Candidate of the Week - Print Manager, Sydney

Career Objectives
Seeking a senior management role within an organisation that provides comprehensive print management solutions for the corporate and government sectors. Looking to expand my management expertise and contribute to enhancing YOUR organisations financial performance, brand and reputation for delivering excellent products, services and/or technology innovation. 

Available to commence temporary or permanent assignments for you from January 2010

Summary
Over fifteen years management experience in delivering marketing services, print management and photo imaging solutions. This includes various senior roles within large and small organisations.

Often been directly accountable for service delivery (account management), procurement, production and logistics functions.

A strong track record implementing successful organisational change, improving financial performance and developing customer centric support teams and service offerings.

Highly competent in ascertaining, meeting and communicating business needs at both a strategic and operational level.

A proactive leadership and stakeholder engagement style, a genuine advocate of principles underlying Strategic Sourcing and Lean Production.

Skills & Experience
Lead various diverse business units involving teams of up to thirty (36) people and budgets in excess of $5m. These often included a mixed of sales professionals, support and administration staff, IT technical specialists, printers and logistics operators.

Successfully authored numerous strategic plans; including a plan encompassing a new enterprise business model for printing services worth over $25m annually.

Established and managed various relationship management teams including a field customer support team of nine (9) professionals covering an 8,000 km² territory.

Designed and executed various complex organisation restructures involving staff redundancies, job redesign; retraining programs. Often required to consult at Executive level and negotiate with major suppliers, trade unions and other key stakeholders.

Accountable for budget development, reporting on variances and realising desired bottom-line results; often required to design, analyse and report forecasts.

Undertaken many comprehensive and complex expenditure and market analysis related to print and marketing services or logistics spend categories.

Project managed and authored many tenders. Often been required to define stakeholder or enterprise specifications, T&Cs, develop supplier evaluation processes, lead contract negotiations, develop service level agreements, delineate KPIs, draft actual agreements and oversee ongoing supplier performance reviews. 

Lead many strategic sourcing initiatives involving cross-functional stakeholders at all levels within the organisation. These included two complex outsourcing deals that involved a mission critical distribution centre (38 staff) and a contemporary offset printing manufacturing facility (18 trade staff).


email.  sydneyprintleader@yahoo.com.au