Your Career At Nimlok
We believe a successful business depends upon having motivated and happy employees with clear direction and goals. We employ some of the best people in the industry and provide a stimulating work environment that provides fun, recognition and personal development.
We have a great track record of promotion and progression and the work we have done with our Apprenticeship Programme has led to us being nominated for several local and national awards.
As an equal opportunities employer we recognise and adopt employment policies based on principles of equality and diversity. This helps us to attract and retain staff from the widest possible pool of skills and experience.
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Are you an experienced project manager with CAD skills and a proven track record of delivery?
At Nimlok we create engaging exhibition stands helping our clients achieve enhanced results from exhibiting at trade exhibitions across Europe and increasingly further afield. This is an exciting, creative and dynamic business with a 70+ strong team and purpose-built facility with fantastic equipment and resources.
Nimlok’s unique formula uses a clever blend of modular hired architecture with bespoke features and graphics to deliver custom stands more efficiently. With a focus on visitor engagement, we also lead the way in pioneering exciting new ways for our clients to tell their story with investment in technology and digital content creation skills, setting us apart from our traditional rivals.
Key Responsibilities:
Based at our purpose-built premises in Northamptonshire, you will form part of an experienced project management team, coordinating a wide range of processes on each assigned project.
Projects are predominantly delivered in the UK, with some delivered in the EU and further afield. You will be responsible for the physical delivery and financial performance of each project. Normal activities include:
• Developing the sold CAD design through to the final deliverable design
• Coordinating technical details with clients (all post sale)
• Creating bills of materials and fabrication instructions
• Arranging subcontract activities & technical show services
• Client liaison
• Oversight of onsite build
*Internal activities include the manufacture of joinery and engineered components, graphics printing and finishing, logistics, on-site installation and dismantling and integration of our in-house developed engagement offerings.
The Ideal Project Manager:
Our Project Managers play a pivotal role in coordinating our resources and delivering both an exceptional result and great experience for our customers working with our in-house design, fabrication, graphics, AV, installation and content teams. With enviable resources at your fingertips, this is an environment in which an experienced project manager can excel and join a business with serious plans for growth and innovation.
With over 150 active clients and more than 300 projects a year, the ability to work flexibly to seasonal demands is a must; in peak periods additional hours will be required. You will also need to be able to travel to venues, so holding a full UK driving licence and passport are essential. Exhibition or event industry experience is desirable along with experience operating CAD software. Candidates from construction, retail fitout or other similar industries are also invited to apply.
In return we can offer a competitive salary + benefits including: Paid Overtime, Pension with employer contribution, Health Care scheme and Death in Service. Core working hours are Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00.
If you are looking for your next challenge as a Project Manager then we want to hear from you, please click APPLY!
At Nimlok we create engaging exhibition stands helping our clients achieve enhanced results from exhibiting at trade exhibitions across Europe and increasingly further afield. This is an exciting, creative and dynamic business with a 70+ strong team and purpose-built facility with fantastic equipment and resources. Nimlok’s unique formula uses a clever blend of modular hired architecture with bespoke features and graphics to deliver custom stands more efficiently. With a focus on visitor engagement, we also lead the way in pioneering exciting new ways for our clients to tell their story with investment in technology and digital content creation skills, setting us apart from our traditional rivals.
Overview of Role:
As one of our exhibition stand designers you’ll be responsible for utilising Nimlok’s best practice in designing visually impactful exhibition stands for our wide range of clients. You’ll need a strong eye for design detail combined with a comprehensive technical knowledge to execute your concepts into reality. You will be integral to our current design team working closely with our wider creative teams enabling your designs to really stand out. Working closely with our sales channels you interpretation of the brief will allow our clients to deliver their exhibiting objectives whilst managing the available project budgets. You will need to have a proven track record within the exhibiting industry with excellent communication skills, proficiency in design software with a high level of technical accuracy.
