Project Manager/Pricing Specialist (Estimator)

Allegra Marketing Print Mail in Plymouth, Michigan, is a full-service commercial printer serving local, regional, and national clients. We are looking for a Pricing Specialist (Estimator) to join our growing team and embrace our core values: a passion for success, teamwork, respect, and integrity! If you thrive in a fast-paced production environment, have keen attention to detail, create estimates, communicate prices effectively, convert estimates into orders, create purchase orders, and schedule in coordination with the production team for commercial print, this position may be right for you.

Allegra Marketing Print Mail offers great benefits:

• Competitive Salary Based on Experience
• Profit Sharing
• Medical and Dental Insurance with Flexible Spending Account
• 401k with Company Match Vested 100% after 90 Days
• Paid Time Off
• Life Insurance
• Short-term Disability Insurance
• Overtime Opportunity
• Career Advancement Opportunities with Paid Training

Job Duties:

Estimating

• Process request for estimates utilizing the company MIS estimating system, PACE.
• Create accurate, detailed estimate letters that are easy for clients to understand and leaves little opportunity for misinterpretation.
• Email estimates to internal team members and/or client directly.
• Review all estimates before sending to recipients to ensure accuracy.
• Order Processing
• Create and/or convert estimates into orders.
• Ensure all job instructions are clearly stated on job ticket.
• Schedule order based on company standards, customer requirements and production availability.
• Review all orders before sending to recipients to ensure accuracy.

Scheduling

• Schedule all incoming work according to established guidelines to meet customer expectations.
• Update schedule in a timely fashion when necessary.
• Negotiate schedule with appropriate parties when special schedules are required.
• Check WIP (work in progress) and Ship List Reports daily.

Purchasing

• Communicate with vendors to gather costs.
• Create detailed and accurate purchase orders.
• Track, receive, and follow-up on all purchase orders to meet schedules.
• Document all correspondence with vendors.
• Monitor quality and on-time deliveries of vendors used.
• File and follow up on all claims made to a vendor.
• Communication
• Communicate customer expectations.
• Communicate issues and challenges to internal departments and/or clients.

ISO Requirements

• Understand all training plans, control plans, work instruction, mission/quality statement and quality improvement processes.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• 3-5 years’ experience/knowledge in Commercial Printing
• Great organizational and time management skills
• 1-3 years’ experience in customer service.
• Detail oriented
• TEAM player
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral.

Preferred Skills but Not Required:

• 2-4 years’ experience/knowledge in Commercial Print Estimating
• Knowledge of ISO requirements
• Knowledge of EFI EPace MIS system
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel

About Us:

Located in Plymouth, MI, Allegra Marketing Print Mail is the corporate-owned commercial printing production facility of Alliance Franchise Brands LLC, which is ranked #13 among the top 400 printers nationwide with revenues in excess of $400 million annually.