PRIMARY FUNCTION/POSITION
Support the Business Director with coordination of the day to day operations of our business across the Classic and Old Masters groups including Decorative Arts, Sculptures, Books and Manuscripts, Old Master Paintings, Old Master Drawings, and allocated Collections.
Support on calendar planning, catalogue production, tours, pre-sale set up and viewing. Coordination of disputes and stock. Support with preparation and compilation of presentation decks, departmental reporting; Specialist tracking and market share data.
Acts as part of international team supporting global initiatives as required.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS (Duties include but are not limited to the following):
Business, Financial & Risk support.
Delegated Online auction business support
Compile statistics on competitor sales pre and post-sale (i.e. sale statistics)
Prepare all sale week communications
Compile all third party costs
Coordinate stock management support
Maintain live runner of active client issues, disputes, risk and insurance cases minute weekly / monthly meetings and escalation to Business Director.
Support Specialist Tracking entries, amendments for department.
Operational support & people
Support on overall temporary staff, management of training & overall hours
Maintain overall department Classic & Old Masters Paris calendar
Oversee the sale calendar and viewing schedules for the department, working closely with Operations and Heads of Department
Coordination support on catalogue and dedicated catalogue production process and help to track against deadlines
Coordination support of tours and exhibitions for sale highlights and liaise with centralized tour coordinator.
Coordinate sale, tour, marketing and viewing deadlines for departments.
Support Business Director during all sale week, logistics, financial Meeting preparation
Other duties Business Coordinator support as and when required
Qualification requirements
Be a highly organized individual, who can think outside of the box and readily adapt to changes
Exceptional client service skills including strong verbal and written communication skills (French & English)
Strong Project management skills including ability to multi-task, prioritize and manage multiple processes
Strong ability to monitor task progress and ensure consistency in approach.
Strong attention to detail and follow-up skills
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including superior written and spoken communication.
Ability to remain calm in stressful situations
Ability to creatively problem solve
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Founded in 1766, Christie’s is a world-leading art and luxury business. Renowned and trusted for its expert live and online auctions, as well as its bespoke private sales, Christie’s offers a full portfolio of global services to its clients, including art appraisal, art financing, international real estate and education. Christie’s has a physical presence in 46 countries, throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific, with flagship international sales hubs in New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris and Geneva. It also is the only international auction house authorized to hold sales in mainland China (Shanghai).
Christie’s auctions span more than 80 art and luxury categories, at price points ranging from $200 to over $100 million. In recent years, Christie’s has achieved the world record price for an artwork at auction (Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvador Mundi, 2017), for a single collection sale (the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, 2018), and for a work by a living artist (Jeff Koons’ Rabbit, 2019).
Christie’s Private Sales offers a seamless service for buying and selling art, jewellery and watches outside of the auction calendar, working exclusively with Christie’s specialists at a client’s individual pace.
Recent innovations at Christie’s include the groundbreaking sale of the first NFT for a digital work of art ever offered at a major auction house (Beeple’s Everydays, March 2021), with the unprecedented acceptance of cryptocurrency as a means of payment. As an industry leader in digital innovation, Christie’s also continues to pioneer new technologies that are redefining the business of art, including the creation of viewing and bidding experiences that integrate augmented reality, global livestreaming, buy-now channels, and hybrid sales formats.
Christie’s is dedicated to advancing responsible culture throughout its business and communities worldwide, including achieving sustainability through net zero carbon emissions by 2030.