Key Responsibilities:
- The role of our Exhibition stand designer will involve:
- To design a create visually appealing exhibition stand for clients
- Understanding where the integration of our engagement tools will enhance
and help deliver our clients messaging - Identifying our clients brand, target audience, messaging and goals for their exhibiting programme before bringing them to life
- Attendance in pre-briefing meetings to aid the successfully capture of the fullscope and understanding of the project
- Presenting design concepts, mood boards and 3D renderings to internal
stakeholders and clients for feedback and approval. - Ensuring your designs are centred around our modular system, to high
technical standards, which meet health and safety requirements and can be
delivered timely onsite. - Handing over your design to our Project Management team for delivery,
communicating with them on the rationale, integration and material finishes around your concept - Staying current with industry trends, technologies and materials finishes
- 3 years’ experience (minimum) as a mid-weight 3D exhibition stand designer working within the exhibition, events, or experiential sectors
- A strong portfolio demonstrating your design skills and experience in delivering successful projects (and be able to tell us why they were successful!)
- Ability to move and act quickly in a fast-paced environment
- Good project management skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
- Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
- An exceptional eye for technical detail, accuracy and quality
- Commercial awareness whilst designing against available budgets
- Strong, hands-on experience with CAD software (Ideally VectorWorks)
- Strong visual rendering skills (Ideally using Artlantis or TwinMotion)
- Design software knowledge for the creation of presentation materials using the Adobe Creative suite of software (Ideally InDesign or Photoshop)
- The ability to sketch ideas would be a nice to have (but not essential)
The Ideal Exhibition Stand Designer:
- Well presented, professional and business like
- Good communicator – both face to face and telephone/virtually
- Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills
- Self-confident and comfortable in dealing at all levels
- Self-driven and results orientated
- Good listener/interpreter
- Ability to stay calm and work accurately in pressured situations
- Persistent and able to stay focused on achieving results
- Exemplary timekeeping and attendance
- Self-motivated
- Flexibility in order to meet the demands of the role (sometimes at short notice or during unsociable hours)
In return we can offer a competitive salary + benefits including: Auto enrolment compliant Pension after 3 months , Following benefits apply after 12 months qualifying service period), 4 x salary Death in Service insurance cover, Healthshield Cash Benefit for Dental, Optical and Complementary therapies . Core working hours are Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00.
Holiday entitlement: 23 days per annum (With an additional day being allocated every 6 months for full attendance) plus statutory public holidays.
Location:
The role is located at the prestigious offices of Nimlok Ltd, based in Wellingborough Northamptonshire. Candidates ideally should live within a reasonable commuting distance and, as there may be some requirement to travel to external events, exhibitions and suppliers in the course of the job a full driving licence (with no restrictions that could impact our insurance) and valid passport are a must. Please note that there is no public transport serving the estate and therefore the ability to travel to our offices independently is essential.
If you are looking for your next challenge as a Project Manager then we want to hear from you, please click APPLY!
At Nimlok we create engaging exhibition stands helping our clients achieve enhanced results from exhibiting at trade exhibitions across Europe and increasingly further afield. This is an exciting, creative and dynamic business with a 70+ strong team and purpose-built facility with fantastic equipment and resources.
Nimlok’s unique formula uses a clever blend of modular hired architecture with bespoke features and graphics to deliver custom stands more efficiently. With a focus on visitor engagement, we also lead the way in pioneering exciting new ways for our clients to tell their story with investment in technology and digital content creation skills, setting us apart from our traditional rivals.
Role Overview:
As our Marketing Manager you will be guardian of our Company’s strong established brand. Upholding our standing as one of the UK’s most respected exhibition stand providers, you will ensure our prospects understand how our offering is differentiated with our engagement tools, bespoke hire formula and supporting services.
With fellow marketers as your audience, you will be responsible for building our position as a thought leader around the science of exhibiting and improving exhibitor ROI. You will promote our subtly unique approach, capability, methodology and services and this is where strong creativity and excellent copy writing skills become vital as does the ability to provide a ‘walk in their shoes’ experience.
This is a role reporting directly to our Managing Director. You will work closely with him, our Head of New Business and our internal creative resources.
This role will also cover our www.conferenceexpo.com brand with a totally different proposition for organisers, rather than exhibitors.
