In recent decades, the translation market has undergone notable changes as a result of the process of globalization. Several agents enter into play in this scenario, which has led to the need for project management as a method of organizing work. In spite of the fact that this method has been used in other sectors, research in our discipline has paid scant attention to project management, in part because the one-off and temporary nature of the projects and the characteristics of the sector make it difficult to draw conclusions. This is emphasized further when looking in detail at the competences of a project manager (PM). To address this gap in the research, in the present study the results of an analysis of a corpus of job advertisements directed at translation project managers are presented, in order to understand how employers describe the competencies required of a PM. The corpus is made up of a total of 100 advertisements, which were analyzed using the technique of content analysis, and compared with the competences described in the translation and project management literature. The data extracted can be used to define a project manager’s competences in this area.