macros, new platforms, processes
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Follow-up with vendors, contact the Vendor Management team with any requests, vendor calendar management, expansion of vendor selection and creation of potential vendor lists
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Manage and create specific accounts Translation Memory & Glossary
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Create and maintain reference material
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File preparation: Format using .doc, PDF and .xls files; importing images into Word documents, PPT, etc.
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Identify root causes and communicate findings to the rest of the team
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Identify and anticipate risks (severity, likelihood, early detection)
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Analyze client feedback/root cause and drive appropriate actions
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Assist in Compliance Report investigations
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Actively participate in the implementation of preventive actions
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Actively participate in the creation of immediate corrective and preventive actions
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Share knowledge and expertise with internal and external stakeholders
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Solve technical issues in collaboration with the appropriate support team
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Communicate potential failure modes to stakeholder
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Act to avoid identified failure modes
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Support senior team members in training new employees
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Liaise with internal Machine Translation team for set-up and training
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Utilize Project Directory (PD) effectively (set up new clients, TM, glossaries, etc.)
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Aid other Project Managers in daily tasks as needed
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Complete all other tasks that are deemed appropriate for this role and assigned by the manager/supervisor