Print Production Coordinator

Duration: 12 Months

The Print Production Coordinator is responsible for ensuring effective planning, execution, project management, vendor management, and distribution of all printed materials for U.S. Marketing and Commercial teams. The Print Production Coordinator executes a high volume of projects while interacting and communicating with print partner vendors and internal customers. The ideal candidate is highly organized, excellent at multi-tasking, comfortable working in a deadline driven role, and able to work effectively as a team member. This individual should possess comprehensive knowledge of the printing industry and related technologies and will work to help instill technical print knowledge in the design team. The position is responsible for facilitating effective routing and scheduling of projects through print and production per established workflow and processes

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with brand managers, external agency partners, and vendors to successfully manage and execute print programs.
• Performs all planning, production and execution of multiple master schedules for marketing materials
• Management of print partner vendors to execute production of marketing materials and printed products
• Ensure print partners and warehousing vendors are accountable for meeting critical production schedules
• Ensure Client’s jobs are produced on-time with the highest level of service and quality.
• Ensure print specifications are complete and accurate.
• Review documents as they are produced to ensure quality standards are met.
• Collaborate with the project team to develop most effective print solutions for accurate and efficient delivery.
• Works with vendors to ensure continuous improvement and optimal production solutions for new and existing marketing materials and concepts.
• Manages printers to ensure high quality, cost effective and timely production.
• Processes and tracks samples, prototypes, electronic templates and printer proofs with vendors and agencies.
• Communicates supply chain and production issues to marketing teams and coordinates solution implementation.
• Works with team and vendors to develop packaging, fulfillment and postal solutions along with costing analysis.
• Tracks print spend across projects and brand teams.

Skills

• Expert color analysis skills and extensive experience with prepress and a variety of printing processes.
• Ability to track and manage multiple assets and versions for quality and sign off.
• Communicate fully, effectively and diplomatically, and exhibit proactive, solution-oriented thinking and execution.
• Work collaboratively with others, maintains professional demeanor under pressure and in situations of ambiguity.
• Demonstrates outstanding quality control practices.
• Excellent eye for design consistency.
• Possess excellent project management and communication skills.
• Strong ability to focus on accuracy, attention-to-detail, and timeliness.
• Ability to keep manager, team, and stakeholders properly informed.
• Ability to prioritize workload and manage multiple projects from concept through production, in multiple media.
• Ability to occasionally work a flexible schedule due to deadline driven work (i.e., for product launches)
• MS Office, Adobe Creative Cloud
• Veeva Vault (PromoMats)

Qualification

• Required
• Bachelor’s degree in discipline related to functional work or role with 3-4 years of relevant work experience OR demonstrated ability to meet the job requirements through a comparable number of years of applicable work experience.
• Knowledge of conventional and digital print production process of 4 color publications.
• Knowledge of papers/printing processes and techniques.
• Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Preferred
• 5+ years of experience in a marketing and/or agency or publishing, printer, project management or in-house marketing/production environment.
• Bio-Pharmaceutical Industry knowledge and/or similar highly regulated industry
• Knowledge and awareness of the Promotional Review process in the Bio-Pharmaceutical industry (known by numerous names such as PRC, MAP, MLR, etc.)
• Familiarity with P3 application for bidding of print jobs.

Shift: Day