Production Facilitator at Black Pen Recruitment

Our client, one of Africa’s first premium wellness retail brand, is currently looking for an experienced Production Facilitator. Their concept is it to create the next generation of wellness rituals, engineered by nature to restore balance.

With dispensaries in Cape Town and Gauteng the brand continues to grow with a strong focus on the retail experience in store as well as online.

In this role you’ll help ensure the manufacturing processes run reliably and efficiently. The role is specifically focussed on print-media for the different departments within their retail business (branding, communication, merchandising and product) and will cover two brands.

Do you aspire to make a difference and make a major contribution to clients, whilst also doing meaningful work, that gives you freedom and purpose? Then this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Salary: Market related

Requirements:

• Proven experience in production facilitation 
• Deep knowledge of production management in the print environment 
• Knowledge of various printing standards  
• Strong communication skills
• Experience in performance evaluation of production 
• Experience in Approval maxand TradeGecko
• Excellent organizational skills 
• Strong decision-making skills and a results-driven approach 
• Ideally, strong existing relationships with suppliers 

Key responsibilities:

• lanning, organising and executing production schedules
• Estimating, negotiating and agreeing budgets and timelines with suppliers and across the team
• Liaise with design, marketing and merchandise managers to formulate objectives and understand requirements 
• Negotiate with and manage suppliers from brief stage through to delivery  
• Estimate costs and prepare accurate quotations, negotiating beneficial rates for a high-quality output consistently 
• Organize workflow to meet specifications and deadlines 
• Monitor production to resolve issues and ensure on time delivery
• Apply strong decision-making skills with a results-driven approach, while keeping all stakeholders in the know 
• Ensure output meets high quality standards 
• Create and implement systems and processes to ensure effective communication and workflow where necessary, establishing a highly functioning work unit 
• Report to management