Description
We are seeking an experienced Senior Translation Project Manager to lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of clinical document translations in a highly regulated global environment.
As a Senior Translation Project Manager, you will partner closely with Medical Writing teams, business stakeholders, and translation service providers to ensure high-quality, compliant, and timely translations while driving innovation through AI-enabled translation technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and coordinate clinical document translations in-line with Takeda standards, ensuring adherence to regulatory guidelines and priorities.
- Act as the point of contact between internal/external stakeholders, including medical writers, other requestors of clinical document translations, and translation service providers.
- Coordinate the planning, collection, and follow-up of translation requirements in close collaboration with all stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with translation deadlines, budget constraints, and quality controls.
- Provide project management support and expertise to Takeda clinical teams in translation.
- Contribute to the implementation and improvement of Takeda's translation tools, including the implementation and management of Takeda's AI enabled translation platform.
- Thoroughly analyze and assess deliverables from the AI translation platform, ensuring exceptional quality and high accuracy of translations.
- Coordinate Subject Matter Expert (SME) review of post-AI translated documents within the AI translation platform.
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience in clinical/regulatory document translation and/or bilingual quality control (QC), along with at least 2 years of translation project management experience within a complex, highly regulated, and multicultural environment.
- Strong familiarity with clinical and regulatory document types, including Protocols, Investigator's Brochures (IB), Clinical Study Reports (CSR), and CTD Module 2 Clinical Summaries and Overviews.
- Proven project management capabilities, including end-to-end project planning, scheduling, scope and change management, risk mitigation, and vendor oversight.
- Strong understanding of data protection, compliance, and controlled document management practices.
- Business-level proficiency in Mandarin (spoken), Simplified Chinese (written), and English (spoken and written).
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
- Hands-on experience with Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools, QA tools, translation memory (TM) and terminology database (TB) import/export processes, as well as AI-enabled translation platforms.
Benefits:
- Competitive base salary and performance related incentives
- Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable
- Retirement and pension plans
- Life assurance and disability coverage
- Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources
- Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways