Diann Grasse Email & Phone Number

• Strong purchasing management skills with proven ability to meet deadlines and stay within budget.• Experienced with Basecamp and Hive project management software, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft office. Proficient working on MAC or PC based.• Work on a national level, sourcing to vendors located throughout the United States from coast to coast. . • Critical and analytical ability to identify cost reduction opportunities• Strong negotiating skills• Ability to confront, address and deal with issues to achieve a mutually-beneficial outcomeStrategic Sourcing Specialist Specializing in Commercial Print • Establish best method of print manufacturing and obtain best fit vendors to produce work. • Able to Negotiate best price with print vendors due to the ability to identify manufacturing plants with specific equipment required to produce job most efficiently • Expanded knowledge of different paper grades ranging from SCA, Groundwood and free sheets • Work with many platforms of print manufacturing including digital, offset sheetfed, offset coldest and heatset web production methods. • Experience in various types of industry specific print such as financial, healthcare, industrial, retail, and POP (point of purchase) print.• Solid base of understanding all phases of print production including prepress, printing and binding and mailing phases. • Work on a national level, sourcing print to vendors located throughout the United States from coast to coast. • Experienced sourcing with overseas manufacturing plants and managing cargo/ custom/clearing logistics. • Critical and analytical ability to identify cost reduction opportunities

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