David Blance Email & Phone Number

Chester, United Kingdom

Mbna, Chester

In my current role as an Account Manager I have responsibility for managing client relationships and direct mail campaigns for several key accounts.My duties include accepting creative and print production briefs, briefing designers through to delivering and mailing all campaigns.My current roles also involves working on digital campaigns including responsive emails, HTML5 banners, canvas ads for Facebook and photography shoots for Instagram.Responsibilities… Show more In my current role as an Account Manager I have responsibility for managing client relationships and direct mail campaigns for several key accounts.My duties include accepting creative and print production briefs, briefing designers through to delivering and mailing all campaigns.My current roles also involves working on digital campaigns including responsive emails, HTML5 banners, canvas ads for Facebook and photography shoots for Instagram.Responsibilities include:• Providing print production technical expertise to the team and client when required.• Building and maintaining excellent working relationship with clients at all levels.• Improving verbal and written communication links between Williams Lea and the client, driving production meetings on a daily basis, writing and implementing a production status report and regular face to face contact addressing any issues and answering any queries.• Effective negotiator, ability to select the most suitable vendor for each product, collate prices and negotiate with vendors to ensure the client gets value for money. Utilise e-auctions to obtain best market price for the client.• Managing the end to end process of creative and print production from accepting the brief, through to creative sign off, print, fulfilment and mailing each campaign.• Work closely with vendors to resolve any issues and find alternative solutions for the client.• Regular client service review meetings.• Deliver against account SLA's and savings targets. Show less

Williams Lea, Chester

Responsibilities include:• Invited by Williams Lea to help set up a new central government contact, initial secondment for six months extended to twelve months, involving living away from home from Monday to Friday every week.• Sole responsibility for all print production requirements for two government departments: The Food Standards Agency and The Department of Energy and Climate Change. I also helped out with print production for Her Majesty’s Revenue and… Show more Responsibilities include:• Invited by Williams Lea to help set up a new central government contact, initial secondment for six months extended to twelve months, involving living away from home from Monday to Friday every week.• Sole responsibility for all print production requirements for two government departments: The Food Standards Agency and The Department of Energy and Climate Change. I also helped out with print production for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).• Established an excellent working relationship with client at all levels.• Manage the end to end process of all point of sale client requirements.• Responsible for collating all management information, including mid-month forecasts, actual spend v budgets, benchmarking, service levels, successes, failures, opportunities and threats. All information is collated on a monthly basis which I helped present to the client.• Monitor contractual arrangements with senior managers, ensuring “Gainshare” model savings, mark up and profit levels are achieved.• Ability to plan and organise workload on a daily basis, ensuring both the client and vendors are kept fully up to date with deadlines and job status.• Work closely with client to understand their integrated marketing campaigns and make alternative recommendations to help drive new revenue streams.• Helped to test and implement a new digital asset management system for all central government departments. Show less

Chester, United Kingdom

In addition to the above, I also had the following responsibilities:-• Manage all client legal mailings, large volume 100% mailings with crucial client daily reporting requirements. • Educate all new clients on Williams Lea processes, timings and technical side of print production, including, digital print, lithographic, flexographic and screen printing techniques.• Helped compile and present all manager information to the client.

Chester, United Kingdom

Responsibilities include:• Manage the efforts of one print buyer.• Liaise directly with the client on a daily basis, accepting production briefs, briefing jobs into the internal studio for artwork amends, build timing plans and ensure a full production schedule is supplied.• Manage the production and sign off of statement inserts, press and magazine advertisements from creative through to print and delivery. • Represent the loans department for… Show more Responsibilities include:• Manage the efforts of one print buyer.• Liaise directly with the client on a daily basis, accepting production briefs, briefing jobs into the internal studio for artwork amends, build timing plans and ensure a full production schedule is supplied.• Manage the production and sign off of statement inserts, press and magazine advertisements from creative through to print and delivery. • Represent the loans department for “Customer College” presenting and explaining the functions of the loans department in the bank. Show less

Chester, United Kingdom

Resonnsibilities include:• Buy print and laser enclose from vendors ensuring maximum cost efficiencies are made at all times.• Mange the production and sign off of all direct mail from new creative through to print, laser enclose and mailing the job for home, motor, travel and payment protection insurance.• Ensure all printed materials are produced within planned timescales. • Manage all print and mail vendors, ensuring quarterly reviews… Show more Resonnsibilities include:• Buy print and laser enclose from vendors ensuring maximum cost efficiencies are made at all times.• Mange the production and sign off of all direct mail from new creative through to print, laser enclose and mailing the job for home, motor, travel and payment protection insurance.• Ensure all printed materials are produced within planned timescales. • Manage all print and mail vendors, ensuring quarterly reviews of their performance are delivered. Show less

Chester, United Kingdom

Resonnsibilities Include: • Buy print for acquisition and affinity partner direct mail campaigns.• Liaise with client to ensure all requirements of production briefs are implemented.• Brief artwork amends into internal studio and ensure all sign off is received.

Idm Diploma In Direct Marketing

Ba (Hons) Public Administration

A Levels Geography And Sociology

A Level Business Studies

City & Guilds Catering

O Levels: English Language, Mathematics, Accounting, Geography, History, European Studies, Woodwork