Abhilash Kumar Jha

• Work with brand managers, production, creative, and visual teams to achieve the desired result on the first time.
• Traveling to the printer with the brand manager for shade card approval and technical support for the innovation project.
• Managing the entire artwork lifecycle, from design to print.
  Collaborating with HUL stakeholders and printers to ensure timely delivery of all artworks, maintaining quality and consistency from design to print stages.
• Strong ability to coordinate multiple projects, ensuring on-time delivery.
• In-depth knowledge of color management, spectrophotometer, artwork, and print technicalities.
• Set up and ran pre-production meetings to ensure quality and consistency from artwork to print.
• Approved colour reliable proofs (Epson proofs) with marketing team and managed the delivery of mechanical artwork to printers.
• Maintained adherence to approved processes, but identified opportunities for improvement.
• Currently I am looking completely HFD category (Horlicks, Boost, Viva, Malotva and extension range) along with Tresemme, Vaseline, Pears, Hamam, Rexona, Liril, St. Ives and Ayush.

Working with sgsco as an onsite print production manager at GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Ltd., Gurgaon. Sgsco is a design and pre-media agency specializing in expanding and evolving a brand's identity. It is a production agency that handles a brand's fruition at every stage, ranging from its communication media to its global communication campaigns.

• Responsible for handling the New Project development, Artwork development, Printer development, and on-boarding as per clients' standards.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams (Marketing, Supply Chain, Medical Affair, Regulatory, Procurement, Packaging, internal Sgsco production, print management and QA) to successfully manage and deliver updated artwork/labeling; manage / coordinate the resolution of technical queries to meet project milestones.
• Responsible for process flow - Design Locking, Color locking, Repro, Fingerprinting, Printers Feedback, etc.
• Harmonization of brand assets/images, Pantone colors across brands.
• Working on projects like: Color optimizations, Cost reduction.
  Performing detailed analysis for the root cause of issues and taking corrective actions for the same.
• Created ink drawdown for all house colors with different substrates within Delta E 2 to harmonize the color with different print technology and different substrate.

• To head the operation of Pre-Press. Coordination with engraving and marketing team, client interactions, ensuring timely deliverance of results to meet customer requirement of cylinder proofs and cylinders for printing machine. checking jobs before engraving, Plan new job (new launch design) for reputed customer like Nestle, P&G, Britannia, ITC, Perfetti, Emami, Tata Tea, Corn Agra, GSK & Cadbury Image correction, colour separation, troubleshooting challenges in Pre-press department, executing development plans, efficient database management, Prepress team motivation & trainings with an aim to enhance knowledge & productivity.

Managing Pre-press team, preparing workflow schedules and package layouts, cylinder layouts & efficient color schemes, client interactions, plan new job, image correction, color separation, trapping, checking jobs before engraving, troubleshooting challenges in the pre-press department, executing development plans, database management, pre-press team motivation, and trainings with an aim to enhance knowledge and productivity.

• Making a job ready for the chemical etching to produce Roto gravure printing cylinders which includes creating and modifying complex graphics, illustrations, image editing, complex layout making.

• Production planning for all machines, estimation of job, preventive maintenance for all
• Supervised and administered staff and equipment/machines throughout production process.