Senior Linguist
ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.
ICON Plc is seeking an English>Japanese (Japan) Lead Linguist to join our Language Services team. The linguist will play a critical role in effectively driving and communicating evolving customer requirements, and in unifying the style, tone, terminology, and quality across the Japanese translation. The main duty is to establish and maintain strong and collaborative working relationships with a client’s language counterparts. The preferred candidate will use critical thinking in collaborating with project teams to enable quick-turnaround translations with consistent high quality on Japanese language-related assignments. This is a full-time position based in Japan, with expectation to work in the office on occasions.
What you will be doing
・ Provides quality assurance and review services to validate linguist quality produced by other team members or by external service providers.
・ Creates and maintains all the language assets such as translation memories, glossaries, dictionaries, and other reference materials.
・Create an effective feedback loop between client and internal stakeholders.
・Work with clients to understand their requirements and preferences and convert them into terminology and glossary for others to follow consistently.
・Identifies and develops plans for addressing operational process improvements.
・Implement and manage quality control processes to maintain the accuracy and consistency of translations.
・May train other members of the team.
・Provides linguistic, translation, and revision services including post-edit reviews of machine translation outputs.
・Handle multiple ongoing translation projects simultaneously.
・ Support/lead training sessions to ensure ongoing development and adherence to industry standards.
・ Exhibit strong mindset towards production processes and quality assurance.
Your Profile
・ Bachelor’s degree in Translation, Linguistics, or a related field.
・ Excellent command of the English and Japanese languages.
・ 5 years of relevant full-time professional translation experience within the
medical/pharma/clinical research fields.
・ Previous project and/or account management experience within the translation industry is preferred.
・ Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
・ Proficient in computer-assisted translation software.
・ Familiarity with machine-translation software is preferred.
What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.
In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.
Our benefits examples include:
- Various annual leave entitlements
- A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
- Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
- Life assurance
- Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.
Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.
At ICON, diversity, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative which helps us better serve our people, patients, customers, and our communities. We're proud of our diverse workforce and the work we’ve done to become a more inclusive organisation. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.
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