Localization Specialist

Passionate about language and tech—and ready to help teams localize smarter?

Want to shape scalable solutions and empower global teams?

About the team

Our central localization technology and expertise service delivers core localization infrastructure, linguistic assets, and expert guidance to teams across Elsevier. Since launching in 2021, we have rapidly expanded our support to a wide range of stakeholders, products, and use cases. Joining a small but high-impact, two-person team, you’ll play a key role in scaling our offerings and deepening our expertise.

We are part of the Operations, Data Science Health team but support teams across the entire business. This diverse and globally distributed group works in a matrixed environment to deliver scalable data science and localization solutions for clinicians, researchers, and students. The Localization Specialist will report to the Localization Solutions Manager (based in Amsterdam).

About the role

As a Localization Specialist, you will play a critical role in driving our global strategy and supporting our company’s international growth. Our localization service is based on a self-service model: we empower teams by providing the tools, language data assets, and localization expertise support they need to independently execute and scale their localization initiatives. In this role you’ll collaborate cross-functionally within a global matrixed environment, working with a variety of internal stakeholders ranging from content, product, data science, and technology teams, as well as external technology and language service providers.

Responsibilities

• Providing expert consultation on localization processes and best practices, helping teams integrate localization technologies and AI solutions into their workflows;
• Delivering day-to-day support, training sessions, and workshops to enable teams to adopt and excel in localization practices;
• Creating, managing, and enhancing language data assets to support scalable, high-quality localization;
• Acting as a bridge between content, technology, and vendor partners, facilitating clear communication and efficient localization operations.

One of your first projects will be supporting the implementation and onboarding of teams to a new video localization tool. This will involve creating glossaries, testing and monitoring quality, developing training materials, and conducting onboarding sessions to ensure successful adoption across teams.

A passion for combining language and technology is essential, as you’ll frequently advise teams on innovative solutions and the latest advancements in localization. Equally important is a proactive mindset: you take initiative, anticipate needs, lead discussions with stakeholders, and continuously seek out knowledge even in new or complex areas. This role has a lot of opportunities for growth with room to shape your own initiatives, deepen your expertise in areas of interest and gain broad exposure to a wide range of localization activities and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Hands-on localization project management experience preferably in a technology-driven environment; internationalization experience is welcome;
• Familiarity with localization technologies (e.g., TMS, NMT/GenAI, video localization) and best practices;
• Experience creating and managing linguistic assets such as TBs, TMs, and style guides;
• Comfortable learning and advising on new technologies and processes, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders;
• Experience delivering training, creating instructional materials, and supporting non-experts in adopting new tools or processes is welcome;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English;
• Proactive, self-driven, and resourceful—comfortable taking initiative, solving problems independently, and seeking out learning opportunities;
• Adaptable and able to communicate effectively across functions in a fast-paced, matrixed, and globally distributed environment;
• Good organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Dutch Share Purchase Plan
• Annual Profit Share Bonus
• Comprehensive Pension Plan
• Home, office or commuting allowance
• Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
• Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
• Flexible working hours
• Personal Choice budget
• Variety of online training courses and career roadshows
• Wellbeing programs and gym facility in the office
• Internal communities and networks
• Various employee discounts
• Recruitment introduction reward
• Work from anywhere
• Employee Assistance Program (global)
• Annual Event

About the Business

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

About Us

Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals advance healthcare, open science and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. We help researchers make new discoveries, collaborate with their colleagues, and give them the knowledge they need to find funding. We help governments and universities evaluate and improve their research strategies. We help doctors save lives, providing insight for physicians to find the right clinical answers, and we support nurses and other healthcare professionals throughout their careers. Elsevier provides digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, and professional education; including ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, ClinicalKey and Sherpath. Elsevier publishes over 2,500 digitized journals, including The Lancet and Cell, 38,000 e-book titles and many iconic reference works, including Gray’s Anatomy. Elsevier is part of RELX Group. With a wide range of technology jobs, commercial and business jobs, and graduate jobs, there is a part for everyone to play. We need talented people to help us inspire ground-breaking research.

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