London, England, United Kingdom
A motivated and adaptable Production Project Manager with over 29 years’ experience. Confident in delivering projects across multiple channels whilst adhering to strict deadlines, but without ever compromising on quality. Highly experienced manager, accustomed to training team members to a high standard. A clear communicator and team player who relishes a challenge and is keen to develop new skills.
• Artworking, pre-flighting and delivering final print ready PDFs for up to 20 magazines and supplements, generating on average over a 1,000 pages, per month. • Creating and maintaining templates in InDesign and Photoshop. • Pre-flighting external advertising artwork and liaising with third parties to ensure supplied PDFs are up to specification. • Image manipulation in Photoshop and Illustrator. • Re-purposing print assets for digital delivery content streams. • Negotiating costs with external suppliers and providing internal forecasting reports to ensure budgets are realistic. • Working alongside Editorial in planning future projects.
As part of August Media, I was TUPEed to Sunday, the content marketing agency, retaining the same responsibilities as below.
• Heading up the production department, creating bespoke production processes for each of our projects for global brands such as IKEA, Christie’s International Real Estate, P&O, City & Guilds, Butlin’s, Best Buy, Flight Centre, O2 and Ocado. • Managing the re-purposing and delivery of digital assets for online and social media usage. Retouching and colour correcting the images where necessary. • Implementing and refining transcreation workflows for IKEA’s global customer loyalty magazine, IKEA Family, which was delivered to 35 markets in 32 languages, with a combined print run of over 2.5 million. • Artworking final files for delivery to external repro suppliers, providing detailed creative briefs and Fogra colour profile standards. Managing the final proof approval process with department heads and external stakeholders, overseeing corrections and final sign-off. • Attending regular site visits of established or potential suppliers. Participating in press passes, proof meetings or planning sessions, often with clients in attendance. • Purchasing repro, print, fulfilment, paper and digital solutions. Keeping up to date with shifting trends and finding creative ways to mitigate price increases on behalf of our clients. Performing regular reviews of costs. • Creating schedules and budgets for the production processes on existing projects as well as pitches. • Managing the traffic of work into a pool of artworkers. • Liaising with department heads for regular process reviews to ensure best working practices and cooperation.
• Clients included: The Big Issue, VCCP, Mitie, Berwin Leighton Paisner and The Communications Agency. • A wide variety of projects undertaken including setting editorial and advertising content for The Big Issue magazine, point of sale for O2 stores, annual reports and accounts for Mitie, in-store promotional materials for Argos and an extensive creative retouching project for Berwin Leighton Paisner’s website.
• Designing weekly and monthly email communications for Barclays Financial Planning, working closely with the digital team. • Artworking in-branch literature, direct marketing, brochures and staff incentive schemes for Barclays. • Art directing photo shoots and commissioning illustrations for delivery across digital and print media.