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