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Events and Business Development
New York, NYApply Now
Set your sights on a career at Heritage Auctions, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with offices in New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills, London, Hong Kong, and other cities. For the past 47 years, Heritage Auctions has been the largest auction house founded in the U.S. and serves more than 40 different auction categories, including Coins, Sports, Comics, Historical, Jewelry, Fine & Decorative Art, Wine, and many more.
BENEFITS:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Paid time off
- 401k savings plans
- Daily Pay: Access your pay when you need it!
LOCATION:
445 Park Ave New York, NY 10022
COMPENSATION: $26-28/hr
COMPENSATION:
Commensurate based on experience.
SUMMARY:
This new role for our expanded New York operation will increase efforts to garner business through Events Programming, Foundation and Museum Services, and the Legacy Program (mostly unimplemented), all to strategically identify new clients and deepen the relationship with existing ones at Heritage Auctions, among other duties.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Implement and expand on the strategic Events Program developed in CHO in New York for immediate and long-term goals which include the cultivation of cultural partners, NY-area celebrities and their agents, and industry specialists to generate awareness and develop our brand, especially in emerging collecting. Assist in identifying target groups to invite to previews, such as clubs, collector groups and T&E professionals. Work with the global team as requested.
- Pay specific attention to audience, promotions, programming, evaluation of return on investment, and continued relationship building with all attendees and gather data for BD team.
- Work closely with the business development team to establish criteria to identify qualified clients for outreach, invites, and special campaigns.
- Develop and oversee the NYO process implementation, best practices, and assessment of return for all events.
- Keep abreast of competitor events, trends, social and events calendars with the goal to maximize our presence in the secondary (and perhaps primary) collecting communities.
- Act as an informed HA ambassador and potential point of contact for client facing events, initiatives, and experiences at internal and external New York events, or elsewhere as requested.
- Assist PR team, as requested during events, media days and other needs; assist with social media and other soft marketing as requested.
- Assist in ensuring the expanded gallery always looks good, working with all relevant marketing and visual teams to maximize the space.
- Active outreach to key stakeholders at cultural institutions and museums to offer and provide existing HA services and create new mutually beneficial partnerships.
- Concierge service to qualified NY Legacy Clients—work with lead SPs and offer direct communications, special invitations, exclusive access, and perks
- EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- High school diploma required; Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Minimum 2+ years of operations, client service, and/or coordinating experience preferred
- Strong knowledge of logistics
SKILLS & ABILITIES:
- Action-oriented with skills and aptitude to excel in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task
- Must be highly detail-oriented
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to communicate with all organizational levels
- Flexibility to work overtime and weekend hours when necessary
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Individual must be able to work independently in a fast-paced environment. During peak periods, there may be mandatory overtime; work extended hours nights and weekends.
Heritage Auctions welcomes and encourages applications from women, minorities, veterans, mature workers, and persons with disabilities. EOE
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