Rizwan Awan Email & Phone Number

Kent, Wa

• Develop strategic business partnerships with domestic and overseas factories, identify network capacity needs based on cost, capacity, and service levels to ensure item specification and on time delivery.• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones.• Responsible for planning and budgets.• Manage vendor relationships, including negotiating and controlling contracts.• Improved workflow and employee training, increasing productivity/quality.• Work with overseas printers for all aspects of simple to complex printing projects.• Developed short and long-term plans for production growth and efficiency. • Manage new product development by driving item and project timelines, specifications, costs, negations, packaging, shipping, and manufacturer selection.• Cultivate innovation through new product design, unique material selection, and advanced manufacturing process.• Point of contact between internal and external teams including manufacturing, replenishment, shipping, distribution, quality, packaging, sales, and marketing as well as the customer.• Lead development of product lines, analyzing and identifying logistical/financial opportunities that will improve and or reduce costs within the supply chain.• Build, execute and manage cost negotiation strategy and source selections with global external manufacturers on product bids, focusing on optimizing our existing and new source selection considering cost, quality, reliability, capacity, and compliance.• Maintain a knowledge base of product cost driving factors such as material market cost, currency exchange rates, duty rates, freight costs, packaging, and general labor rates.• Knowledge of web design sourced offshore companies to develop the corporate website.

Greater Seattle Area

• Coordinated print production schedules.• Researched and located overseas suppliers based on unique project requirements.• Reviewed and revised quotes and print specifications for awarded jobs.• A chief purchaser of paper, inventory items, equipment, and consumables.• Worked with selected vendors to bid, negotiated pricing and scheduling required to meet deadlines.• Oversee quality control from start to finish.• Managed variety of projects from simple hardbound books to complex custom design books, activity kits, board games, specialty packaging and printing.• Responsible for Press check on-site for large printing project.

Greater Seattle Area

• Managed Graphic Designer Department for the corporation. • Hired and managed in-house Graphic Designers for ongoing projects also contracted freelance Graphic Designers on project to project basis. • Plan, execute and manage the entire print production process of the organization. • Responsible for coordinating print production schedules, cost analysis reports and printing specifications for internal budget approval.• Handle the tasks of initiating requests for bids, purchase orders for vendors and customer quotations, and purchase orders for vendors.• Responsible for monitoring and organizing creative requests submitted to the Graphic Design Team.• Worked with designers to think creatively to produce new ideas and concepts. • Managed multiple projects and deadlines with high attention to detail. • Actively staying abreast of current design trends. • Juggling multiple projects while effectively managing timelines and expectations.