Your Mission
- Support the Business Unit and Creative Director to drive for market relevant design strategies and help to bring awareness to the design team of the bigger design organization
- Lend with a considered, constructive product voice between Brand, Business Unit external Co-lab partners
- Reinforce and strengthen the brand position and help to generate consumer demand
- Identify opportunities for design support in order to improve business processes enhance customer/consumer intimacy
- Ensure that design activities leverage learning across the PUMA organization
- Work as a partner with Product Line Management to develop unique and relevant product stories and collection plans
- Develop a team approach to create unique and market relevant Footwear Designs that address consumer, retailer and company goals on a seasonal timeline
- Provide market research and design trend analysis supporting theme and design directions
- Lead in creation and execution of innovative product designs
- Take over responsibility for assigned projects in coordination with the creative
- Director and deliver results in line with PUMA's development calendar
- Drive a close cooperation with designers from other product area (Apparel & Accessories) to ensure strong, aligned, 360 design concepts
- Present concepts/sketches/designs to the Business Unit and Management
- Manage, support, motivate, coordinate and develop the assigned team including yearly performance appraisal process.
