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GAURAV TANEJA 

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VISUAL MERCHANDISER -leveraging +6 years of experience

Highly creative Visual Merchandiser with the ability to drive brands forward through innovative visual schemes and concepts. Possessing a proven ability to make a strong impact with visual merchandising and have a flair for redesigning in-store layout to drive sales forwards. Have strong product knowledge and continuously implementing visual guidelines to make sure that visual standards are maintained at all the times. Adept at using Adobe Creative Suite programs, such as Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, or other visual design tools.

PROFILE SUMMARY

• Experience in  ensuring the strategy is in line with the store’s brand, products, and target market. Skilled in generating sketches of visual displays that meet the store’s visual design requirements.
• Proficient in preparing visual guides instructing retail branches throughout the country how to appropriately build out and design visual merchandising areas of the store. 
• Skilled in creating appealing and eye-catching visual displays that lead the customer through the entire store. 
• Demonstrable visual design skills with a strong retail merchandising portfolio and producing window displays, signs, interior displays, floor plans and special promotions displays. 

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Display Creation
• Commercial Photography
• Product Knowledge
• Specialty Displays
• Consumer Research
• Supplier Management 
• Brand Promotion
• Fashion Sketching
• Adobe Photoshop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Space Consultants, Hyderabad Sept. 2019- Oct. 2021

Visual Merchandiser  

• Conceived aesthetically appealing displays and product presentations to enhance the retail shopping experience for major department store franchise.
• Implemented corporate visual standards via planogram updates, emails, and verbal feedback. Produced and maintained displays, outfitted mannequins, and cut and installed vinyl displays.
• Crafted counter displays for home decor and small appliances, and oversaw holiday display setup and take-down.
• Collaborated with merchandising, sales management, operations, and signing and pricing teams to ensure accuracy of promotional presentations, key item placement, trend statements, and sale event setups and verify customer readiness standards placement. 
• Created well-received new concepts for windows, floors, department displays, and promotions to promote Shop for a Cause, Holiday Gift Card promotions and the Plenty Rewards Program launch.
• Enhanced aesthetic appeal of mannequins, windows, walkways, counters, and in-store displays positioning merchandise, fixtures, and displays to maximize customer interest and sales.

Congiz, Hyderabad Feb. 2016- Aug. 2019

Visual Merchandiser

• Assisted the visual manager in directing the communication, implementation, and follow-up of sales events, visual set-ups, shop installations, promotions, and special events.
• Planned, installed and maintained all visual setups and signing per the corporate seasonal events, bimonthly directives, and division directives to best compliment the architecture and department layout of the store.
• Maintained visual merchandising storage area and room to prevent any damage or destruction of existing visual collateral or tools. Ordered and installed vendor lettering, graphics and plaques by demand centre as needed.
• Chose merchandise and accessories to be presented on mannequins and bust forms throughout the store to complement fashion trends.
• Worked with the store manager, ASM's and sales associates to see the daily standards are executed and maintained.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS 

MBA (Sales and Marketing) | Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta | 2016

Bachelor’s of Business Administration (Marketing) | Xavier Institute of Business Management, Mumbai | 2013

Technical Skills:  Microsoft Office, Access, Visual Studio, SDLC, Javascript, HTML and CSS

PERSONAL DOSSIER

Languages Known : English & Hindi 

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