Localization Quality Manager - Polish Language

Expedia Group

Place of work
Prague 8, Czechia
Contract type
full-time

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Looking to combine your excellent language, editorial and project-management skills, top-notch customer service abilities, and technology interests into one great job? The Localization Quality Manager position offers this mix in a fast-paced, multi-cultural and productive environment. The successful candidate will work together with our internal teams to allow all Expedia Inc. brands to operate with a truly global ‘Best in Class’ localization quality solution.

Job Description
• Be accountable for and own the quality of content and User Interface for Expedia Inc. branded sites in their specific language.
• Ensure their translation team follows GSO (Global Supply Operations) quality processes and necessary guidelines and instructions.
• Exhibiting strong leadership, this individual will create strong internal and external business relationships in support of business objectives, and lead a culture of continuous improvement and quality monitoring/ improvement.
• Responsible for liaising with the stakeholders regarding quality issues and establishing a solid review cycle, assessing the feedback from internal clients together with Project Managers.
• Ability to balance and prioritize multiple requests from various stakeholders across brands.
• Manage terminology, glossaries, reference materials and style guides for their specific language.
• Translation of locale specific content for Expedia Inc. branded websites
• Copywriting of Point of Sale specific marketing, merchandizing and promotional copy in native language.
• Translation and maintenance of Social Media content (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) as required by POS.
• Ensure all samplings and QA results are documented and reported to the necessary stakeholders. In the event of fails at sampling level, the Localization Quality Manager will need to decide on a series of actions to be taken to improve the quality.

What you’ll do

• Minimum 1 - 2 years in the ecommerce/localization industry.
• Writing/editing experience, preferably in e-commerce content development
• Degree in Translation/Linguistics/Computational linguistics or equivalent relevant experience
• Working knowledge of Translation Memory software and translation processes
• Experience of working in a global environment
• Good at handling people: team building, conflict resolution, stakeholder management, negotiation, and decision making.

Who you are
• Excellent organizational, communication and task management skills
• Ability to grasp technical concepts
• Problem solving
• Able to work independently
• Process improvement
• Presentation to variety of audiences.

Why join us:

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them the tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

If you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry, this is the job for you.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)

Language skills

English - Proficiency (C2) and Polish - Proficiency (C2)

Personality requirements and skills

Experience:
Solid experience in the ecommerce/localization industry as a manager/senior team leader
Extensive writing/editing experience, preferably in e-commerce content development
Degree in Translation/Linguistics/Computational linguistics or equivalent relevant experience
Working knowledge of translation memory software and translation processes
Experience of working in a global environment
Very strong communication skills. Expertise in English written and spoken communication: e-mail, status reports, conference calls, proposals, etc.
Quality focused with experience of copywriting in their native language desirable
Ability to give clear, concise and constructive feedback
Critical Competencies:
Selecting & Building High Performing Teams

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Brief description of the company

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Number of employees

1000 and more employees
ID: 3423817  Datum zveřejnění: 24.1.2020