Liam Curry Email & Phone Number

Croydon, England, United Kingdom

Key responsibilities & accountabilities:Collating quotations from nominated suppliers and ensuring best buying practices in partnership with the Procurement Director on several key high-value accounts including WHSmith, both high street and travel, (business-critical, time-sensitive Till Rolls and Labels) and Brakes wholesale food suppliers (multiple 3-part invoice papers and NCR Pads).Ensuring all orders are processed in a timely fashion and deadlines are met. Reviewing high-value purchase orders before they are issued.Experience on large multi-drop / product lines as the day-to-day contact running the rolling national POS campaigns for Pizza Hut across 400+ sites. Between 8-10 campaigns a year completed to the contracted SLA.Monitoring Purchase order/Sales order progress to ensure delivery and stocking for call-off is within SLA (where applicable).Facilitating each year between 14-17 mailings on behalf of Rathbones investment management. Print runs from 500 to 72,000- all variable data, multi-insertion mailings- completed to agreed turnaround times.Taking on customer requests for non-received goods and following escalation processes with the warehouse and suppliers to ensure a swift resolution.Following month-end procedures to ensure all non-stocked lines are invoiced, all charges are raised, and backorders are monitored for all my assigned accounts.Ensuring Stock lines are replenished in a timely fashion following CIT procedures.Checking Artwork proofs for accuracy before submission to the client.Managing all one-off bespoke customer requirements and meeting all Service Level Agreements.Challenging margins with the Sales Team as necessary or escalating if needed.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

ERS is the UK’s largest independent supplier of ballot and election services working for numerous companies, not-for-profit organisations and government bodies.Assisting the Pre-Production Manager, my main responsibilities includes:In the absence of the Pre-Production Manager: managing the department’s workload; allocating jobs as and when copy and data is submitted; ensuring every job is allocated the correct resources and is progressing to each stage as expected; and, establishing the department’s daily order of priorities.Successfully negotiating competitive print costs from incumbent external suppliers; introducing a new external supplier which substantially reduced overall costs while maintaining the highest quality.Signing-off and reconciling all external print invoices; successfully forecasting and managing budgets. Attending weekly meetings with the Director of Production to plan current jobs and to discuss any matters affecting the flow of work between Pre-Production and Production.Advising project managers in the Client Advisory department and Membership Engagement Services on the best print method for their jobs.Providing guidance to print administrators and data analysts so that artwork and/or data files are securely and correctly supplied to external suppliers. Clearly communicating every aspect of a project to a variety of clients from initiation to sign-off.

London, United Kingdom

PML is a boutique sports publishers specializing in the design and print of match day programmes and commemorative titles.Daily monitoring of all aspects of the production process; scheduling; editorial; design; third-party advertising; successfully ensuring all titles are printed and delivered according to agreed deadlines.Sole responsibility for setting accurate print orders for all titles to minimize wastage; ensuring they are circulated to all relevant internal and external parties in a timely manner.Sole responsibility for obtaining quotes from preferred print suppliers- yearly print spend between 1.5-1.8 million- for rolling one year print contracts as well as individual one-off titles; actively negotiating and awarding contracts to print suppliers that offer best overall costing and timing; signing-off all print invoices; keeping accurate and updated records on all print spend for regular review. Successfully project managing production, print, delivery and vending on a number of high profile sporting events; Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games; 2013 Rugby League World Cup; 2009 ICC World Twenty20.

Master'S Degree, Journalism Studies, Pass With Distinction

Bachelor'S Degree, Film/Cinema/Video Studies, 3Rd

A Level, Film Studies, C

A Level, Sociology, D