Ananya Vij

Fashion stylist and learning professional with experience across luxury retail, styling, content creation, and team training. Strong understanding of brand positioning, customer experience, and styling-led selling. Proven ability to drive performance through effective communication, structured training, and on-floor coaching. Detail-oriented, collaborative, and creatively inclined, with a background in graphic design and trend forecasting. Passionate about graphic designing and also a singer.

Learning And Development-Trainer - NewMe

(2025-12)

• Designed and delivered structured training programs for retail and styling teams, focusing on brand values, product knowledge, and customer experience standards.
• Conducted onboarding and induction sessions for new joiners to ensure role clarity, process alignment, and smooth integration into store operations.
• Trained teams on sales techniques, styling fundamentals, and effective customer engagement to support conversion and in-store performance.
• Coordinated with store leadership to identify skill gaps and customize training modules based on operational needs.
• Maintained training records, attendance, and post-training reports to monitor learning outcomes.

Fashion stylist/advisor concierge - ABFRL-The Collective

(2024-06 - 2025-11)

• Researched fabrics, materials, textures and colours to create mood boards for upcoming projects.
• coordinated fittings of garments, shoes and accessories.
• compiled trend reports highlighting key looks from different seasons collections.
• Created content for the brand that included looks to lifestyle, lookbooks, social media content, product styling. Dealt with customer grievances and provided timely solutions.

Fashion associate - ABFRL-The Collective

(2023-06 - 2024-06)

• Maintained understanding of current inventory, merchandising in-store placement to inform sales strategy.
• recommended, selected and located merchandise for shoppers, engaging politely to establish product needs and wants.
• employeed strong sales and communication techniques to facilitate increase in sales.
• Actively working with L&D team to build a strong learning base for the employees

Trend forecasting intern - AJIO- Reliance retail

(2021-12 - 2022-03)

• Reviewed design specifications, quality assurance plans and demonstration script for 250 options for AW21 collection of footwear.
• follow up regarding timely inwards of SS22 for both domestic and imported merchandise.
• compiled data, completed research, updated spreadsheets and produced timely reports

Graphic design intern - Mind & Mom

(2021-07 - 2021-08)

• Created graphic designs for all the social media platforms.
• created banners for upcoming events and interviews.

Merchandising intern - Om Traders Agra

(2022-06 - 2022-07)

• Maintained documents for all purchases.
• searched for hard to find items and found high-quality, reliable vendors.

B.des - Footwear marketing and merchandising - FDDI- Chandigarh (2023-06)

Certification - Luxury brand management - University of London (2020-09)

12th - Commerce with painting - DPS Agra (2019-06)

10th - DPS Agra (2017-06)