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• Corrugated

• Folding Carton

• Flexible

• Ink

• Labels

• Printing

• Protective

• Sustainability

• Supplies

• Machinery

• Executive

• Sales

• Production

• Engineering

• Customer Service

• Design

• Graphics

Other Northeast Area Candidates

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41457 Flexible Packaging Manager/Sales Rep – Candidate is a bilingual (English/Spanish) flexible packaging professional with 20+ years of international manufacturing and sales experience

This candidate has spearheaded national sales campaigns and international foodservice packaging sales, and innovated packaging materials and manufacturing methods in China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brazil and Mexico.  He is creatively driven, with sales experience including the design, sourcing and supply of Subway® packaging products worldwide.  He has been recognized for innovation and dedication to service, and received Vendor of the Year awards from Subway® Sandwiches (DAI).  Career achievements include:

• Annual sales exceeded 50% of previous employer’s gross sales for 10+ years
• Granted a US patent for packaging design (several pending)
• Developed multiple NSF® accredited international locations for manufacturing foodservice packaging
• Awards from SUBWAY®/DAI include Vendor of the Year and Dedicated Service

Qualification highlights:

• Created sales relationships and innovated products for Subway® Sandwiches worldwide
• Identified strategic and competitive sales opportunities
• Identified strategic and competitive offshore manufacturing locations
• Supervised onsite annual certification by NSF/Cook & Thurber HAACP foodservice audit
• Recently created and commercialized a new Earth-friendly foodservice product – EZ PANS
• Bilingual (English/Spanish)

43761 Corporate Operations/Sales/Service/Quality Executive – Candidate has 15 years of experience covering  quality control, customers, suppliers, sales and plant communication

This person is successful at managing large retail customer accounts and coordinating multiple plant operations to ensure high quality results that add value in an efficient and cost effective manner.  Candidate serves as key company contact with major retail customers including Wal-Mart, CVS, Lowe’s and Bed Bath & Beyond.  He travels extensively across the U.S. to customer headquarters and 19 plant locations.  He possesses strong technical and management skills in the printing, retail and manufacturing sectors, and a Bachelor of Science from Rochester Institute of Technology.

42757 Vice President – This printing management professional is an innovative, results-driven executive with extensive experience and demonstrated success in operations, sales and general management.  This candidate is a strategic and creative thinker who can increase profits, grow revenue and control costs in highly competitive environments.  He is a change leader with strong managerial and negotiating skills, and proven results in P&L execution. 

Senior Management and Operational Leadership – Proven record in leading organizations through critical start-up, asset acquisitions and turnaround situations, including:

• Selected to lead the organizational and operations strategy for an organizational start-up, increasing revenues from $9 million to $89 million in four years

• Participated as a key member of acquisition teams accountable for evaluation and synergy strategies, and for managing integration plan execution

• Integrated six acquired organizations with multiple manufacturing sites within a two-year period

• Developed and executed a strategy to reduce the number of facilities from 18 to six, while growing the revenue base, increasing efficiencies and maintaining or improving service levels

• Developed and implemented the integration of offset and digital operations to a distributive printing platform supporting new service offerings and driving synergy savings

• Led change by organizing and motivating personnel, including increased production, and by introducing new technologies and management/leadership practices

• Drove planning and implementation changes across multiple sites to leverage key individuals and critical resources, and increase people and equipment utilization

• Directed organizational P&L and oversaw the processes for estimating, vendor negotiations and new technology development

• Sponsored employee teams and programs to align and standardize manufacturing processes, and developed total quality management programs through planning to execution

• Reduced costs through vendor negotiations and secured equipment procurement which increased market share and opened critical new markets

• Introduced and implemented lean concepts into the manufacturing processes

Sales Leadership – Successful and profitable oversight of commercial sales organization, including:

• Introduced new business and increased existing business while strengthening morale and cohesiveness within the sales force

• Developed a sales goal process and improved manufacturing responsiveness, creating a partnered approach to selling

• Increased client confidence allowing the company to enter new markets

43670 Entry Level Packaging Engineer – This engineer is a 2008 graduate of the Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Science in Packaging

Intern experience includes:

• Exploring new packaging processes and techniques
• Coordinating product shipments
• Ordering and securing inventory
• Streamlining the distribution network
• Exploring packaging materials and properties
• Package evaluation and testing
• Direct package development with suppliers 
• Working closely with finance and marketing

43896 Operations Manager, Printing Industry – This person is a senior level operations manager with an accomplished career in leading employees and leaders in the printing industry; he has been recognized as a leader of innovation and featured in industry publication on print automation, and also has been retained by a Central Michigan University instructor as a speaker to discuss leadership to HR students.

