Senior Transcreation Manager

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end transcreation delivery across markets, aligning scope, quality, and speed with clients while building a scalable regional team and improving workflows.

  • Ownership: Plan and execute multi-market transcreation programs, ensuring on-time, on-quality delivery.
  • Team & Process: Allocate work, mentor staff, and drive process improvements across the language-services function.
  • Quality & Client alignment: Maintain brand tone and creative intent through QA, stakeholder communication, and KPI-driven performance.

Job Description

  • Lead the end-to-end planning and execution of transcreation projects, monitoring progress, resolving issues proactively, and ensuring on-time, on-quality delivery across all markets and channels
  • Allocate work to in-market copywriters, transcreators, translators, and editors, managing the full project lifecycle with clear communication and robust tracking
  • Quality check transcreations at key project stages, ensuring creative intent, tone, and brand standards are maintained across languages and markets
  • Liaise with clients to discuss and agree scope of work, managing and exceeding expectations in alignment with the Transcreation Director
  • Communicate project status and workflow clearly to multiple internal and external stakeholders, providing accurate reporting and data analysis to inform project strategy
  • Mentor and develop a team of Transcreation Managers and Transcreation Executives, building capability in resourcing, project execution, and client management
  • Provide guidance on recruitment targets to support project and team needs
  • Work with the Transcreation Director to set and track personal KPIs, contributing to the ongoing development of the language services team
  • Build strong, long-term relationships with in-market creatives and talent across the global network
  • Contribute to process improvement, identifying opportunities to improve workflows, quality standards, and client satisfaction
  • A proven track record in transcreation, localisation, or multilingual creative project management, with experience delivering complex projects across multiple markets and channels simultaneously
  • Strong project or account management skills, with excellent organisational ability and the capacity to manage competing priorities across a varied project portfolio
  • Experience managing and developing a team, with the ability to give clear, constructive feedback and support the professional growth of junior colleagues
  • Solid vendor management experience, including sourcing, briefing, and managing freelance creatives and language service providers
  • Familiarity with CAT (Computer-Assisted Translation) tools and their application in creative transcreation workflows
  • A good working understanding of localisation and creative production processes across marketing channels, including digital, social, broadcast, and print
  • Strong communication skills across formats, including client-facing conversations, written briefs, and stakeholder presentations
  • Professional proficiency in one or more languages in addition to English is highly valued
  • Budget and financial management: Experience managing project-level budgets, including forecasting, cost estimation, and financial tracking
  • Confidence negotiating with freelance suppliers and language service partners to deliver value without compromising creative quality
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INSIDE IDEAS GROUP LTD

The Inside Ideas Group (IIG) – which includes leading in-housing company OLIVER, global content agency Adjust Your Set, experience and engineering company Dare and property marketing specialists Aylesworth Fleming – exists to transform brands’ business performance through the use of smarter solutions, delivered from the inside. IIG joined the world’s first brandtechTM group You & Mr Jones in 2019. You & Mr Jones holds majority stakes in five segments of the technology marketing sector: in-housing (OLIVER), data (55), consultancy (Blood/55), content creation and distribution (Mofilm, theAmplify, Gravity Road, Mobkoi) and has strategic investments in several leading technology businesses including Pinterest, Niantic, AI Foundation, VidMob, Jivox, Zappar, EVRYTHNG, Automat, Beeswax, and Gfycat.

Founded in 2004
London, England, GBR
339 employees (138 in marketing)

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
36 (11% of company)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44%
Direct
44.1%
Referral
7.5%
Social
3.3%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~339
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Senior Transcreation Manager

INSIDE IDEAS GROUP LTD · London, UK · Hybrid