Behind every great experience is a great team
Teams at the NEC Group
By delivering engaging content, hosted in world-renowned venues with award-winning services, the NEC Group provides unforgettable live experiences that reunite audiences year after year – in fact, around seven million people come together at more than 750 events at our venues annually to learn, conduct business and be entertained...but events don’t happen on their own. Behind every unforgettable live experience is a fantastic team that brings our NEC Group vision to life.
What makes us unique?
The NEC Group has over forty years' of experience in the live events
We’re not just the one of the world’s top venue management companies; we also manage a range of support services and businesses that take our expertise further afield and to do that, we need specialists from behind the scenes to the main stage – here are just a few of the expert teams who help bring live to life.
The NEC Group is a brilliantly diverse business and our teams have a great variety of specialisms and strengths, but we all benefit from one particularly unique aspect – we ‘live above the shop’ , and as a result, we see our teams create unforgettable live experiences every day.

Event Management
Event Management
Our Event Management teams are hands on with every event across all of our NEC Group venues, working on consultation and planning, management and delivery. They’ve been there, done it and got the t-shirt at everything from Spring Fair to Springsteen, Beyoncé to the Baby Show and a host of conferences, association and corporate events

Marketing Services
Marketing Services
Creative designs, brand collateral, campaign management and execution, understanding the marketplace, industry trends, data driven programmes, communications strategy, online and digital outputs: the Marketing Services team work together to co-ordinate activity and maximise output and impact.

Health and Safety
Health and Safety
The Safety Team is made up of Safety, Food, Fire and Training professionals who are driven by an increasingly dynamic industry and a genuine passion for NEC Group staff and visitors to our venues. The team, via Oncourse, also offer a commercial training centre that delivers dynamic Health & Safety, Food and Fire training services across the U.K.

Rigging
Rigging
The NEC Group in-house rigging team offers effective design and management of rigging solutions for live events, concerts, exhibitions and conferences. The team - with 40 years’ knowledge and experience of venue and rigging practices within the events industry - offers an end to end service from installation through to removal of rigging at thousands of diverse, world class events from Crufts and One Direction, to machinery shows, AGMs and Christmas parties.

IT & Business Change
IT & Business Change
The NEC Group’s in-house IT team is made up of technical resources and event industry experts, working together to ensure that technology is fit for purpose across the business and customer experience is maximised.
The internal team manages campus-wide customer free Wi-Fi solutions and digital signage installations as well as providing project management and change support to internal teams. The team also comprises Business Relationship Managers to ensure all aspects of technology are maximised for the best of clients and customers. Technology Events Engineers support clients with all areas of exhibition, conference or arena set up including network and Wi-Fi access, exhibitor payment solutions and catering support in remote locations.

CAD
CAD
At the NEC Group we are a brilliantly diverse business offering unique experiences for our clients. As client demands are ever increasing with technology, they are always at the forefront of our event delivery. Our specialist CAD team allow clients to bring experiences and technicalities and show functionality to life through designing their events around specific client and customer needs.