You will manage a junior marketing resource and set up a prospect research function with additional staff that you will recruit to feed AI generated data into our Sugar CRM and Sugar Market tools from where you’ll execute campaigns to generate new leads. So the ability to recruit and manage people along with controlling and optimise results from a substantial marketing budget will be key.
You will have the benefit of working alongside our current marketing manager who is being promoted to run our online portables business, but who will also be on hand as a digital/web marketing technical resource moving forward.
Your experienced approach will drive the sales leads required to meet our ambitious targets for growth in revenue.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, plan and implement a creative marketing strategy in line with the company objectives and thought leadership ambitions.
- Plan and implement strategies for generating new sales leads and enhancing customer retention and up-sell including the prospecting data programme mentioned above
- Measure results and quality of lead generation activity
- Hold responsibility for brand management, corporate identity and PR
- Educate our sales and broader team from a marketer’s perspective
- Create and develop stand out marketing campaigns, communications and sales tools across all platforms – great copywriting is a key skill here!
- Constantly evolve our inspiring showroom
- Beautifully craft emails, blogs, web content, white papers and brochures
- Plan, co-ordinate and implement our campaign and presence for several high profile events including Confex and B2B Marketing
- Reporting of relevant marketing information to MD and provide updates at management and sales meetings
- Plan, manage and control the annual marketing budget
- Manage external agencies, media partners and suppliers
- Manage, train and motivate the marketing team
- Maintain effective internal communications to ensure others are kept informed of our message to our customers
- Contribute to the overall company strategy as part of a forward looking ambitious team
- All of the above for both Nimlok and our ConferenceExpo brand (see conferenceexpo.com)
The role is based at Nimlok’s prestigious facility based in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Candidates should live within a reasonable commuting distance (max 40 miles).
There will be some requirement to travel to external events, exhibitions and suppliers in the course of the job so a full driving licence (with no restrictions that could impact our insurance) and valid passport are a must.
In return we can offer a competitive salary (£40k DOE) + benefits including: Pension with employer contribution, Health Care scheme and Death in Service. Core working hours are Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00.
If you are looking for your next challenge as a Marketing Manager then we want to hear from you, please click APPLY!
At Nimlok we create engaging exhibition stands helping our clients achieve enhanced results from exhibiting at trade exhibitions across Europe and increasingly further afield. This is an exciting, creative and dynamic business with a 70+ strong team and purpose-built facility with fantastic equipment and resources.
Nimlok’s unique formula uses a clever blend of modular hired architecture with bespoke features and graphics to deliver custom stands more efficiently. With a focus on visitor engagement, we also lead the way in pioneering exciting new ways for our clients to tell their story with investment in technology and digital content creation skills, setting us apart from our traditional rivals.
Role Overview:
Key to the role will be to support our online presence and drive digital marketing efforts across Nimlok, Conference Expo, and Nimlok Portables brands. You’ll report directly to the Marketing Manager (Nimlok & CE) who will be responsible for the overall marketing plans. You’ll also have a dotted line report to to our Head of Ecommerces & Digital Marketing Manager.
Key Responsibilities:
- Take responsibility for developing and implementing the digital marketing plans, including SEO/SEM to attract new customers, retain existing ones and promote growth.
- Improve our online presence and elevate our keyword positions, on and off page SEO activities.
- Craft and manage PPC campaigns, optimisation and analysis.
- Manage online merchandising of products for Nimlok Portables, optimising customer journey to improve conversion rates.
- Create and execute email campaigns, including scheduling, and managing sends to foster engagement and conversions.
- Manage and run products being advertised on paid platforms such as Facebook/Instagram (ecommerce), Google Shopping and LinkedIn.
- To work with the Marketing Manager to promote and amplify content across online channels, looking for new ways to provide value and be purposeful with the content that is released.
- To update and manage website content, making sure all information is correct, consistent with our brand standards, and optimised for search engines in accordance with relevant keywords.
- Monitor and analyse results to improve performance, using tools such as Google Analytics and others
- Monitor and report on e-commerce customer reviews.
