Woodbury House
Art Consultant
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Reporting to: Sales Director | Compensation: £28,000 base salary plus uncapped commission. On-target earnings of £100,000, uncapped, as you build and develop your client book | On-site, Woodbury House, 29 Sackville Street, Mayfair, London, W1S 3DX
About Woodbury House
Woodbury House is seeking an Art Consultant to join and help build the gallery's New Business team. This role is the front line of how the gallery wins and develops new collectors: responding to enquiries, qualifying genuine opportunities, building relationships, and, working directly alongside the Sales Director, turning interest into sales and long-term collectors.
Woodbury House is a contemporary art gallery based in Mayfair, London and Dubai, UAE, specialising in street art and graffiti art. Founded in 2014, the gallery has developed an international reputation for working with pioneering and historically significant artists from the street art movement. The gallery represents and works with internationally recognised artists including Blek le Rat, Richard Hambleton, Lee Quinones, DEFER, Gary Stranger, Torrick "TOXIC" Ablack and Swoon, while also curating exhibitions that explore the evolution of street art from its origins on the streets to its place within major collections, galleries and museums worldwide.
Operating from our flagship gallery in Mayfair, Woodbury House provides collectors with a highly personalised experience through exhibitions, private appointments, collector events and tailored acquisition guidance. Our approach to selling reflects that: consultative, relationship-led and built on trust, never pressure.
As the gallery continues to grow, we are building a dedicated New Business team, and we are looking for an Art Consultant to take ownership of the first stage of the collector journey and grow with us into managing and closing their own client relationships.
The Role
This is a hands-on sales role at the front of the gallery's growth. The successful candidate will take ownership of new enquiries, respond quickly and professionally, qualify genuine buying potential, and develop those relationships into sales, working directly alongside the Sales Director, one-to-one, on the higher-value conversations and closing.
Woodbury House generates a strong and growing flow of new enquiries through paid media, exhibitions and referrals. This role ensures that each of them is handled properly: contacted quickly, understood, nurtured, and progressed, so nothing is lost and the strongest opportunities are developed to their full potential.
This is a genuine ground-floor opportunity in a scaling division. You will learn directly from experienced, high-value sales conversations, and as your knowledge, confidence and results develop, you will take on more ownership, managing, nurturing and closing your own client relationships. There is a clear, merit-based path to progress to Senior Art Consultant and Client Account Manager.
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Key Responsibilities
New Business & Client Engagement
- Respond quickly and professionally to all new inbound enquiries
- Take ownership of the first conversation with each prospective client
- Establish the client's interests, motivations, budget and purchasing timeframe
- Understand what generated their interest, and use it to shape the conversation
- Introduce relevant artists, artworks and exhibitions
- Identify genuine buying signals and distinguish serious opportunities from casual enquiries
Qualification & Opportunity Development
- Ask the right questions to properly understand each client
- Assess engagement and likelihood to purchase, and prioritise accordingly
- Develop qualified opportunities and identify those that warrant senior input
- Arrange appointments, private viewings and video calls
Closing & Collaborative Selling
- Work alongside the Sales Director to develop and close opportunities
- Stay involved with the client through to the sale. This is a collaborative process, not a handover of the lead
- Keep the client informed and engaged before and after their conversations with the Sales Director
- Prepare relevant artwork, artist and market information for client conversations
- Learn directly from higher-value conversations and negotiations
- Progressively take greater ownership of opportunities, moving toward closing your own
CRM & Pipeline Management
- Own the day-to-day accuracy of the HubSpot CRM
- Enter and categorise every enquiry, and log calls, emails and client information
- Keep deal stages and follow-up tasks up to date so nothing goes cold
- Provide the Sales Director with accurate pipeline information
Follow-Up & Nurturing
- Maintain relationships with prospects who are not ready to buy immediately
- Re-engage quiet enquiries, using new works, exhibitions and market developments as reasons to reconnect
- Ensure promising opportunities are continually progressed, never forgotten
Working With the Team
- Work day to day with the Sales Director on developing and closing opportunities
- Work with the Gallery Manager around exhibitions, appointments and collector events
- Support a clean, shared view of the pipeline that the whole sales team can rely on
The Sales Environment at Woodbury House
Selling at Woodbury House is consultative and relationship-led, a long way from high-pressure or volume sales. We work with serious collectors and historically significant artists, and the standard is set accordingly: understand first, recommend second, and never push. Credibility and trust are the assets, and they are built through knowledge, judgement and genuine client care. This is a luxury, advisory environment, and the way we sell protects the reputation that the gallery is built on. Success here is measured by the quality and progression of the opportunities you create and the relationships you build, not by the number of calls you make.
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Working Pattern
This is an in-house role, five days a week, based at the gallery. The work is the gallery: the exhibitions, the artists, the collectors, and the team are all here, and the first year of this role is about learning the business, the artists, and the market up close. Not every hour is spent at a desk. Client meetings, viewings and collector events will take you out of the gallery. But this is a gallery-based role, not remote, because the activity is created in the gallery.
Gallery opening hours, which frame the working day:
- Monday to Thursday: 10:00 to 18:00
- Friday: 10:00 to 17:00
- Private view evenings around exhibitions
Skills & Experience
Essential
- Proven sales ability, with a track record of building relationships and converting interest into results
- A confident, warm and articulate communicator, in person, on the phone and in writing
- Strong organisational discipline: you follow up, you prioritise well, and you do not let opportunities slip
- Comfortable working from a CRM and keeping it accurate
- Commercially minded, able to spot a genuine opportunity and develop it
- Self-motivated and target-driven, with the resilience a sales role requires
Beneficial
- Experience selling to discerning or high-net-worth clients
- Background in art, luxury goods, luxury or high-end designer retail, private shopping, jewellery, luxury cars, finance, recruitment, or another fast-paced sales or B2B environment
- Experience with HubSpot or a similar CRM and sales tools
- A genuine interest in art, design or culture
Prior experience in the art world is not essential. The artists, the market and the systems can be taught to the right salesperson. What matters most is genuine sales ability, the discipline to properly work a pipeline, and the character to build trust with serious collectors. We are looking for someone hungry to build a career, take pride in their work, and grow with a scaling division.
How to Apply
Apply directly through this listing with your CV and a short note explaining why this role appeals to you. If your application looks like a good fit, we will be in touch to arrange a short introductory conversation to see if we could be a good fit for each other.
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