Home Visits Buyer – Jewellery & Antiques

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Home-visits buyer valuing and purchasing jewellery, antiques, and collectibles for WeBuyVintage, a UK vintage retailer. Travelling across Wales to customers’ homes and occasional roadshows.

Responsibilities:

  • Attend multiple home-visit appointments per day across 3 or 4 days per week
  • Provide expert valuations and purchase offers for customers’ antiques, jewellery and collectibles
  • Quickly assess items presented for purchase
  • Present a professional, informative and respectful demeanour with customers
  • Negotiate purchase offers when required
  • Explain why items may not be suitable for purchase
  • Attend regular buying roadshow events as an expert and buyer from time to time
  • Travel daily to customers’ homes across Wales

Requirements:

  • Demonstrable experience buying and/or selling antiques, collectibles, gold and jewellery
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Proven track record in building customer relationships
  • Confident negotiation skills with good commercial awareness
  • Keen interest in gold, jewellery, silver, cameras, binoculars, toys, costume jewellery, writing instruments, militaria, music or movie memorabilia, or similar vintage specialisms
  • Experience buying and/or selling antiques, collectibles and jewellery as a dealer or valuer in an auction setting
  • Commercially savvy salesperson and negotiator
  • Personable, likeable and trustworthy
  • Willingness to travel longer distances, with drive times generally within 2 hours
  • Willingness to stay away from home when locations necessitate
  • Full UK driving licence and own car
  • Ability to work 3 or 4 days per week across Monday to Saturday

Benefits:

  • Commission
  • Mileage and a car allowance
  • 4-day working week
  • Access to Bright Exchange employee discounts and perks
  • Employee Assistance Programme with confidential, 24/7 support for the employee and immediate family
  • On-demand professional development through BrightHR’s online learning platform
  • Career progression support
  • Competitive pay