Overview
A rapidly-growing print production company based in Kingston are looking for a strong administrator with experience within the print industry to join them as an Office/Production Manager.
Salary: £28,000 + £3,000 bonus
Key Responsibilities
- Keep track of the production schedule to ensure all jobs are booked in for production and will be delivered in line with customer expectations
- Take responsibility for quality control
- Liaise with customers and suppliers and renegotiate timings as necessary
- Distribute jobs to production tasks according to skills and availability
- Help train production staff in relevant skills (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite)
- Maximise efficiency and cost effectiveness of production
- Ensure adequate stock of supplies are available
- Ensure costs including supplier billing and wastage are controlled
- Manage hired equipment availability using equipment roster
- Help deliver on customer expectations, deal with issues that may arise
- Help improve customer communications
- Assist with production tasks to help meet deadlines
- Producing quotes
Required Skills/Experience
- Adobe Creative Suite (particularly InDesign)
- Experience working in the print industry, ideally in a digital production capacity
- A professional manner with strong customer-facing and problem resolution ability
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Experience with VDP software (not essential)
- Strong Excel and data management ability (not essential)
In order to be put forward for this or any of our positions, you will need to come in and register in our office in Kingston.