Language Lead

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Job Description

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world\'s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestl\xc3\xa9, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.Our global team of over 6,000 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today\'s content experience.This is an exciting opportunity to work on a prestigious technology brand putting a passion for language andculture into everyday practice. The Language Lead is responsible for leading language services the newlyformed CEMEA region. This involves bringing together a talented team of Creative Directors, Editors andProject Managers and inspiring them to produce at the highest standard.The Language Lead will support the Business Director, along with Hogarth senior leadership, to deliverworld-class marketing communications through knowledge, strategy, and exceptional planning. This rolerequires strategic thinking - the willingness to drive improvements, initiatives, and innovation as well as setand deliver best practice.Key measures of success:
  • Continuous delivery of all CEMEA language projects, striving for excellence at every step.
  • Ensure language quality is maintained at all times.
  • Develop and own a strong strategic partnership with our client teams.
  • Effective team leadership across multiple locations.
  • Implementation of global initiatives, delivering against the business and client needs.
  • Ability to change and influence, ensuring CEMEA is leading the way on the global stage.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Manage a team of Transcreation Account Managers and linguists to ensure an efficient localization set-up to produce high-quality output.
  • Successfully establish a trusted and strong partnership with key clients, and with senior management.
  • Possess a strong understanding of and consistently deliver against all contractual obligations,
  • commercial arrangements, KPIs and SLAs with our client.
  • Build strong internal relationships across Hogarth and ensure successful collaboration of the
  • Language team with other Hogarth functions - essential to Hogarth\'s success.
  • Overall responsibility for the Transcreation Account Managers and linguists to ensure an efficient
  • Review team structure and resource on an ongoing basis, and with the help of data, to ensure client
  • Contribute to quarterly budget planning, re-forecasting, reconciliation and analysis
Requirements:
  • Proven experience in a lead client servicing role with deep understanding of language processes, transcreation and localization, preferably from a linguistic or creative background.
  • Experience in budgeting and forecasting.
  • Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, including confidence in presenting and storytelling to drive change and improvement.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment, ideally from the Language or creative industry, whilst keeping a keen eye for detail.
  • Focus on continuous improvements, delivering excellent quality and high levels of customer service.
  • Agency experience managing international clients in multiple markets with multiple stakeholders.
  • Experience of running an account team including resource planning.
  • People management experience.
  • High level of organization and attention to detail.
  • Fluent written and spoken English - a second language is preferred but not a must.
  • Aligned to our values.
  • Must be able to travel as required.
Diversity and InclusionHogarth is committed to diversity and inclusion, through our ideas, our people, how we behave and conduct ourselves. Creating a truly inclusive culture at all levels of the organisation that encourages different points of view, making Hogarth not only a better company and place to work but an environment where everyone experiences connection, opportunity and a sense of belonging.Hogarth ValuesHeart and Soul: We love what we do. We bring energy and enthusiasm to all our work. We push boundaries, we are never satisfied and always want to find a better way.Hands on: We don\'t wait for things to happen, we get on with it. We are pragmatic and don\'t have an ego. We do what it takes to get the job done to the highest standards.Honest: We are straightforward; we speak openly and clearly. We operate with integrity and live up to our promises.Happy family: We enjoy working together. We look out for our colleagues. We are an eclectic bunch. We want to work with people from many cultures and demand great things of each other. Even when things get tough, we don\'t lose perspective or our sense of humour.Hungry: We are an inquisitive community. We want to create an environment which inspires ourselves and others to be better. It is important to continuously challenge ourselves and our ways of working. We aim to provide staff with the opportunities to develop and learn.Find out more at www.hogarth.com/cultureDiversity & InclusionHogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.Please contact if you need the job advert or form in another format.DataWe rely on legitimate interest as a legal basis for processing personal information under the GDPR for purposes of recruitment and applications for employment.When you click the "Submit Application" button at the bottom of this page, this will send all the information you have added to Hogarth WW. Before you do this, we think it\'s a good idea to read through our Privacy . This explains what we do with your personal data when you apply for a role with us, and, how you can update the information you have provided us with or how to remove it.

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  • Job Id
    JD1651405
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
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  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Education
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