Experience

Ruddocks - An integrated design & print agency

• United Kingdom
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sales Director

  • Jul 2018 - Present

  Leading a fantastic team to success at Ruddocks, creating customer partnerships and helping them achieve their required marketing outcome through multiple print methods, creative design and integrated digital communications.Strategic planning for future growth utilising a wide platform of marketing opportunitiesResponsible for internal management information software that runs throughout the business at all levels including CRM, Estimating, Production, Scheduling, Costing, Invoicing and reporting. Part of the senior management team where duties include the day to day running of the business, managing people, suppliers and ensuring that key business objectives are met.Passionate about making a difference today in order to create something special for a future generation.



Ruddocks - An integrated design & print agency

• United Kingdom
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Account Manager

  • Jan 2010 - Present

  Working with customers to ensure that they do not just receive ink on paper but finish with a high quality product that will add value to their business.Working with local councils to ensure that they receive electoral materials, poll cards, ballot papers, postal packs, CNLs. This include project planning, managing client data and ensuring clients are receiving value for money and most importantly that they review what they want when they want it.Advising clients how they can use online driven templates to save time and money on a selection of their current print material.I have personally grown and look after approx £150,000 in value of printed material for clients in and around Lincolnshire through a range of Digital and Litho printed material.Whilst account managing my clients I also lead a team of 3 people to ensure the day to day running of a busy digital print department meets the expectations of our clients. This includes the printing of approx 3 million colour pages and 5 million mono pages.Part of the senior management team where duties include the day to day running of the business, managing purchases, developing relationships with current and new suppliers equipment. Hands on approach to production within this role.

• Data Analyst - Personalisation Consultant

  • Jan 2010 - Jun 2014

  From customer supplied data ensure that this data can be made ready to integrate into printed material.Using excel, CSV, tab delimited data.Trained user of Direct Smile and Chilli Publish personalisation software.Processing data using Satori Bulk Mailer to ensure that customer data is de duplicated and made ready for postage. Full knowledge of the UK Mailsort postage industry, applying this knowledge to customer data to ensure that they receive discounts of up to 60% of postage costs for eligible mailings.Working with Royal Mail, OnePost, TNT to ensure that our customers mail reaches the correct destination as efficiently as possible.Creating PHP data to integrate product data into webspace.

• Digital Printer

  • Jan 2005 - Jan 2011

  Using the digital print devices output customer print jobs on equipment such as Canon, Konica Minolta, Ricoh, Hitachi, Sharp and Xerox.Fully trained operator for the Xerox c1000 production press with with Fiery rip knowledge. Working various shifts in order to ensure that the customer always receives their printed material as required.User of Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, Microsoft Office, Direct Smile, Bulk Mailer, Wordpress, Chilli Publish, Notepad++, Command Workstation.

• Film Planner / Platemaker

  • Jan 2001 - Jan 2005

  Producing printing plates from printed film in order to feed the printing presses



Lincoln United Football Club

• Communications Director

  • Sep 2014 - Sep 2014

  Assistance to the football club in communicating the correct messages to supporters via the club website and match day programme aswell as highlighting areas where new supporters can be targeted and interacted with to encourage more people to visit the club on match day and in term become part of the Lincoln United non league football family.Purely voluntary basis and done for a passion of helping others, non league football and being stood in the middle of a field in the pouring rain! Assistance to the football club in communicating the correct messages to supporters via the club website and match day programme aswell as highlighting areas where new supporters can be targeted and interacted with to encourage more people to visit the club on match day and in term become part of the Lincoln United non league football family.Purely voluntary basis and done for a passion of helping others, non league football and being stood in the middle of a field in the pouring rain!