- Manage internal design resources on web content projects
- Proactively manage external support (see Communications & Working Relationships)
- Actively participate in internal and external meetings where attendance is required
- Carry out any other reasonable managerial requests
The role is based at Nimlok’s prestigious facility based in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Candidates should live within a reasonable commuting distance (max 40 miles).
In return we can offer a competitive salary (£25k DOE) + benefits including: Pension with employer contribution, Health Care scheme and Death in Service. Core working hours are Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00.
If you are looking for your next challenge as a Digital Marketing Executive then we want to hear from you, please click APPLY!
At Nimlok we create engaging exhibition stands helping our clients achieve enhanced results from exhibiting at trade exhibitions across Europe and increasingly further afield. This is an exciting, creative and dynamic business with a 70+ strong team and purpose-built facility with fantastic equipment and resources.
Nimlok’s unique formula uses a clever blend of modular hired architecture with bespoke features and graphics to deliver custom stands more efficiently. With a focus on visitor engagement, we also lead the way in pioneering exciting new ways for our clients to tell their story with investment in technology and digital content creation skills, setting us apart from our traditional rivals.
Role Overview:
To develop and execute a comprehensive social media strategy across key platforms, effectively telling the story of our brands and showcasing our projects through engaging content. This is a new dedicated role to the business and is central to developing our social brand presence, engagement and traffic from this channel.
You’ll report directly to the Marketing Manager (Nimlok & CE) who will be responsible for the overall marketing plans for Nimlok and Conference Expo. You’ll also have a dotted line report to to our Head of Ecommerces & Digital Marketing Manager.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the Marketing Manager and Head of Ecommerce to create and implement a social media strategy that aligns with our brand’s vision and goals.
- Create, curate, and manage all published content (videos, photos, graphics, written) across platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook/Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok.
- Shoot and edit video content of stand projects, engagement tools and internal business activities.
- Work closely with marketing and e-commerce teams to develop campaigns that promote our products and services.
- Transform long-form content into engaging social media copy.
- Travel to exhibition venues in the UK to capture engaging stand footage and testimonials for social media content.
- Support sales teams with LinkedIn content.
- Manage a social media content calendar for all brands and schedule posts.
- Coordinate any professional photography/videography of client stands when outside of role scope
- Engage with our online community professionally and timely.
- Monitor, analyse, and report on social media performance.
- Stay updated with social media trends and recommend new ideas for enhancing our presence.
- Proactively manage external support (see Communications & Working Relationships)
- Actively participate in internal and external meetings where attendance is required
- Carry out any other reasonable managerial requests
The role is based at Nimlok’s prestigious facility based in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Candidates should live within a reasonable commuting distance (max 40 miles).
Travel will be necessary to exhibition events to capture on stand footage.
In return we can offer a competitive salary (£25k DOE) + benefits including: Pension with employer contribution, Health Care scheme and Death in Service. Core working hours are Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00.
If you are looking for your next challenge as a Social Media Executive then we want to hear from you, please click APPLY!
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Nimlok Benefits
We offer a competitive salary, 23 days holiday plus all public holidays and two extra holiday days can be earned for full attendance in any year. After a qualifying service period you will also benefit from:
- Company pension plan that is fully auto enrolment compliant
- 4x salary Death in Service insurance cover
- Non contributory Private Medical Insurance
- Healthshield Cash Benefit for Dental, Optical and Complementary therapies
- Our ‘Employee of the Month’ scheme rewards individual members of staff who go the extra mile. We also award individual departments and employees who have excelled throughout the year at our end of year celebrations.
Supporting charities and the community
Over the years we have raised thousands of pounds for charities – Breast Cancer Campaign, Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance, Macmillan Cancer Care, British Heart Foundation, The Stroke Association and Great Ormond Street Hospital have been just a few of the causes we have supported.
For the past few years our nominated charity has been the Andrew Grene Foundation which supports education, finance and building projects in Haiti.
Be warned though if you are watching calories! Our fundraising activities usually revolve around staff cake bakes and other gastronomic events, including our very popular Sizzling Sausage Fridays!
We regularly visit schools, colleges and universities in the area to help students with CV writing and interview skills, or to attend careers events. We offer internships and work placements for local students whenever possible.