Job Description
EXHIBITION STAND DESIGNER
Location: Park Farm, Wellingborough, NN86NL
Salary: up to £40,000 (subject to experience)
Hours: Mon – Fri 9:00 – 17:00
At Nimlok we create engaging exhibition standshelping 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 75+ 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.
The Role:
As one of our experienced 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, your 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.
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 full scope 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
What do you need?
- 3 years’ experience (minimum) as an experienced 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)
What will you receive?
- An attractive salary and bonus scheme of up to £40,000 (subject to experience)
- 23 days annual leave + bank holidays (all pro-rata)
- Earn an extra 2 days annual leave each year for good attendance
- Cash Health Plan
- 4x Death In Service
- Pension
Based: Nimlok HQ, Wellingborough
Commutable Radius: Northampton, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Peterborough, Daventry, Market Harborough, Corby, Kettering.
Please see our Careers at Nimlok Linkedin page to learn a little more about us.
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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £32,000.00-£40,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Wellness programme
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Supplemental pay types:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Wellingborough: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: One location
Reference ID: EXHIBITION STAND DESIGNER