Retail Management / Operations
Senior Executive, Retail Merchandising
Selangor, Malaysia
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Your Talent
Education: Bachelor's degree in business management or equivalent studied
Professional: Minimum 3 years' experience in retail environment
IT Skills: Strong computer skills including MS Excel, Word, Power Point
Language Skills: Good English written/verbal skills required (PUMA Group language in English)
Your Mission
Together with the Manager, Retail Merchandising, this role manages in-season trading by optimizing inventory, making key trading decisions, and keeping stakeholders informed. Responsibilities include ensuring timely stock rollouts, executing replenishments, and consolidating inventory to reduce slow-moving merchandise. It also involves collaborating with the country logistics team for product planning, delivery forecasts, and shipment tracking. Additionally, the role supports weekly and monthly allocation plans, oversees pricing and promotions, processes inventory projections, and develops strategies for clearance, EOSS events, and ad-hoc promotions to drive sell-through. Close coordination with logistics ensures timely merchandise deliveries.
Task 1: Pre-season Planning
- Review Sales, Inventory, by channel and division. Present risks and opportunities on inventory with close monitoring of stocks inbound.
- Ensure an efficient inventory flow between warehouse and store locations; transfers in and out, store vs warehouse, and that any opportunities are fulfilled. Inform changes in inventory forecasts that will directly affect KPI’s.
- Work with Visual Merchandising and Store Operation team on new launches.
- Provide appropriate top line, style level and accurate ISD reporting and analysis for Merchandising team to be able to make decision for promotions, MD, re-buy needs and stocks transfer etc.
- Review the plans for upcoming seasons against actual situation and create final store plans and stock flow for allocation.
- Responsible for price changes update in system, internal and external.
- Analyze size level performance on Gender/ BU/ class level and create sized buy plans for ordering on style level.
- Use provided allocation tool/ Excel/ SAP for weekly new allocation and replenishment to stores.
- Participate in monthly SIC meeting / Walk the stores/retail visit bi-monthly.
Task 2: Process Improvement
- In conjunction with Retail Merchandising Team, work on improving the processes and tools used.
- Ensure existing tools are compatible with country needs and systems. Highlight needs to Retail Merchandising Manager. In the absence of set templates, drive the introduction and implementation of such tools.
PUMA provides equal opportunities for all job applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Equality for all is one of the core principles at PUMA and we do not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination.
PUMA supports over 21,000 employees across 51 countries. The PUMA Group owns the brand PUMA, Cobra Golf and stichd, and is headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany.
