Dave Mann Email & Phone Number

Hobart, Tas, Au

Tasmania

With extensive experience as a creative leader, I specialise in advising Creative, Brand and Marketing businesses, enabling them to cultivate profitable partnerships with key stakeholders, vendors, and clients. I excel in uncovering and presenting captivating brand narratives and am skilled in nurturing blue chip brands while effectively managing project scope, budgets, and workplans. I have a motivational leadership approach and have led high-performance teams comprising 40+ individuals. Engaged through contracts, I deliver impactful marketing communications and brand strategies that align with top-tier client goals, leveraging my diverse client interactions and robust skills in communication and influence.

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

As an experienced creative leader, I consult to Brand and Marketing businesses helping them forge lucrative relationships with key stakeholders, vendors, and clients. I’m adept at discovering and showcasing compelling brand stories and proficient at developing blue chip brands and managing project scope, budgets and workplans. Using my motivational management style, and with a proven history of mentoring high-performance teams of up to 40+ individuals, I’m contracted to deliver effective marketing communication and brand strategies to support high level client objectives. I do this through leveraging my many client experiences and strong communication, influencing and written skills.

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Ten month contract planning and producing all marketing promotional photography and video content for ‘Office of Student Services and Operations’ recruitment campaigns. Utilising Tasmania’s premiere full service visual production studio, I leverage the significant beauty of Tasmania to communicate the distinctiveness of our courses to local, inter-state and international markets. From initial brief creation, I coordinate and drive production, confirming all outputs, writing the shoot plan, arranging talent, bringing together industry experts, scouting and securing locations, managing shoot logistics and art directing the shoot. Over nine months in the role I have developed many significant contacts across Hobart and Tasmania including photographers, videographers, producers and visual production teams. I have formed ongoing relationships with community leaders including local government officials, Indigenous Elders, university councillors and corporate partners. I have made significant contributions to efficiencies and communication between internal and external stakeholders by standardising briefing procedures and systematising image library and search facilities. Key projects completed:● Greenhill Bisdee Tier Observatory. 12-hour shoot incorporating digital and radio telescopes, internal, external drone, b-roll and time-lapse midnight capture. ● Travelling with University students and staff to locations across Tasmania, including the Vice-Chancellor at the Hedberg Building, Dr. Scott Bennett at sunrise in Tinderbox and Dr. Rodrigo Hamede conducting critical Tasmanian Devil studies on location in the Freycinet Region on the east coast. ● Other significant shoots for UTas include the Rozelle campus in Sydney to promote the new updates to the campus, nursing and paramedic student courses; new Aged Care/Dementia images on location at Hobart aged care homes; and Family History Diploma at the Hobart State Library.

Sydney, Australia

IVE is Australia's most innovative and diverse customer communications business, encompassing the full spectrum of brand development, MarComs, creative studios, print production, promotional products, mail house management, distribution and logistics solutions nationally through divisions including Integrated Marketing, Creative Services and Data Driven Communications.My role was leading the brand and marketing account service delivery team and a creative group to provide brand and marketing campaign solutions for major Australian financial services groups AMP, AMP Capital and Resolution Life. I was key client services contact managing a large team across all aspects of managed logistics, campaign management, brand development in addition to extensive IVE internal creative and production support services.Key responsibilities:Contract management - marketing and brand services lead - creative services lead - strategic partnership management - budgets and forecasting - growth target accountability - client campaign execution - project management - transformational change - team management and staff mentoringHeadline tasks:• Brand and Marketing strategic communications consultancy lead• Strategic partnership and key stakeholder management• Key client liaison for all B2B activity• End-to-end campaign management - conceptual creative through to distribution• Project design and implementation of managed solution service models• Brand guardianship and asset management• Category audits and consulting services• Expenditure mapping and optimisation• Process analysis and workflow automation• Inventory and logistics management• Local, regional and international strategic sourcing

Toys"R"Us Support Centre, Regents Park Nsw 2143

Toys”R”Us and Babies”R”Us stores were the largest and most exciting toy and baby business in the country. They provided children and their parents with an amazing world of toys and an extensive range of baby products to choose from.Running the marketing studio, the key purpose of my role was to lead the overall creative branding, production and scheduling for all promotion advertising content including promotional catalogues, flyers, new store marketing promotions, baby books and EDM production.Reporting directly to the General Manager of Merchandising and Marketing, I worked with the Senior Marketing Manager and to develop a year-round strategy for the Toys"R"Us – Babies"R"Us brand to promote in key market segments such as Christmas, Easter and Halloween. Among my duties was the daily generation and distribution of the yearly National Production and Print Schedule to 120 employees. I oversaw all external supplier contracts for the print distribution and online operations, including offset web printers in Sydney and Melbourne, as well as Salmat door drop mapping. In terms of leadership, I led an in-house design studio team of six designers who were in control of catalogues, EDMs, and shop branding with compliance to ACCC standards.Key Achievements:• Secured all yearly external print contracts with large offset print companies, including the IVE Group (BlueStar/Franklin Web) and PMP, totalling more than $7M in annual revenue.• Negotiated a $700k 10% decrease in yearly catalogue printing expenses, which resulted in a major investment in new store promotional activities.• Achieved 10% cost reduction by switching stock to common paper and redesigning the catalogue structure to align with Big W and Woolworths to reduce stock risk. ◦ Utilized additional money to enhance catalogue quantity and distribution regions, resulting in a 3% net growth for the first quarter of 2018.• Improved brand appearance across consumer-facing areas focusing on message consistency.

