Art Gallery Assistant

Salary: Competitive basic salary with an un-capped commission structure + 20 days holiday (+ BH) + Pension

Due to continued success our Gallery in the heart of Colchester, we are recruiting for full-time Sales Consultant to join our dynamic team.
You will be representing an exceptional collection of over 120 artists including Rob Bishop, Mark Davies, Nigel Cooke, Fabian Perez, Sherree Valentine Daines, Tom Butler & JJ Adams.
We are looking for confident, outgoing, well-presented individuals that can strike up and develop client relationships with ease.

THE ROLE

This is a successful established gallery with a team dedicated to providing a personal service to our clientele. You will offer professional, friendly and expert consultations selling sculptures, limited edition and original paintings.

The role also includes a unique home approval service where we offer consultations in the comfort of your client’s home.

You will be striving to achieve realistic but challenging individual sales targets and build a loyal client base.

You will be providing support and offer exceptional customer service, attending artist events, developing your client base, curating the gallery and ensuring the gallery is well-presented.

REQUIREMENTS

You will be a self-motivated individual who understands the tastes and requirements of your client and understands how to encourage new sales and develop successful relationships - ultimately a candidate that feels as passionate about selling art and providing a personal and unique service to our clients as we do.

You will be hardworking and motivated by sales targets and be inspired by commissionable sales to ensure monthly targets are achieved.

You will be confident, outgoing and personable. Personality is everything in this role!

If this is you – this may be your dream role!

We offer an exciting, creative, fun and professional working environment, No previous experience needed, as full training will be given

DESIRABLE

A driving licence (for home approvals).

This is a full-time role working 5 days per week or Part-time role working 3 days per week, you need to be flexible to work weekdays, weekends and on occasion evenings (for events and home approvals).

We would love to see a video application from you, please email this to us direct as this will support you in our recruitment process.
The video can be 1-2 minutes and will need to display your passion and your ability to develop relationships, and ultimately engage and inspire our clients!
You can include information on your studies and your career so far, and also why you would like to work for our truly unique and successful company!
we look forward to meeting you!

Unfortunately due to the volume of applications we receive we are unable to reply to unsuccessful candidates at this stage.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £17,290.00-£22,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Store discount

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme
• Commission pay
• Yearly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Colchester CO1 1JJ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person