Manager, Furniture & Interiors

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Leonard Joel is seeking a positive, motivated and physically fit individual to manage our Thursday Auction Furniture department.

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Company: Leonard Joel

Location: Melbourne

Work type: Full Time

Salary: n\a

Phone: +61-7-6073-8289

Fax: +61-8-6676-5177

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Leonard Joel is a well-known and respected auction house dealing in Fine Art, Jewels, Decorative Arts and Private Collections. We are seeking a positive and motivated individual to manage our Furniture department. This department forms part of Leonard Joel's regular Thursday Auction.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Oversee and manage the Furniture auction and ensure adequate consistent stock so that budgeted hammers are met
  • Good level of physical fitness and the ability to adopt safe handling practices for moving, assembling and merchandising furniture for auction
  • Provide excellent customer service, field incoming telephone and email enquiries and engage with clients on the sale room floor. 
  • Maintaining key relationships with existing buyers & vendors
  • Conveying new business & single owner enquiries back to Head of Department
  • In conjunction with staff accountable to the department, ensure that all clients receive a copy of their inventory report/consignment note and Key Points of General Conditions of Business for their consigned goods prior to auction
  • Oversee management of delivery bookings
  • Identification, appraisal, consignment and allocation of goods for auction
  • Completing online valuations in a timely fashion
  • Estimate reductions for unsold lots and manage post sale offers
  • Monitor all storage facilities and maintain updated inventory of items in storage
  • Ensure the safe handling of clients’ property pre and post auction
  • In conjunction with staff accountable to the department, ensure that return goods to clients or items deemed unsaleable are documented with the appropriate paperwork
  • Computer literacy
  • Availability to work regular evening viewings as well as occasional weekends

Other requirements:

  • Computer literacy
  • Availability to work regular evening viewings as well as occasional weekends

Skills & Experience:

  • Sales and Customer Service
  • IT systems to support auction processes (i.e. database, website administration etc.)
  • Exposure to auction environment
  • Time management and organisational skills
  • Valuation experience across a broad range of categories
  • Auctioneering, where required
  • Generalist knowledge across a broad range of products/categories
  • Broad valuation knowledge
  • Warehouse management
  • Relationship management
  • Product knowledge
  • Time management & organisational skills

Leonard Joel is delighted to offer this opportunity to work in this dynamic, fast paced environment, which will offer the right candidate a strong grounding in the auction industry, as well as the opportunity to be part of a friendly and enthusiastic team.

To apply, please send a resume and covering letter addressing the Key Responsibilities to [email protected] by 5pm on Friday 20 July.

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