• Manages day-to-day business operations in bindery, mailing and digital press departments, with budgets exceeding $7M
• Establishes and maintains the annual strategic plans for all three areas
• Communicates regularly via tool box discussions, shift meetings and department meetings
• Directly manages and leads six supervisors
• Indirectly manages and leads over 200 hourly employees
• Interviews and hires both hourly and leadership staff in my respective areas
• Spends at least two hours of day on production floor mingling with employees

Offers a hands-on approach to the following areas of business management:

• P&L/financial management
• Budget planning and control
• Relationship building
• Leadership/employee development
• Project management
• Building and sustaining strong cohesive teams
• HR related staff recruitment and training
• Work schedules
• Customer relations
• Lean manufacturing
• Quality assurance
• Safety initiatives and 5S
• Cost control
• Staffing analysis

39838 Sales Engineer – This sales engineer worked through field service, engineering, applications, management and sales in the printing and packaging industry with image processing, registration control and UV curing equipment with great success

Candidate is involved with technical sales and project management.  He increased profit margins by 50% for end user sales by providing turn-key solutions to customers through technical expertise and pooling of resources.  He brought significant value to the engineering community through the writing of bid specifications and educational programs.  After landing several large accounts and projects, he followed the projects through to completion by tracking them through production, delivery, installation and commissioning.

41587 Print Production Manager – This candidate possesses strong technical and problem-solving skills with a personal focus on customer service to consistently deliver quality projects on time and under budget; he manages the complete production cycle including writing RFPs, estimating costs, selecting and managing vendors, purchasing materials, invoicing and managing logistics (shipping and distribution)

Scope of expertise includes:

• Production Management – planning, layouts, impositions, scheduling, quality control, finishing, shipping, distribution, mailing, invoicing, costing, hiring, training, firing
• Vendor Management – paper merchants, prep/proofing, specialized printers (web offset, sheet-fed, digital, outdoor, flexographic, packaging), finishing companies
• Purchasing – negotiating costs for paper, ink, prep, print and outside finishing
• Estimating – direct mail programs, magazine inserts, out-of-home printing, books and brochures including cost of raw materials, pricing grids, specing jobs, RFQs for plants, advertising and marketing agencies
• Computer Skills – InDesign, Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, FileMaker, Hagen, Logic, Programmed Solutions, Pace, Windows, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Personal – effective manager of people and projects, facility with numbers, calm under pressure, known for consistently meeting budgets and deadlines, organized, eye for detail, go-to problem solver

30524 Business Development Manager – This person is responsible for fine coated paper sales for a company focused on board sales; assigned to increase board sales to commercial printers in New England and upstate New York, and increase awareness and sales of coated text and cover, C1S label and board 

Candidate’s background features a record of excellence in major account development and client relationship management in a highly competitive industry.  He is an expert in consultative solution selling; a consistent top performer who is energetic, customer-focused, innovative, results-oriented, goal-oriented and self-motivated.  He possesses outstanding analytical, organizational, communication and motivational skills.  He is experienced in the use of technical and statistical (ROI) information in the sales process.  He is passionate about quality, respected for integrity and credibility, and has a unique ability to understand a customer's needs and deliver true, individualized world class service

43626 President and Founding Managing Partner – This candidate is an MBA educated business professional with a distinguished record of leadership achievement and profitable company performance; he is a detailed strategic visionary who sets aggressive goals, takes decisive action and confronts issues directly

This person is a senior-level sales and marketing executive and business entrepreneur with extensive experience leading cross-functional teams that aggressively drive incremental sales revenue, increase market share and maximize top and bottom-line sales profitability.  He possesses a pragmatic, results-based management style and is known for tough-minded analysis and loyalty.  His experience includes 12 years in executive level positions at Fortune 200 companies and six years as founder and managing partner of a multi-million dollar strategic marketing firm.  Core competencies include: sales and profitability growth strategies, client development and management, strategic partnerships, marketing and channel strategy, team leadership, cross-departmental efficiencies, strategic planning, negotiations, relationship marketing, brand development, and staff and policy development.

