Mark Kelly Email & Phone Number

County Galway, Ireland

Ballinasloe, Co. Galway

• Manage the seven team members with responsibility for hiring, training and ongoing development• Monitor and maintain team statistics, logs, work instructions and procedures necessary for day-to-day functions.• Facilitate training, conduct team meetings, and team member one-to-one sessions.• Responsible for sourcing, costing, internal management review and project lead on the installation of all design software, hardware, servers and specialised prepress software and hardware.•… Show more • Manage the seven team members with responsibility for hiring, training and ongoing development• Monitor and maintain team statistics, logs, work instructions and procedures necessary for day-to-day functions.• Facilitate training, conduct team meetings, and team member one-to-one sessions.• Responsible for sourcing, costing, internal management review and project lead on the installation of all design software, hardware, servers and specialised prepress software and hardware.• Provide updates to the management team with regards to potential customer problems and make recommendations resolving issues.• NPI manager for onboarding new clients as well as the management of challenging projects.• Critically evaluate, cost, price and write all of the large life science and government tenders. • Bureau manager for the scanning of student’s examination scripts. A specialist three-year project in a secure site working with a UK partner, and government body to ensure effective script security and scanning continuity. Management of 20 temporary staff during scanning production.Key Contributions:• Developed highly skilled graphic design team and adapted the departmental hiring approach to the changing customer base and skills requirements of the business.• Completed re-write process of department procedures that reduced pre-press non-conformances costs by 70%.• Successfully met clients’ specifications and launch schedules via detailed planning and continuous communications with clients and internal stakeholders on several challenging projects.• Developed costing models, staffing & loading models, detailed site & workflow plans and client presentation for specialist scanning project resulting in three years of a flawless scanning record. • Credited with re-constructing imprint MIS system to enable accurate planning, live data tracking, costings, quotations and purchasing across the plant. Show less

Cherry Orchard Industrial Estate, Dublin

• Prepared quotations on all large carton, leaflet and label tenders for the pharmaceutical and software markets. Values ranging from € 10,000 to € 10 million. • Generated responses to Expressions of Interest (e.g. RFIs) and tenders while successfully maintaining high attention to detail all within tight deadlines.• Product development of new cartons, leaflets and booklets. Worked with customers on initial concepts designs, sample production, on site line trials with operators and… Show more • Prepared quotations on all large carton, leaflet and label tenders for the pharmaceutical and software markets. Values ranging from € 10,000 to € 10 million. • Generated responses to Expressions of Interest (e.g. RFIs) and tenders while successfully maintaining high attention to detail all within tight deadlines.• Product development of new cartons, leaflets and booklets. Worked with customers on initial concepts designs, sample production, on site line trials with operators and packaging technologists and redesigns right through to full production runs.• Project manager and team player on a variety of projects every year – implementation of new MIS, product introduction launches, lead-time reduction and cost avoidance initiates.• Responsible for senior account management of several top tier overseas accounts. + 5m in sales Show less

Imda Driving Operational Excellence Through Lean Leadership

IMDA Driving Operational Excellence through Lean Leadership –

Diploma, Applied Project Management

Studied Applied Project Management

Bsc, Print & Media Management (Hons)

Activities and Societies: Kayak Club

Leaving Cert, Leaving Certificate

Activities and Societies: Canoeing team