Siddharth Kumar, Merchandiser

Siddharth Kumar

Merchandiser

Wadi.com

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, Leadership and Management
Experience
14 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 0 Months

Merchandiser at Wadi.com
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since August 2017

Assisting in merchandise Sales plans for the category based on insight gained from merchandise mix, historical trends and future outlook projected by the buyers and marketing for both

Manager at Koovs.com
  • India - Delhi
  • July 2016 to April 2017

Online Visual Merchandising Planning Team
Role and Responsibilities:

•Implementing methods of Merchandise tagging with Buying plan and Marketing Stakeholders.
•Achieving Conversion and CTR through web merchandise implementation with coordination of other Stakeholders.
•Technology Integration for merchandising and cost decision approval.
•Planning and development of merchandising logic change on TAGs, HTML and Brand pages.
•Promo Planning development throughout the Category, Brand, Planning, Digital, Marketing, and technology.
•Planning story and Edit visibility according to Season launch EOSS with London team.
•Tracking brand activities and merchandising to gather report and WOW growth.
•Finalizing journey of Homepage and Landing page property visibility basis creative calendar provided by London Team including banner executions,
•Monitoring using

Asst. Manager at SNAPDEAL
  • India - Delhi
  • November 2014 to June 2016

Managing / Planning Merchandising of the fashion category and responsible for the category sales.
•Partner management - Brands, Key Accounts, and Suppliers.
•Advising on, drafting and enforcing sales policies and processes.
•Account planning and performance monitoring.
•Coordination with the Studio & Agencies for the better photoshoots & design for various promotions.
•Responsible for timely achievement & implementation of product launches etc.
•Sales forecasting and developing pricing strategies.
•Business planning based on demands, new launches, seasonality etc.
•Brand Development & Promotion
•Planning & organizing brand development and promotion activities by developing new strategies for brands.
•Creating & executing various communication tools for Branding & Promotions for various products.
•Identifying target audiences, planning, marketing activities to achieve brand awareness, estimations & executing promotions to ensure product visibility to enhance brand image & driving volumes.
•Trend Analysis & Fashion Forecasting.
Achievements:
•Diwali Bumper Sale, Billion Day, Dil ki Deal - Aamir Khan etc.

Operations at Jabong
  • India - Delhi
  • January 2012 to October 2014

• Responsible for the whole look and display of merchandise for the given categories on jabong website.
• To bring the best possible image display by styling and photography development.
• Displaying best possible angles according to the structure and dimension of the product.
• To maintain the consistency and overall look of the website.
• To co-ordinate with the buyers for purchased product communication.
• Photo shoots production planning and teaching production process alignment surety.
• Creating Guidelines and training photographers and studio managers to follow and adhere the visual aspects of product display on website
• Adhering and improvising guidelines to suit different types and styles of merchandise.
• Planning outside location shoots as bridge between products and shoot, by understanding the product and design.
• Conceptualizing location and critical parts of display for outdoor and indoor shoots.
• Source products based on the theme or the concept of the shoot.
• Purchasing & maintain props for shoot.
• To manage photographers, content writers and graphic designers to ensure efficient work output.
• To maintain reports to measure efficiency of each area.
• Merchandise product categories making creative use of what is currently online. Review each category once a week (more regularly on popular pages) with the outcome of refreshing gaps or completely restyling the page where necessary

Visual Merchandiser at Future Group (Big Bazaar)
  • India - Kolkata
  • November 2010 to October 2011

Implementing Promotional Activities.
• Thematic Window setups and Fashion display areas.
• Prepare merchandise presentation plan for Fashion sections.
• Planning for the scale of display on the basis of Dockets.
• Monitoring & Updating the Signage & communication to the Store people.
• Keeping a checklist of merchandise Fixtures, mannequins’ position, and VM fixtures.
• Budgeting VM Expenses.

Store Assistant at Arrow
  • India - Delhi
  • November 2008 to September 2009

looking after daily sales of store and taking care of daily and monthly cash and inventory

Education

Diploma, Leadership and Management
  • at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
  • February 2018

Certifies Course on Managerial Leadership and team effectiveness.

Bachelor's degree, FASHION Design
  • at International Institute of Fashion Design
  • September 2007

B.Sc In Fashion Design with major in Fashion Management.

Specialties & Skills

Category Management
Operation
Online Merchandising
Web Merchandising
Microsoft Excel
CONVERSION
FASHION
IMAGING
MARKETING
MERCHANDISING
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
WEB SITE PRODUCTION

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Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Punjabi
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Spanish
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Training and Certifications

Managerial Leadership and team Effectiveness (Training)
Training Institute:
Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta
Date Attended:
February 2018
Duration:
45 hours

Hobbies

  • Photography
    I have worked in big E-commerce companies to achieve target and quality output in photography