Alchemy is working with an established art business to appoint a highly organised and commercially minded Business Manager to work closely with the Founder across management, sales operations, business performance, and finance.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the key operational link between the Founder and the sales team
- Support team management, performance, structure, and accountability
- Oversee and improve sales operations, reporting, and internal processes
- Implement systems and workflows to improve efficiency and commercial performance
- Assist with financial oversight, reporting, budgeting, and operational organisation
- Monitor sales activity, targets, pipeline management, and team performance
- Work closely with leadership on strategy, business growth, and operational priorities
- Help create consistency, structure, and clear communication across the business
- Support hiring, onboarding, and internal team coordination where required
- Identify operational challenges and proactively implement solutions
Key requirements
- Previous experience in business management, commercial operations, sales operations, finance, or team leadership
- Strong management and organisational skills
- Commercially aware, operationally focused, and highly detail-oriented
- Confidently managing personalities and improving team performance
- Process-driven with the ability to introduce structure and accountability
- Comfortable working directly alongside senior leadership
- Strong reporting, operational, and financial understanding
- Self-starting, proactive, and solutions-focused
- Experience from luxury, beauty, fashion, hospitality, retail, or other high-performance environments is welcomed
- Art world experience is not essential