What are the responsibilities and job description for the Trade Show Coordinator position at Blum, Inc?
Job Description
Job Description
Are you a creative, detail-oriented, energetic, organizer / motivator looking for a new challenge? Do you see opportunities and possibilities where others may see problems and dead ends? Do you want to be part of a family-owned industry-leading company as it begins the process of growing itself to its next level? If so, read on and let’s see if your skill set is a match for what we are looking for.
Job Description
We are trying to find a smart and collaborative Trade Show Coordinator to join our marketing team. You will report to the Marketing Product Group Manager. No direct supervisory responsibility. You will work primarily with the Cabinet Shop, Sales Reps, Supply Chain, Accounting, Industrial Engineering, Materials group, Logistics, Marketing & Trade Show Vendors and be responsible (along with the other Trade Show Coordinator) for leading the creative team that envisions each new trade show booth / experience, as well as for designing and drawing the elements of the show, coordinating the building of trade show displays and onsite coordinating of both the booth set up and take down with show vendors.
If you love great benefits, a stable work environment and want to accelerate your career growth significantly by linking up with an established international company, we would love for you to apply.
Job Responsibilities
This is an opportunity for you to really make a difference. For the ideal candidate this would represent a career move that involves a job stretch (bigger job), increased satisfaction (doing more satisfying work with more impact) and job growth (being in a situation that offers more upside potential).
Here are some of the things you will be expected to accomplish :
- Assist with plans, designs, drawings, costs & builds for trade shows, product displays, working samples, creative layouts, showrooms & exhibit floorplans
- Use CAD design software to create display designs, exhibit layouts, display renderings, working model designs, & produce detailed display drawings for review & production
- Use Illustrator or other illustration software to create exhibit & display graphics
- Create exhibit layout plans, materials lists & delivery of materials to show / exhibit
- Work with show vendors to plan & order services for exhibits
- Coordinate between external vendors, internal departments, and Trade Show planning teams.
- Coordinate setup & dismantling of trade show displays & exhibits
- Assist with planning & designing physical product displays within each department
- Interact with internal departments to create working model displays
- Occasional domestic & international travel is required
- Can work a semi-flexible office schedule but is expected to work whenever required
- Keep up to date on latest trends and tools in materials and Trade Show world
- Create trade show booth & display plans for different audiences including designers, cabinet makers and local trade shows
- Create floor plans for different audiences including designers, cabinet makers and local trade shows
- Create exhibit & display graphics
- Create working models plans
- Create task lists & schedules for setting up show booths
- Converse with vendors and outside sources to create show specific service lists & procure related material
- Assist in the construction of show booths & displays
- Assist in the planning & design of product displays (all areas of the facility)
Job Requirements
Most important is having hands-on knowledge of the following :
Desired Attributes
Benefits
Blum USA believes in offering their employees an excellent benefits package that includes :
Company Overview
For more than 60 years Blum has been manufacturing superior quality hinge systems, drawer runners, and lift systems that create emotion and enhance user convenience in the kitchen. With every product, we strive to develop solutions to ensure that cabinet doors and drawers open with ease, close softly and effortlessly and make workflow and everyday kitchen use easier.
Over the decades our product range has grown and so has the company. Today, Blum has eight production plants in Austria and manufacturing sites in Brazil, Poland, China, and the United States. Approximately 9000 Blum employees all over the world concentrate on the vision of “perfecting motion” to satisfy the specific requirements of the end user, whether it is in the kitchen or in another living area of the home. This is the source of all our product development and innovation.
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