Senior Translation Project Manager

Taiwan- (Senior) Translation Project Manager-Homebased

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.

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. This role 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.

You will manage day-to-day project and programme management activities, supporting your team to deliver quality outcomes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead end-to-end management of clinical document translation projects, ensuring quality, compliance, budget adherence, and on-time delivery.
• Serve as the primary liaison between internal stakeholders, medical writers, subject matter experts (SMEs), and external translation vendors.
• Coordinate translation requirements, project planning, resource allocation, and execution from project initiation through completion.
• Monitor translation timelines, budgets, quality metrics, and regulatory compliance requirements across multiple concurrent projects.
• Provide expert project management support to clinical teams, including risk assessment, scope management, and vendor oversight.
• Drive the implementation, optimization, and governance of AI-enabled translation platforms and translation management tools.
• Review, evaluate, and continuously improve AI-generated translation outputs, collaborating with technology and development teams to enhance performance and efficiency.

Your Profile:

You will have solid project management experience, with the ability to manage competing priorities and develop your team.

Required qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Clinical Medicine, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, or a related scientific discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience, including at least 3 years in clinical/regulatory document translation or bilingual quality control and 2 years in translation project management.
• Strong knowledge of clinical and regulatory documentation, including Protocols, Investigator’s Brochures (IB), Clinical Study Reports (CSR), and CTD clinical summaries.
• Demonstrated expertise in project planning, scheduling, risk management, budget management, and vendor management within a regulated environment.
• Hands-on experience with CAT tools, translation memory (TM), terminology management, QA tools, and AI-enabled translation platforms.
• Strong understanding of data protection, document control practices, compliance requirements, and translation quality standards.
• Business-level proficiency in Mandarin Chinese and English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities while collaborating effectively across global, multicultural teams.

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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, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. 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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