Sales Coordinator Position

NuNano is a UK-based start-up specialising in the design and manufacture of probes for atomic force microscopy (AFM).  We are passionate about providing AFM users great products and the best possible customer service, from the first time they visit our website to storing their probes after a successful day in the lab.

Following a successful market entry, NuNano is now looking for an enthusiastic, highly-motivated and well-organised individual with previous sales or business administration experience to join our commercial team in Bristol and play a key role in our future growth.

Key Roles

You will play an important role in the commercial activity of NuNano, working in a small team to support our sales activities and help sell products to academic and industrial customers worldwide.  Ensuring sales leads and ongoing sales pipeline activities are captured, validated and recorded accurately is vital to the role.  Other responsibilities include:

• Ensuring quotations and orders are prepared and recorded accurately and promptly.

• Communication with partners to assist with quotations and order processing.

• Arrange sales visits and attendance/sponsorship at scientific conference and tradeshows.

• Support other members of the sales team.

Preferred Experience

We are looking for someone who understands that strong sales performance is underpinned by the meticulous organisation of the sales pipeline and related activities.   Preferred experience includes:

• Experience in a commercial/sales area involving contact with customers.

• Knowledge & experience of lead generation and sales pipeline management.

• Ability to record and present data and information accurately.

To apply, please send a cover letter and CV to info@nunano.co

Come and chat to our MD James at the Annual Linz WinterWorkshop

Our MD James is excited to be heading to Linz, Austria at the beginning of February to attend the XXI. Annual Linz WinterWorkshop.

Starting with a ski trip on Friday 1st February, the workshop runs for 4 days and focuses on single-molecule research for biology and nanoscience with speakers from universities all over the world. Our co-founder Mervyn Miles, a professor at the University of Bristol, School of Physics, will be giving a talk at the workshop at 10:30am on Monday 4th February.  The talk is called “AFM distinguishes infectious and non-infectious prion ultrastructures” - don’t miss it!

The workshop will be a fantastic event for exploring force and optical microscopy/spectroscopy techniques, and a great opportunity to talk with members of the scanning probe microscopy community from different countries. Make sure to come and find James with any questions about AFM, or NuNano and our products.  We’re always interested to hear about new research in scanning force microscopy!

Welcome to our new team members Lee and Poppy

Our team continues to grow as Lee and Poppy have joined us at UnitDX in Bristol. Lee as our new Sales & Business Development Manager, and Poppy as a marketing intern. Lee has a long background in pathology and has been in medical IT for the last 3 years. Poppy is an undergraduate at Bristol University studying French and Russian and is joining us during her supplementary year. We look forward to working with them both.

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James (our MD) joins the RMS SPM Section committee

The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) has several scientific section commitees, covering the main areas of microscopy. They advise RMS on matters such as the training and resources they provide and ensure that the society is up to date with the latest developments in microscopy.

Our managing director, James has recently joined the Scanning Probe Microscopy Section committee alongside four other company representatives in the field. He looks forward to making a contribution to the committee moving forward.

NuNano collaborate with University of Bristol marketing students

We think it’s important to get some outsider perspective once in a while. Having some fresh eyes to look at a challenge we are facing is always welcome.

Thus, we are delighted to be working with three groups of MSc marketing students at the University of Bristol who will be producing a communications plan for us on how we might effectively market our probes to AFM users in Japan and China.

We are really looking forward to reading their final piece of work in December and we hope they will take away some practical skills to use in their future careers.

Some more new faces at NuNano

It’s always exciting to have some new faces about the office. A big welcome to Sarah, David, and David who have joined us as sales interns in our Bristol home, UnitDX. Sarah and David are second year Chemistry students at the University of Bristol and Samar has recently graduated with a BSc in Physics and Philosophy.

We are really looking forward to getting to know them, showing them the ropes, and learning a little from them aswell.

Hannah and Helen join the team

We said goodbye to our sales interns, Julian and Katie at the end of last month. They did an amazing job this summer, generating many new leads for us and reaching out to potential customers outside the UK.

Now, we are pleased to welcome Hannah, our new process engineer and Helen, our new part-time administrator. Hannah is currently finishing her PhD at the University of Edinburgh and Helen was previously manager of the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials at the University of Bristol.