38100 National Account Manager – Candidate maintains and develops US national accounts for a global leader in innovative flexible packaging, specializing in confectionary foils, shrink sleeves, cold and heat seal laminations and many additional types of laminated structures

This person is an energetic, dependable, results-oriented achiever with technical prowess, proven leadership, highly developed communications skills and years of progressive successes winning new business, increasing assigned territories, and building long-term client relationships critical to bottom line growth.  He adeptly identifies and targets key demographics to increase market share and generate increasing revenues, and works within a team environment to create effective sales and customer care programs, with emphasis on world-class customer service.  He is an exceptional presenter and product educator who thrives in fast-paced environments.  He specializes in flexible packaging and converter products and services.

43662 Package Development Services – Candidate has global experience in prepress and print management, with creative execution throughout package development, print production, final quality brand management and asset maximization

• Global and multi-disciplinary communications, collaboration and workflow

• Technology integration for creative and process improvement

• Envisioned package development system (Pactrac) for data management, process automation and change management; applied the system to support documentation (e.g. BOMs)
• Applied understanding of ISTA and associated US packaging specifications to package development, allowing for input of specification data and satisfying needs of US customers at multiple locations
• Initiated co-op program for package engineering (and later print production) with Rochester Institute of Technology; drove package structure design and print process innovation among team members as well as global partners
• Drove implementation of Asia-based film separation and print production resources, and followed with design and art production in Asia under US direction

41137 Senior Designer  – Experienced senior designer able to lead a department to a position of industry excellence and increased profitability, with nearly 20 years of experience specializing in the areas of package design, graphic design, package structure, exhibits and management

• Package Innovation

• New Product Conception

• Package Design Fulfillment

• Process Compliance

• International Relations

• Project Management

• Exhibits

• Packaging Structure

• POS Displays

• 3D Rendering

• Production Management

• Technology Director

• Relocation Manager

• Operations

• Departmental Budgeting

43769 Account Manager – This highly effective, results-oriented sales professional with over 18 years of successful national and international key account and sales management experience with custom flexible and folding carton packaging and printing is available

Experience and skills include:

• Executive/client relationship building

• Territory management

• Strategic new business development

• Contract negotiation

• Multi-functional team leadership

• Project management

• ROI and margin orientation

• New product rollout

39790  Packaging Engineer – This engineer is a results-driven leader with extensive experience in packaging design in both manufacturing and R&D environments.  Key skills include package design and test development as they apply to design-for-manufacture, efficiency improvements and cost reduction; specification writing; customer service; supply chain and procurement; application of packaging design principles to support a successful lean enterprise; computer hardware and software technical support.

Candidate led specification development for consumer product primary and secondary packaging, supporting over 50 departments.  He also served as single point of contact for all facets of internal customer and supplier communication, supplier qualification, specification database management as well as technical liaison with purchasing.  Created/changed/obsoleted 1,200-1,400 individual specifications per year.  Designed 200-300 new packages per year.

• Managed migration of mainframe-based packaging specification system to graphical-based system on Lotus Notes; new system went to 24-hour availability over the Internet, saving $50,000 annually in licensing, duplicating and mailing fees as well reducing bid cycle time by 50%

• Designed and implemented an electronic specification request form that reduced specification cycle time by 50% over the existing paper based form

• Designed a highly reusable, cost effective shipping case for a silver recovery program; the cases had a 50+ round trip life cycle and removed 250,000 lbs. of silver a year from the waste stream with an estimated annual cost savings of $12 million