CAREERS
Shop Manager
(FULL TIME POSITION) The Brant Foundation Shop offers a wide range of art-inspired merchandise, including custom items created in collaboration with contemporary artists and sold exclusively at The Brant Foundation Shop. Featuring artists’ seminal works, our exclusive collections highlight the Foundation’s commitment to promoting arts education by allowing visitors to bring contemporary art into spaces beyond the confines of museum walls and their everyday lives. In addition to our custom products and clothing, The Shop carries an assortment of catalogs, limited edition Brant Foundation exhibition posters, publications, and much more. The Brant Foundation Shop is primarily located in the Foundation’s East Village location.
Responsibilities:
- – Responsible for the day-to-day supervision of the Shop
- – Provide excellent customer service to develop meaningful and loyal client relationships
- – Basic store operations: processing shipments, conducting merchandise inventory, stocking and re-ordering merchandise from warehouse suppliers, tracking weekly, quarterly, and annual sales through Shopify reports
- – Contributes towards and exceeds store objectives and goals
- – Develop merchandise concepts and promotions with a creative and strategic marketing approach
- – Ability to use Shop data when choosing sale items and markdowns to reduce inventory
- – Assist in the selection and recommendation of new merchandise and designs
- – Ability to pitch ideas to senior management in a cohesive and professional manner
- – Oversee and maintain floor display
- – Keeps the store in a clean and presentable condition
- – Maintain Shopify platform and Facebook/Instagram/Google shop accounts
Qualifications:
- – Previous experience in retail services and marketing
- – Proficient in Shopify, including but not limited to reports, inventory management, and marketing
- – Fluent in Facebook/Instagram/Google business platforms
- – Strong verbal and written communication skills
- – Strong organizational skills, ability to prioritize, multitask, and meet deadlines
- – Proficient in Excel, Microsoft Word, and Adobe Platforms for creating marketing materials, product promotions, and advertisements.
Internship Program
The Brant Foundation’s Internship Program provides hands-on opportunities for high school and college students, recent graduates, and young professionals looking to gain experience working in the arts. Our internship program is unique in that it is designed around the individual’s specific areas of interest, academic background, skill-set, and career goals. Rather than being assigned to a single department or project, interns have the option to focus on a particular area of interest or participate in crossover training across a wide range of responsibilities. Areas of focus include: docent work (required), graphic design, social media and marketing, art handling, research and writing, and educational outreach. The objective of the internship program is to offer motivated individuals the opportunity to learn the professional skills and museum training necessary for a career in the arts.
