Supply Chain Solutions Specialist Full Time

The RWS Holdings plc is a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services. Through content transformation and multilingual data analysis, our unique combination of technology and cultural expertise helps our clients to grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language.

Our purpose is unlocking global understanding. By combining cultural understanding, client understanding and technical understanding, our services and technology assist our clients to acquire and retain customers, deliver engaging user experiences, maintain compliance, and gain actionable insights into their data and content.

We work with over 80% of the world’s top 100 brands, more than three-quarters of Fortune’s 20 ‘Most Admired Companies’ and almost all of the top pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, law firms and patent filers. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America. Our 65+ global locations across five continents service clients in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

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Job Purpose

As a Supply Chain Solutions Specialist, you will build and manage customized supply chain solutions enabling client delivery across a range of localization and/or data services projects, as well as support some of the more demanding solutions. This includes, but is not limited to onboarding and qualification, financials, risk, compliance, contracting, reporting and supplier performance management.

You will be expected to take ownership and lead assigned business area or initiative(s), ensuring their performance and/or progress meet expectations.

Key Responsibilities

Job Overview

• Act as a supply chain specialist providing solutions to our internal teams responsible for client delivery.
• Analyze current and future needs on the assigned account or group of accounts and build and/or manage customized supply chain solutions with our existing database of global partners and AI Community.
• Work closely with other internal teams as applicable and keep all information accurate and up-to-date at all times.
• Ensure we keep good relationships with both internal stakeholders and suppliers working on the program you support.
• Provide support to suppliers with client-specific issues and/or processes.
• Proactively flag any risks or potential improvements to our existing workflows and processes.
• Account-specific supplier performance management.

Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of experience related to supply chain management / vendor management / project management or similar role, ideally in localization and/or data services industry.
• Ability to take ownership of assigned area and manage it independently, asking for guidance/support when required.
• Great communication skills, both spoken and written, along with a positive personality.
• Process and results-oriented.
• Fluency in English, both spoken and written.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) – e.g. VLOOKUPs.
• Ability to stay organized and prioritize while engaged on multiple projects at once.
• Ability to work with data, analyse it and draw relevant conclusions / provide recommendations and reports.

Life at RWS

Life at RWS –If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about breaking down language barriers and giving back to their communities, then you’ll love life at RWS.

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career.

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner with colleagues and clients, to adopt a pioneering spirit, to be positive in progressing the work we do, and always to deliver what we promise.

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.