Our co-founder and director Merv will give an invited talk at IMC19

This week, our co-founder and director Mervyn Miles is at the 19th International Microscopy Congress (IMC19) in Sydney, Australia. There looks to be an interesting range of AFM-related talks and if you are at the conference, be sure to catch Merv's invited talk on Thursday 13th September entitled "High-speed AFM and the Essential Role of Water Molecules".

Speak to our MD James at SPMonSPM2018

Our managing director, James, will be driving all the way from Bristol to attend the SPMonSPM2018 conference, running from the 20-24th of August in Leuven, Belgium. Find him for a chat if you are interested in finding out more about NuNano and the products we offer. 

We are also excited to be sponsoring the lanyards at the conference and you'll also find some NuNano items in your conference pack. 

Our team is growing...

Our office space at Unit DX is really filling up. We are really pleased to welcome our two new sales interns, Julian Green and Katie Rich who will join us for the summer months to help us connect with AFM users outside Europe. Julian has just completed his degree in politics and philosophy at the University of Bristol and Katie is an MPhys student at Durham University.

Visit our stand at UK SPM 2018

We are really looking forward to exhibiting at UK SPM in only two days’ time (June 25th - 26th).

We feel that this conference is a perfect starting point for us as a company to exhibit ourselves and a great opportunity to chat with members of the scanning probe microscopy community from the UK and beyond.

Do drop by our stand when you visit the exhibition hall, which will contain a large amount of bright green so you probably won’t miss us. We’d really love to hear about your research and the areas of scanning probe microscopy that interest you.

Chinese distribution agreement with Shanghai NTI Co., Ltd.

First Japan, now China! We are delighted to announce that we have closed a distribution agreement with Shanghai NTI Co., Ltd., a supplier of micro- and nanoscience instrumentation and accessories to researchers based in China.

At NuNano, we aim to stay up to date with the latest research developments related to atomic force microscopy and know that China continuously outputs such interesting research.

James, our MD, comments "Through our agreement with Shanghai NTI Co., Ltd., we are excited to see how our AFM probes will contribute to this research output."

Japanese distribution agreement with Filgen Inc.

We are pleased to announce that we have signed a distribution agreement with the Japanese company, Filgen Inc., a supplier of scientific equipment to the bioscience and nanoscience research communities in Japan. 

Japan has always been on our radar as an important country in which to market and sell our AFM probes, given its reputation as a leading nation in nanotechnology research.

James Vicary, MD of NuNano, comments "We are looking forward to seeing our probes being utilised in some of the innovative nanoscience and materials research emerging from Japan."

Welcome to our new sales intern

We are pleased to welcome Amira as our new sales intern, who will join us for the next two months. She has recently finished her degree in psychology at the University of Bristol so we are really excited to see how she approaches NuNano sales activity from this angle. 

NuNano go for gold

We are pleased to announce the addition of a gold reflective backside coating to our existing probe range. This will extend the capability of our probes to atomic force microscopy imaging in liquid media such as biological buffers.

We are excited to see in which new areas of research our customers will utilize our gold-coated probes and the type of samples they will now be able to image.

Check out our store for pricing or to place an order. If you require more information about our new offering, please do not hesitate to get in touch by sending an email to info@nunano.com.

We won't be stopping here. Future product development will include coating the tips of our AFM probes with gold. Sign up to our mailing list to be the first to know when we have these in stock.

£500 sponsorship for ISPM 2018

The annual International Scanning Probe Microscopy conference (ISPM) is taking place on the 8-11th May in Tempe, Arizona. Unfortunately, we won't be present at the conference this year but we are delighted to offer a UK-based PhD student or postdoc who will be presenting a talk, a £500 sponsorship towards their travel and accommodation.

Speakers are due to be announced on Friday 30th March 2018. If/when you or one of your PhD students or postdocs has been accepted to present a talk, applications can be made via the form here.

Helpful AFM-related resources

It is important to us that as well as a provider of AFM probes, we are a source of helpful resources for the AFM community. We are pleased to announce the launch of our AFM-related articles in the Resources area of our website. Whether you are someone starting out in AFM or a more experienced user, there will be something there to interest you. Keep an eye on our Resources page as we begin to build up this section of our website.

Product survey

As we consider which type of probe to develop next, it is vital that we get input from AFM users.  We have created a really quick, 1-question product survey to encourage the AFM community to shape our future product development. Help us decide which probes to bring out next by filling it in here. It should only take a minute!