Director, Machine Learning

United States of America

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Welocalize

Welocalize helps you transform your content and data so that you can rapidly reach, grow, and engage with global audiences.

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As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 77,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a client portfolio of circa $5M +.
  • Represent Welocalize in customer and industry events and always exemplify the Welocalize 4 Pillars philosophy (i.e. customer service, global teamwork, innovation and quality) in every interaction, internal or external.
  • Create a high performance service delivery team in line with the 4 pillar philosophy. Lead, manage, execute performance management, training and development plans to move their team to the optimum level of performance. They will provide coaching and mentoring to each team member with the specific goal of increasing their proficiency in all required competencies.
  • Customer success governance; ensure delivery teams are meeting or exceeding customer expectations.    
  • Achieve all financial KPIs for assigned business unit/customer portfolio; bookings, revenue, expense, in-process backlog, direct profit and margin.  Utilize business intelligence to monitor customer level performance and direct Client Service Managers to improve performance where required.
  • Collaborate with Customer Success Managers to develop appropriate Strategic Account Management (i.e. SAM) plans and bookings forecasts for each customer.
  • Capacity planning; budget, forecast, monitor and adjust capacity plans to ensure the assigned business unit/customer portfolio has sufficient capacity to meet customer demand.
  • Collaborate with Shared Services and Operations leads to identify and implement operational leverage improvement opportunities.
  • and successful conclusion to all language tests requested by their customers
  • Drive and champion assigned corporate initiatives as selected by the VP, Customer Success.
  • Developing key customer sponsor relationships to foster customer loyalty, business expansion and escalation management.
  • Assist the Sales Team in developing new business opportunities; provide RFP response support, pricing, staffing assignments and any other service delivery obligations required to nurture and win new business opportunities. 
  • When required, provide local office leadership: team building, event planning, office coordination and liaise with office property management to resolve facility related issues.

Experience

  • Extensive localization delivery experience preferred.
  • Proven track record of creating and leading a high growth professional services organization.
  • Vast client relationship management experience, including demonstrated dedication at senior and C-level customer sponsors.
  • Proven ability to think strategically and articulate ideas and plans with the professional maturity to participate at senior management level.  Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills. 
  • Demonstrated people management and leadership experience; track record of strong collaboration skills working effectively in a matrixed organization to deliver customer solutions and business results.
  • Experience and skill in participating in new and existing client sales cycles including presentations, analysis, recommendations and relationship development.
  • P&L management experience; demonstrated P&L accountability.

Supervisory Responsibilites

  • Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
  • Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring and training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
  • Availability to travel for work commitments is a must.

Key Competencies

  • Requires Customer Centric approach and attitude to managing all aspects of the business.
  • Encourages Empowerment of the team.  Supports Escalation from their team in times when standard operating procedures are not able to address customer dissatisfaction.
  • Actively Drives assigned business unit/customer portfolio performance and has a Positive Impact on results.
  • Shows good Negotiation Skills and Situational Awareness
  • Understands the importance of SMART objectives and is Results Orientated.
  • Can establish & Develop Processes and procedures to improve operational efficiency.
  • Understands the need for and can provide Mentoring & Coaching to team members.

Other Relevant Skills

  • Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. 
  • Ability to effectively present information to top management.
  • Ability to consider multiple perspectives in order to devise the most suitable customer, personnel and business strategies.
  • Positive attitude in the face of adversity or change.

Education Level

  • Bachelor’s Degree (Master’s Degree preferred) from a college or university program certificate; a minimum of ten years related professional services leadership experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Tags: Business Intelligence KPIs Machine Learning NLP

Perks/benefits: Career development Team events Travel

Region: North America
Country: United States
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