Procurement

• Maintaining and increasing the pool of global service providers, both freelance individuals and agencies for Language and AI services.
• Looking for suitable collaborators to Centific’s range of services including but not limited to translation, editing, proofreading, machine translation post-editing, language quality assessment, Data labelling, annotation, LLM authoring etc.
• Driving end-to-end recruitment cycle: sourcing, screening, negotiation, and onboarding.
• Running innovative talent attraction campaigns and maximizing all channels with a special focus on social media.
• Processing candidates’ information and assessing their suitability according to our requirements and the specifics of the given accounts.
• Managing translation tests with eligible candidates.
• Managing the negotiation of vendor contracts and rate cards in line with Centific’s scheme and specific projects or accounts.
• Processing and archiving NDAs, MSAs, and other collaboration agreements.
• Recording approved candidates in the vendor database.
• Supporting delivery teams in the communication with resources such as checking availability or chasing for responses.
• Building up language teams for new projects, languages and/or new accounts.
• Negotiating additional rates and discounts when required.
• Building strong relationships with language service providers to keep them engaged and committed to the company.
• Keeping the resource database updated.
• Acting as a point of escalation for collaboration issues or conflicts with vendors.
• Consistently working towards improving tools, technologies, and processes.
• Additional duties as required.

Vendor Management Lead

Procurement Specialist