Priscila Alves

VISUAL MERCHANDISING  A Sales Person and Visual Merchandising professional completely passionate about sales and the entire universe capable of delighting a customer. I believe that creativity and passion are contagious and that our world was made to transform shoppers into buyers.

I have a degree in Interior Design with a specialization focused on Visual Merchandising and Luxury Sales Techniques . I love working with fashion, creativity, customer service, research and the execution of ideas, always dedicating myself and being as responsible as possible with my team and my work.

Aug/2023 - Dec/2023 Sostrene Grene [London]

Visual Merchandiser 

Responsible for all visual merchandising of the store in Kingston upon Thames;

Creation of windows focused on manuals, but with total creative freedom;

Creation of paintings, creative objects and inspirational displays for clients in all departments;

Responsible for always thinking about alternatives for replacing products;

Always focused on working in the most creative way possible to delight customers;

Responsible for following all VM manuals that show us how to create the special atmosphere of the stores;

Visual merchandising training for the store team;

Maintain exceptional store conditions and visual merchandising standards.

Stock control and effective stock management;

Work plan for all the responsibilities in store;

Total attention to detail to deliver the best level of visual merchandising for customers and the company.

Oct/2021 - Mar/2022 H&M [London]

Team Leader - Jul/2022 to Now

Leadership;

▪ Visual Merchandising;

▪ Communicating goals and deadlines to team members;

▪ Assisting with the daily operation of the organisation;

▪ Assessing team performance and providing feedback to employees;

▪ Assisting with hiring and training employees;

▪ Planning workloads and delegating tasks;

▪ Creating a productive work environment for the team using gamification, trust and other appropriate strategies.

Sales Advisor - Oct/2021 to Jul/2022

Customer Service;

Suport in all departaments;

Cash desk;

Delivery;

Feb - Nov 2020 | PONTO MIX [Brazil, RJ]

Visual Merchandising

Responsible for the Visual Merchandising area;

Development of Visual Merchandising with the Purchasing Department;

Training of store teams, always working side by side with management;

Responsible for reopening of two stores, with a new layout and proposal for a new concept of visual merchandising for the company

Jul/2019 - Feb/2020 | EXPRESSO DO OCIDENTE [Brazil, RJ]

Trade Representative

Responsible for all company's offline media (e.g: outdoors, billboards);

Negotiation and contracts with advertising companies;

Routine of contact with agencies and clients.

Oct/2018 - Feb/2019 | CIA. HERING [Brazil, SP]

Assistant Manager

Responsible for VM of the store and sales team;

I was responsible for a sale made on Christmas day, where I sold a total of

10k in clothes and accessories to a single customer.

Nov/2017 - Aug/2018 | EUZÍSSIMA [Brazil, RJ]

Visual Merchandising Team Leader

Responsible for the Visual Merchandising of 7 brand stores;

Monitoring of results after modifications made to the visual merchandising;

Training of sales team;

Purchase of promotional material;

Development of the company's Visual Merchandising Manual that is used by the brand until today.

Oct/2016 - Nov/2017 | RIACHUELO [Brazil, RJ]

Visual Merchandising Team Leader

Execution of showcases and internal part of the store according to the company's standard manual;

Fashion production;

Leadership and Team Training;

Monitoring and collection of sales results;

Customer Service.

Aug/2015 - Feb/2016 | OUTER. SHOES [Brazil, RJ]

Visual Merchandising Assistant

Responsible for the Visual Merchandising area and 14 of the brand's 22

stores;

Display showcases development since March/2015;

Research of the brand's olfactory identity.

Customer enchantment research.

Control and choice of songs in the brand concept;

Responsible for organizing the inaugural decoration of the 6 stores all over

Brazil;

Participation in the organization of the company's convention events.

Participation as art director assistant of the photos in the Somos Todos

Collection - Summer 2016 and Essential Collection - Winter 2016 catalogue,

brand concept photos and chose of models.

Aug/2011 - Mar/2012 | CHECKLIST STORE [Brazil, RJ]

Salesperson

Sale of clothing and acessories;

Customer service;

Assistant in closing the cashier;

2010 - 2014 | MA (HONS) IN INTERIOR DESIGN

University Veiga de Almeida

Rio de Janeiro - BRAZIL

2014 | CERTIFICATE IN VISUAL MERCHANDISING AND SALES TECHNIQUES

Haute Future Fashion Academy

Milan - ITALY