Ashraf Hasan Wadkar, Supervisor Visual Merchandise

Ashraf Hasan Wadkar

Supervisor Visual Merchandise

Midas Furniture

Location
Kuwait
Experience
17 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 3 Months

Supervisor Visual Merchandise at Midas Furniture
  • Egypt
  • My current job since September 2011

Designation :
Supervisor Visual Merchandise

Responsibilities & Job Profile:
• Ofering operational support across trend forecasting, mark down suggestions and maximising profit
• Bi-weekly overview with senior management
• Audits on visual display standards in stores across Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
• Ensuring aesthetic standards are met at all times
• Managing product mix
• Evolving efective solutions to increase add-on sales
• Space Management by means of Cross Merchandising
• Optimizing Sell-through rate of aging/new products
• Ensuring 100% C-SAT (Customer Satisfaction) by analysing seasonal customer purchase trends and aiding future strategies
• Training and development of Visual team
• Supporting HR in recruitment process
• Conducting team performance appraisal
• Developing efective planograms to drive trafic across all sections of the store
• Overseeing daily stock take
• Executing Photo shoots for advertising campaigns
Achievements:
• Successfully launched store setups in Jeddah, KSA and Kuwait.
• Consistently driving the Visual team to achieve targets over the past 3 years.
• Helped drive the business forward to achieve significant profitability in the Kuwaiti and Saudi market.

Visual Merchandiser at Midas Furniture
  • Egypt
  • June 2009 to September 2011

Designation : Visual Merchandiser

Responsibilities & Job Profile:
• Creating & maintain exciting and aesthetic visual displays of furniture and accessories
• Ensuring image and brand identity of company is projected and maintained
• Stimulating showroom sales to maximum efect through compelling merchandise displays
• Ensuring efective space management techniques are constantly addressed

Assistant Merchandiser at M.H.Alshaya Retail
  • Kuwait
  • August 2008 to December 2008
Assistant Merchandiser at M.H.ALSHAYA
  • United Arab Emirates
  • August 2008 to December 2008

Designation : Assistant Merchandiser

Responsibilities & Job Profile:
• Managing daily administrative tasks for senior managers
• Daily stock analysis and allocation
• Generating daily sales and stock reports
• Creating monthly Brand newsletter

Education Advisor at British Council
  • United Arab Emirates
  • June 2006 to August 2006
Senior Customer Service at ICICI One Source
  • India
  • February 2004 to August 2005

Experience

Specialties & Skills

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
FORECASTING
MANAGEMENT
ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
MERCHANDISING
PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL
SOURCE (GAME ENGINE)
CUSTOMER SERVICE

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