Company Description
About M3 Inc:
Founded in 2000, with start-up investment capital from Sony, M3’s mission is to make use of the internet to increase, as much as possible, the number of people who can live longer and healthier lives, and to reduce, as much as possible, the amount of unnecessary medical costs.
M3’s legacy lies in the power of trusted physician platforms. Around the world, M3 organisations leverage these highly engaged digital communities to deliver medical education, job placement, and market research, to improve global patient outcomes.
This role is part of MED PLANET, a Lyon based fieldwork agency and a wholly owned subsidiary of M3 Inc. MED PLANET is a leading provider of data-collection services for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. We specialize in conducting both qualitative and quantitative market research in France.
Job Description
As a Translation Project Manager at MED PLANET you will coordinate the workflow of our translation services from request to delivery and assure the highest quality throughout the entire service chain. In addition to the management of translation projects, this role will include procurement, cost control, invoice validation, and direct communication with clients and internal stakeholders.
Depending on the quantity of projects managed, you may also have to be involved in translating documents from English to German/Spanish/Italian and vice versa.
Your specific duties will include the following:
- Responsibility for the management and control of the freelancers on all translation work allocated to you, ensuring that MED PLANET achieves and exceeds client expectations
- Scheduling resources for translation and proofreading
- File preparation for translation i.e. masking/locking of text irrelevant for each target language
- Maintenance of translation memories
- Building and developing a network of experienced and reliable freelance linguists
- Vetting process and rates negotiations
- Setting up and maintaining linguists’ accounts in our supplier system
- Responsible for the quality control of translations
- Making sure client standards are met and deadlines are respected
- Delivery of excellent client services
- Participation to production when necessary
- Undergoing of adverse event training when requested by the end clients
Qualifications
- Higher education in translation, linguistics, native German
- Project management skills
- Good knowledge of a CAT-tool, preferably SDL Trados Studio
- Familiarity with the translation industry
- Comfortable with PEMT (post edition of machine translation)
- Ability to work independently
- Strong multitasking and networking skills
- Proficiency in English, since this is the official company language and all communication with clients is in English.
Additional Information
Employee Benefits:
- 25 days Annual leave entitlement
- You will be eligible to participate in the quarterly bonus scheme upon completion of your probationary period. This will be paid quarterly once probation has been passed.
- You will be entitled to all statutory benefits as required by French law, plus 25 days’ annual leave plus public holidays and Private health insurance.
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What We Do
M3 USA believes in growth, for our company and for the people who drive it's success. Founded with the goal of changing the world of medicine by leveraging the power of the internet, the M3 Group, of which M3 USA is a part, provides comprehensive, leading edge, digital services to the healthcare and life science industries. We reach over 2.5 million doctors through our physician websites across the US, Asia, and Europe.
M3 offers a variety of proven ways to engage physicians and get important clinical and marketing messages to valued, targeted audiences. Our live programs are delivered by clinical educators who are credentialed healthcare professionals. They provide strategic solutions to address the gaps that occur in clinical practice in the management of chronic diseases while also improving access for sales representatives. Those solutions include disease state knowledge, appropriate patient diagnosis, adherence, best practices, treatment to guidelines and REMS programs. Our digital health information services that include: the most up-to-date daily, indexed clinical information/news; medical education; market research; ethical drug promotion; clinical development; job recruitment and clinic appointment services.
M3 Inc. is a publicly traded company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a global leader in digital solutions in healthcare and has acquired dozens of companies across the globe. M3 Inc has had consistent growth since inception in 2000, with over 500 million dollars in revenue. Our great success is due to the skills and the high performance of our people, and has helped us attract some of the world’s leading talent from the most respected universities and Fortune 100 companies.