What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Print Production Manager position at KERN Agency - LA | DAL | NY?
The KERN team is growing! We are looking for KIND, SMART and CREATIVE talent to join our ranks.
The Senior Print Production Manager is responsible for sourcing vendors, establishing long term direct relationship contracts with vendors, building pricing templates based upon company’s offline product line, and purchasing printed materials in accordance with process and procedures. Achieve and maintain its strategic vision of being a low cost, high value producer of offline integrated direct marketing services. Executes the strategy that supports service delivery, client profitability, and client satisfaction, sharing of best practices across clients.
What you've got:
- Establish job parameters, including production specifications, vendor limitations, and net/gross pricing.
- Review all projects with Project Manager to confirm clarity, production timeline, and postal approval.
- Investigate potential suppliers and recommend those most desirable based on knowledge of manufacturing limitations, supplier facilities, and schedule availability.
- Adhere to changes, and re-bid/re-price job, or work with the Account Team, to ensure pricing guidelines remain consistent with the contract and overall TKO profit goals.
- Monitor jobs, along with Project Managers, for accuracy, completeness, and quality.
- Reconcile jobs with team at completion of campaign
- Attend press checks (when appropriate)
- Ensure verbal orders are not accepted or given, without written backup.
- Secure, on all contracts, a precise, written estimate from the dm print vendors, and prepare them in accordance with the pricing and gross margin guidelines
- Assist the Project Managers as needed, and consult with Creative, designers and our current cadre of suppliers to resolve questions on formats and/or print specifications.
What you've done:
- Ability to develop cost and time estimates, accurate printing specifications, and agreed-upon and approved timelines.
- Ability to develop and refine all pricing templates with current paper and postage rates.
- Ability to resolve vendor issues, in a professional manner that ensures continuing good relationships. This includes, but is not limited to, changes to pricing that differ from original written estimate, negotiating discounts for errors, working with vendors to identify quality control process issues and their resolution, and maintaining open communication on the changing needs of TKO clients.
- Ability to aggressively seek out new ideas, formats, vendors or solutions which could help the company increase its strategic advantage or improve its results to the agency’s clients
- Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from a four-year college or university or related experience Have at least 10 years of diverse experience buying and supervising a wide variety of direct mail and collateral projects.
Wondering what we're like? At, KERN we are:
- Kind: We understand that our clients and our employees all have unique experiences that have shaped them. Seeking ideas from every corner of the agency allows our people to be comfortable being themselves every day.
- Smart: We know that the best and brightest thinking is what elevates our work. When our teams come together, we amplify individual strengths to deliver innovative solutions for our clients, and pivot if we’re off-strategy
- Creative: We believe in pushing boundaries, reimagining the customer experience through insightful work, and measuring success with precision analytics. We think bigger and we deliver more.
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