Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Associate Manager, Language Services (Language Management Team)

Thermo Fisher Scientific Language Services is seeking an Associate Manager to lead a global Language Management team supporting clinical and life sciences programs. This role combines people leadership, operational oversight, and strategic partnership to ensure high-quality, compliant, and scalable language solutions across a diverse portfolio of clients and content types. The successful candidate will lead a team of inhouse Language Specialists and play a key role in driving operational excellence, quality, and continuous improvement across integral language services.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead global Language Services operations, providing subject matter expertise to support clinical and business objectives.

- Manage, coach, and develop a team of inhouse Language Specialists through effective delegation, performance management, and career development.

- Oversee team delivery across language management, Quality Check (QC), and QC coordination activities.

- Drive resource planning, workload prioritization, and skill gap analysis to ensure optimal team performance and scalability.

- Monitor team performance through KPIs and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance quality and efficiency.

- Partner cross-functionally with global stakeholders to deliver compliant, high-quality language solutions.





- Act as a strategic liaison between Language Services and senior business leadership, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

- Ensure adherence to internal policies, processes, and regulatory requirements.

- Lead organizational change initiatives and support the evolution of language services operations.

- Manage staff lifecycle activities including hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance evaluations, and employee development.

Education and Experience

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

- Minimum 5+ years of relevant experience in localization or language services (preferably in life sciences or clinical research).

- Minimum 1+ year of people management experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

- Proven expertise in delivering high-quality, on-time language services.

- Strong understanding of CAT/TMS tools, translation workflows, and linguistic quality processes.

- Demonstrated leadership and people management skills, with the ability to coach, mentor, and develop teams.

- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, global environment.

- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

- Experience driving operational improvements and leading change initiatives.

- Solid decision-making and problem-solving abilities.

- Basic financial acumen (resource planning, budgeting, forecasting).

- Strong presentation and facilitation skills.

📌 Associate Manager, Language Services (Language Management Team) (España)
🏢 Thermo Fisher Scientific
📍 España