ANSAR AHMAD
Marketing Leadership • Creative Direction • Fashion & Retail • E-Commerce
Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India
contact@ansar360.com
LinkedIn: ansarahmad
Executive Profile
Ansar Ahmad is a cross-functional professional whose career spans banking, telecom sales, graphic design, fashion retail, creative leadership, e-commerce, marketing, and entrepreneurship. His experience combines creative thinking with practical business execution: developing brand identities, improving catalogue workflows, coordinating campaign production, supporting retail growth, building customer-focused service models, and leading multidisciplinary teams.
His career reflects a progression from customer-facing roles and graphic design into senior creative and marketing responsibilities. At KALKI, he worked across fashion branding, visual merchandising, catalogue production, packaging, and campaign execution. His profile describes contributions to the brand's growth from one showroom to eight, involvement in more than ten celebrity campaigns, and improvements that helped products go live on the website within 48 hours. His current profile also describes marketing leadership at Riyaasat and co-founding i Tech Service Pro.
Core Value Proposition
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Creative + Commercial Thinking: Connects visual storytelling and brand identity directly with customer experience, conversion, and business goals.
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Omnichannel Mastery: Deep execution across e-commerce, social media, offline retail, print, packaging, and in-store spatial presentation.
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Execution Velocity & Workflow: Proven capability coordinating creative, content, styling, photography, design, and e-commerce teams under high turnaround SLAs (48h go-live).
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People & Partner Alignment: Extensive experience leading multidisciplinary teams of 40+, collaborating with technicians, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders.
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Customer-First Psychology: Grounded in banking KYC, telecom outbound sales, luxury retail marketing, and service entrepreneurship.
Professional Experience
Head of Marketing
Riyaasat • Fashion | E-commerce | Retail | Brand Marketing
Leads the marketing ecosystem across brand strategy, digital commerce, creative production, retail marketing, and customer acquisition. Emphasizes building a connected digital ecosystem and aligning creativity, technology, and commerce.
- Marketing Strategy & Brand: Lead brand positioning, messaging, and communication across digital, social, and physical retail touchpoints.
- E-Commerce & Digital Growth: Oversee development of brand's digital ecosystem; connect product presentation, website experience, and marketing activity to drive online sales.
- Creative Direction: Guide visual communication, content production, packaging, styling, photography, and campaign assets.
- Performance & Media: Manage performance marketing, customer acquisition, offline retail marketing, events, and media buying.
- Team Leadership: Build, guide, and mentor a multidisciplinary team of 40+ professionals.
Co-Founder
i Tech Service Pro • Remote / Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Co-founded a smartphone repair service business intended to make repair solutions more accessible, cost-effective, reliable, and convenient for urban customers.
- Venture Architecture: Identified urban market gap for dependable smartphone repairs and built the service-driven business from the ground up.
- Operations & Logistics: Developed service workflows, pain-point reduction strategies, and coordinated vendor and technician networks.
- Brand Positioning: Established a customer proposition centered on transparency, affordability, and dependability to build trust in a competitive repair sector.
Head of Creative, Visual Merchandising & Design
KALKI • Luxury Ethnic Fashion & Retail
Led creative, design, visual merchandising, catalogue production, packaging, and brand communication. Key driver in brand equity development and consistent visual experiences across all touchpoints.
- Retail Footprint Growth: Contributed directly to expansion from a single showroom to a network of eight showrooms nationwide.
- 48-Hour Catalogue Workflow: Built and optimized catalogue operations so newly shot couture products could be published online within 48 hours without compromising resolution or quality.
- 10+ Celebrity Campaigns: Oversaw concept development, creative direction, styling coordination, visual storytelling, and final campaign execution for 10+ celebrity brand campaigns.
- Visual Merchandising & Spatial Design: Translated brand requirements into showroom concepts, window displays, lighting standards, and product presentation.
- Packaging & Team Management: Directed creative, visualization, and packaging teams to ensure timely delivery and consistent luxury brand standards.
Graphics Designer
Toshiba • Mumbai Metropolitan Region
- Edited photographs, resized images, removed backgrounds, and performed detailed image retouching.
- Designed print promotional collateral: banners, posters, brochures, visiting cards, and pamphlets.
- Handled basic video editing for presentations and promotional CDs using Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator.
Customer Service Specialist
SSTL MTS India • Mumbai Metropolitan Region
- Handled outbound sales calls to introduce mobile services, recharge plans, and SIM cards.
- Responded to customer queries, addressed objections, and converted interactions toward sales targets.
Account Executive
ICICI Bank (Jun 2009 – Dec 2009) & HDFC Bank (Aug 2008 – Mar 2009)
- Assisted customers with opening savings and current accounts, verifying KYC documents, and explaining financial services.
- Coordinated with branch staff to facilitate smooth account processing and achieved monthly account acquisition targets.
Education
Formal University Education