Location
Guildford, Surrey | United Kingdom
Job description
As a Gallery Manager with Clarendon Fine art, you will be leading a dynamic, ambitious, sales and client focused team, who from our beautiful boutique gallery in Guildford provide a personalised consultation service to bring beautiful artwork to our exclusive and ever extending client base.
You don’t need to be an art expert for this role, we will teach you everything you need to know; however, you do need to have a hunger and drive to deliver an exceptional experience, to network and build your client base in order to meet and exceed sales targets.
As the world’s largest Gallery group, we hold an unrivalled reputation as the UK’s leading fine art publisher and distributor of original artwork and collectable limited editions. Through our extensive network of galleries, we showcase an award-winning, innovative, extensive, and adventurous portfolio of contemporary classics, modern masterpieces, statement street art and stunning sculpture. Founded 30 years ago by Helen Swaby to tackle the elitism that dominates the world of art, we work in partnership with many of the finest artists from around the world, showcasing award winners and household names such as Mr Brainwash, Christian Hook, and Fabian Perez. Alongside this our portfolio offers our clients an exciting range of 20th century masters such as L.S Lowry, Picasso, Chagall, and Dali.
The quality of our portfolio and the relationships we build with our clients both existing and new is what sets us apart from the rest.
Day to day you will:
- Be a motivational leader of your sales team, focused on creating a memorable customer experience by building rapport, sharing product knowledge, and catering to your clients’ needs.
- Reporting into the Area Sales Manager you will develop and motivate your team, identifying opportunities to develop your galleries client base.
- Provide a first-class consultative service to all clients to create desire and convert to sales.
- Build and nurture long term client relationships to create loyalty and sales opportunity.
- Deliver a personalised service including private artwork showings in gallery, at the client’s home, or office, to showcase artwork specifically selected for the client.
- Engage with and build your client database using the CRM to create deep and lasting relationships to create sales and experience opportunities, ensuring your sales team do the same.
- Curate the gallery to always be beautiful and inspiring, bringing the artwork to life to attract new business.
- Manage and host your client guestlist at an array of Artists events with a view to creating memorable interactions and experiences for your clients whilst selling pieces to enrich their lives.
What we’re looking for:
- Proven experience in luxury sales management, leading a sales team to hit individual monthly sales targets.
- Ambitious and target driven with experience working to and achieving personal targets/sales figures.
- Warm, confident, and outgoing personality that will welcome our clients, creating the desire for artwork, making it easy for them to buy.
- Intuitive, engaging and creative with the ability to understand the clients’ preferences and desires to match and convert the sale on their perfect piece of art.
- Luxury sales experience is advantageous but not essential.
- An art background or passion for art would again be advantageous but not essential.
What we’ll offer you:
- Competitive base salary with uncapped commission potential (Average OTE £50,000 - £60,000)
- Lucrative commission structure affording up to 5% of all sales made on and over target. Plus potential of additional bonus dependent on your sales team hitting target.
- Industry leading Art Academy training course to provide you with the tools you need to succeed.
- Beautiful Gallery setting, architecturally designed to exquisitely display the artist portfolio.
- 40hrs per week, working 5 days over 7 including weekends and occasional evening events.
- 33 days annual leave (25 days holiday plus bank holidays in lieu if worked)
- Contributory employee pension scheme.
Employee PERKS through Bravo benefits inc. discounts on food, drink, retailers, and fun days.
- Sell artwork, buy art work – as a thank you for all your hard work we offer a fantastic employee discount scheme of up to 50%
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£30k - £35k per annum
