Luxury Sales Consultant

As an Art Dealer with Clarendon Fine art, you will be joining a dynamic, fast paced sales and client focused team, who from our beautiful boutique gallery in Merry Hill 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, and 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.

The Role:

• 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 clients 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.
• 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.

About you:

• Ambitious and target driven with experience working to and achieving 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.

The Finer Details:

• Salary £25,000 - £29,000 ( based on a full time role this will be pro-rated dependent on number of days worked) base with uncapped commission potential (Average OTE £35,000 - 40,000)
• Uncapped and lucrative commission structure affording up to 5% of all sales made on and over 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.
• Working 3-4 days over 7 including weekends, bank holidays and occasional evening events.
• 33 days annual leave (25 days holiday plus bank holidays in lieu if worked, based on full time hours)
• 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% off art work.