Position Overview

The Localisation and Launch Project Manager is responsible for planning and driving delivery for specific launch waves across website go-lives and critical vehicle launches within the content operations programme. The role combines launch execution, cross-functional coordination, and operational ownership of translations to ensure content is delivered accurately, on time, and in line with market and launch requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain detailed plans, checklists, and milestone trackers for assigned launch waves.
• Coordinate launch activity across DX content, development, and market teams to achieve fixed go-live dates.
• Drive progress toward design, content, and configuration freeze points for each launch wave.
• Run launch-focused stand-ups, status reviews, and readiness sessions for assigned launches.
• Identify, manage, and escalate risks and issues that could affect launch delivery or content readiness.
• Support go/no-go decision-making through clear reporting on launch status, dependencies, and blockers.
• Coordinate hypercare activities after launch and contribute to post-launch retrospectives and continuous improvement.
• Raise translation jobs with vendors or tools and ensure work is briefed accurately.
• Apply translation memories, glossaries, and agreed localisation standards across content workflows.
• Track translation progress by market and language, ensuring status is visible and deadlines are met.
• Route translated content to market liaisons and stakeholders for review, follow-up, and timely return.
• Ensure translated and localised content meets quality, brand, and timing expectations for each launch wave.

Requirements:

• Strong project management skills, including planning, scheduling, dependency tracking, and risk and issue management across multiple workstreams, including content, development, and market teams.
• Demonstrable ability to build and maintain detailed plans, checklists, and milestone trackers, and to drive teams towards configuration and content freeze points.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including leading status reviews, readiness meetings, and supporting go/no-go decision-making.
• Hands-on experience with localisation and translation workflows, including raising translation jobs, managing vendors and tools.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to track translation progress by market and language and ensure deadlines and quality expectations are met.
• Ability to identify, manage, and escalate risks and issues, particularly those affecting content readiness, market approvals, and launch-critical dependencies.
• Familiarity with localisation, translation, and market adaptation processes, including terminology management and localisation quality practices.
• Experience working with regional or market-based operating models and multi-market stakeholder structures.
• Proficiency with productivity tools, such as CMS or web platforms, and project management tools such as JIRA or equivalent for trackers.
• Strong stakeholder management capabilities, with the ability to build trust with market liaisons and central teams while balancing local needs with global-first plans.