Global success doesn’t come from one-size-fits-all solutions. We start with a collaborative discovery session to:

• Uncover Your Pain Points: What are the specific bottlenecks slowing down your multilingual projects or causing costly errors?
• Identify Risks: Are you facing potential legal hurdles or cultural miscommunications in your target markets?
• Define Measurable Objectives: Do you want to increase website traffic in new markets, improve customer satisfaction scores, or streamline internal communication?

Step 2 – Customized Solutions: Your Tailored Path to Growth

Based on your unique needs, we’ll design a custom program. This isn’t just about translation – it’s about understanding your business model. Your solution might include:

• Vendor Selection: Matching you with the perfect translation specialists for your industry and content type.
• Process Optimization: Using technology to improve efficiency and collaboration, saving you time and money.
• Workflow Design: Developing the ideal steps from content creation to multilingual delivery.
• Timeline and Evaluation: Setting clear milestones and success metrics.

Step 3 – Expertly Guided Execution: Your Partner in Progress

We don’t just hand you a plan and disappear. We’re your partners through the entire process, offering:

• Expert Implementation: Our team guides you through every stage, ensuring a smooth rollout.
• Ongoing Support: We’re here for questions, adjustments, and adapting to new challenges as they arise.
• Sustained Growth: Together, we’ll analyze success metrics, celebrate wins, and refine your approach to maximize your global reach.

Translation and localization can be overwhelming. But with a trusted partner and a strategic process, it becomes your key to international expansion. Think of this 3-step model as a roadmap – allowing you to navigate new markets with confidence.

Ready to ditch the translation headaches and unlock your global potential?

Schedule a discovery call with the Ciklopea team today!

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However, without the great, thorough and precious work of our translators and editors, our so special linguists who have many superpowers, Ciklopea’s image and reputation with our clients would never be as good as it is! I say superpowers because our vendors are very often true superheroes.

They are all highly educated and well versed on the subjects of medicine, pharmacy, technology, science, law and other topics. They are all professionals in their work. They are multi-skilled, they master several languages at least at the C1 level. At the same time, they are a bit shy and humble as most of them don’t want to be too exposed by revealing too much of their character or personal life, which we completely understand (and appreciate!).

As a translator at heart, I completely understand all those quiet and sometimes hysterical 🙂 moments of search for the right term on the internet late at night, I remember weekends I spent typing and doing researches about car anatomy, who could ever forget looking up in tons of glossaries and websites?

That’s why we like to think of our linguists as our most valuable partners.

Partnership

It’s great when, starting a new project, you already have in mind the translator who’s going to take care of it! Like a movie director who, having seen the screenplay, knows already who would be the ideal actor for the main role…

We like to call them partners, because they really are more than ordinary service providers to us. We like to get to know them in person, to invite them for a coffee in our offices or to send them a Christmas gift!

Based on their previous experience and interests, our vendors are grouped in teams – medical, technical, legal, business, economy, marketing… But they are all essential parts of our nice story!

Do you have what it takes? Here are the superpowers of a Ciklopea vendor:

1. Internet addict – checks mailbox every two seconds and replies faster than lightning
2. Always available – accepts all projects that the Production Team may offer
3. Savvy  – expert in one or more specialization fields (preferably knows better than any encyclopedia, dictionary or glossary)
4. Frantic typist – types at the speed of thought
5. CAT lover – has many CAT tools
6. Time appreciator – delivers even before the deadline
7. Inquisitive researcher – keen to learn new bizarre terms that he/she may never ever use again
8. Ciklopeafile 😊

Think you can be a Ciklopea superhero? Don’t hesitate to get in touch!

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• Cooperate with internal teams (such as sales and production) to clearly understand the existing and future requirements for resourcing
• Identify and contract suitable freelance suppliers worldwide (translators, reviewers, and other language-related service providers) based on production requirements and corporate sourcing strategy
• Drive a transparent and accountable freelance supply chain
• Communicate with suppliers, answer queries, provide support if needed
• Deliver a positive supplier and client experience via timely delivery against business requirements
• Ensure all required information is entered into our information systems and always kept up-to-date
• Research market trends, monitor and track new services offered by suppliers
• Build end-to-end supplier strategy
• Build outsourcing strategy depending on clients’ needs
• Create market strategy based on location/country in cooperation with the sales team
• Coordinate supplier resources for production
• Monitor suppliers’ performance and communicate it (feedback)
• Act as an escalation point for project managers regarding issues related to freelance resources
• Sales support during the tender process (communication with vendors, administrative support, price negotiation)
• Personnel administration
• Answering employee and vendor requests and questions
• Assisting with new employee hiring processes
• Assisting with the recruitment and interview processes

What you should have

• At least 2 years of experience recruiting and searching for candidates/freelance suppliers based abroad are required
• Experience searching for candidates via various sourcing methods
• Strong networking skills
• Strong negotiating skills
• Previous experience working in an international environment is a big advantage
• Upper-intermediate English verbal and written communication skills
• Communicative and driven, with a sense of urgency, a ‘get things done’ attitude, and proven negotiation skills
• Flexible, innovative, and culturally savvy
• Result-oriented
• Advanced MS Office skills (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Ability to multitask and meet deadlines while working under pressure

Location

Zagreb, Croatia

Starting Date

1 December 2018

Please send your CV and cover letter to hr[at]ciklopea.com and don’t forget to specify the position you are applying to in the email subject field.

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