Sydney, Australia

A $1bn company and growing strongly in challenging times, Fuji Xerox Australia influences many markets and customers. Creative Services for Global Services has become a fast growing area for electronic document consultancy to aid development of key communications for our customers. Overseeing seven Sydney and Melbourne design studios and two large stand-alone design hubs, creative services strategy and business development was a daily occurrence under my leadership. With 42 people, eight of whom were direct reports, I oversaw new business and brand development, contract execution and subject matter expertise. I assigned $3.8 million in yearly funding to hire and educate a team of essential employees to guarantee professional growth and oversee operational reporting. For two significant business implementations, I led a 12-person team that included Lead Sales, Business Analysts, Creative and Marketing teams. Tender price, new business interaction strategy, and operational preparedness for 'go live' were all developed and overseen by me in the lead-up to the launch of the new business model.Key Achievements:• Reduced document costs by up to 30% annually and implemented an efficient document management structure internally.• Interacted frequently with senior customer management to develop brand direction as head of creative services operations for the teams established on-site with clients.• Boosted brand awareness for educational institutes through event sponsorships.• Introduced the ‘Creative Services Business Alignment Program’ to secure the long-term viability of the company's creative services.• Expanded the client base from nine to 14 clients.

Sydney, Australia

Reporting to the CIO, I was responsible for all creative services strategic solutions and studio activities involving creative hub studios in Sydney, Melbourne and all studios placed within customer premises in Sydney, Melbourne and the ACT with a turnover in excess of $4.25 million.Stream Solutions - Colour Management Compliance ManagerI developed and implemented Stream’s Colour Management Compliance Program. This role was managing the monitoring and auditing Stream’s offset lithographic print supplier base (230 printers in total) measuring colour performance conformity to: ISO 12647-2 (Press) and ISO 12647-7 (Graphic technologies). This program was critical to Stream’s supplier accreditation process and is designed to give Stream the ability to supply predictable, measurable colour across its lithographic and digital supplier base to its customers. "The Australian printers are making huge strides towards ISO 12647 accreditation and in doing so join a vast global network of quality controlled print”.

Sydney, Australia

I became the 16th elected member of the AU/TC130 Committee (Technical Advisory Group for printing to the ISO standards) in March 2008. My role was to represent the Consumer, their values and communications to the advisory group. The TC130 committee was established in May 2007 to formulate strategies and refine technical information investigating the optimum way of achieving compliance and certification to ISO for printing in Australia.http://www.colourstandards.com.auI regularly spoke on ‘the consumer perspective’ at Stream conferences, Printing Industries Association of Australia and Lithographic Institute of Australia seminars about the global developments in printing and colour technology through the ISO suite of printing standards in Australia.

Sydney, Australia

In my role as Creative Studio Manager and Print Procurement Manager at Adcorp Australia, I supervised a studio of 13 designers including high end creative advertising for major national newspapers to property and retail sectors and recruitment advertising. I also managed the Print Procurement arm with over $3m in print throughput. I managed the migration from Mac to PC through the design studio to improve IT support and functionality. I successfully implemented systems and tools to measure production department output, including the mainframe timesheet system.

Sydney, Australia

In my role as Creative Director across all live magazine titles, I designed all covers and art directed all titles for Sydney Eats, Wellbeing, Luxury Home Design, Dirt Action, Kitchens and Bathrooms, Complete Weddings Sydney and Outdoor Design & Living etc. I managed the in-house team of four editorial designers and six external freelance designers with nine advertising department design staff and three prepress operators.Special achievement: In November 2004, Universal Magazines won The Bell Award - Best Consumer Magazine Cover and Campaign for Sydney Eats, Sydney.

Sydney, Australia

Art Director for monthly magazines and quarterly supplements including Soap World, DVD Now, Super Hits Specials and many PC titles. I developed promotions to increase circulation and readerships, supervised prepress production and print quality standards and interviewed and photographed TV Soap stars.

London, United Kingdom

My role of Senior Art Director was part of a six strong creative team art directing press advertising, direct mail, catalogues, media inserts and one-shots across daily and weekly press advertising for Music Direct CD Clubs in UK publications including The Sun, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Star, Sunday Magazine, Yes Magazine, Guardian Weekend, Evening Standard and TV & Radio Times.

London, United Kingdom

Part of a 20+ strong design and prepress team, I designed and art directed Direct Mail magazines including QPD (Quality Paperbacks Direct), Discovery and History Clubs book clubs. Magazine design, photography direction and prepress management were my focus.