Print Production Officer at Mars in Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Job Description: The job purpose is to deploy the print quality improvement strategy decided by the Packaging Technology Manager in order to :

• Support Print Production Manager vision, process & strategy

• Qualification/audit of current & new printers (targets, process, KPI’s)

• Deploy the print quality improvement strategy & optimize the print quality to the state-of-the-art, whatever the print technology

• Deploy process and standards for print quality and color management.

• Control & monitor KPI on pack rendering consistency & quality.

• First Print scoring and image profiling

• Prepress and print technology development projects

• Co-manufacturers evaluation, process, monitoring & KPI's

• technical support for the graphics team

  Context:

• Deploy our global print strategy

  Scope :

• Regional: APAC

• All Mars Petcare brands managed by Royal Canin teams

• All pack technologies

  Interfaces:

• Worldwide Graphics partners: repro & printers and tool makers &

ink suppliers

• Internally: Graphics Production, Supply team, Packaging

commercials, Packaging SQA

Ways to operate it :

1. Engage with regional repro and printers

2. Color Profiling

3. Day to day mission

• To benchmark regional prepress, print technics and color management by technology intelligence
• To manage Graphic Partners improvement and performance, building up a trustful relationship
• To deploy the rules and ways of working of Royal Canin internally and externally,
• To manage projects as technology deployment

Job Specifications/Qualifications

1. Education & Professional Qualification:

• 4 years Minimum of technical experience on Packaging printing

technology (in printer, or repro house)

2. Knowledge/Experience:

• Be familiar with Color, Prepress, and Print technics
• 4 years of professional experience (graphic chain)
• Successful packaging experience with a repro-house or photoengraver and/or printer
• Strong capacity to understand all aspects of a problem and apply appropriate solution.
• Skill to unite interfaces around shared projects.
• Skill to well-communicate with the different interfaces (internal-external) and report sticking points to the relevant people transparently and objectively
• Very customer-focused, able to focus on the end result and stick to the target
• Able to define processes, workflows, performance and quality criteria clearly
• Good understanding of how a company works, organizational skills, determination, teamwork
• Educational skills in transferring technical expertise.
• Individual contributor with solid self-motivation skills

3. Languages

• English