• A related degree or diploma with up to one years' experience.
• Experience within a footwear, clothing or apparel wholesale/retail environment.
• Working knowledge of MS Office including Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships
• Ability to multi task and be a self starter balancing product and admin
• Deadline driven with attention to detail
• Understand and be passionate about the sports and fashion environment.

Are you a recent graduate, with up to one years' experience in a retail buying environment? Are you passionate about sports and fashion? Do you want to learn and grow in a brand whose mission is to be “the Fastest Sports Brand in the World”?

PUMA is looking for a Junior Category Coordinator to join our Sales Team. In this role you will optimise relationships with key account customers, offering them a variety of relevant and on trend product, helping to grow the PUMA brand and footprint across South Africa.

• At least two years experience in a similar or related role within fashion retail.

• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office, specifically Excel and Power Point.

• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Understanding of trends and market insights

• A multitasker that finds joy in both the creative and admin side whilst being deadline driven.

This will allow you to perform in the role.

• Create and forecast seasonal product assortments leveraging market knowledge with competitive and market related pricing

• Partner with sales and marketing teams to ensure seasonal plans align with company goals and initiatives

• Present seasonal plans and product assortments to various internal and external partners.

• Analysis of product, consumer trends, pricing, and competitor information at regular intervals and utilise this knowledge to make informed decisions

• Global strategy alignment with locally relevant season product assortment

Our Merchandise Department is looking for a detail orientated, media savvy and data driven Junior Category Manager who wants to grow in our environment, and be part of the fast paced world of Sports Fashion. You will be providing the South African consumer with the hottest sport fashion trends along with the Teamsport and Motorsport partners.

You will love fashion as much as you do admin and number crunching, and you will combine these loves with your ability to network at key events and interact with customers.

If this excites you and you have had at least two years experience in a similar role then this for you, where you can focus on Teamsport and Motorsport within our Merchandise Department.

• Minimum qualification: a degree in fashion design, or a related discipline
• Experience in retail or visual merchandising.
• 2 - 3 years Visual Merchandising experience
• Proficient in SAP; Excel; Word; Power Point; Outlook and Internet
• Driver’s License essential
• Willing to travel

The Visual Merchandiser will be responsible for developing, delivering and communicating visual concepts and strategies to promote the brand, products and services in-store.

• Conducting research on current and future trends in design and lifestyle
• Liaising with internal Sales Managers and Retail Managers to discuss sales strategies
• Identify and source props, fabrics, hardware and lighting
• Maintain a budget and negotiate with suppliers for visual materials
• Work with architectural features of stores to maximise the available space
• Create visual merchandising packs to communicate visual guidelines
• Visit branches to coach in-store Visual Merchandise or Sales Teams
• Assemble or dismantle visual display on windows or in-store
• Comparison Shops [comp-shop]
• Motivate teams to complete displays to tight deadlines
• Plan for and merchandise at store openings
• Expert knowledge of the sporting, consumer goods industry, marketing and retail business

• National Senior certificate
• 3 to 4 years of managerial experience in a focused, customer service-oriented retail environment (preferably apparel/footwear) with results driven track record.
• Proven ability to exceed sales, demonstrated ability to identify, hire, train, develop and retain top talent Managers as well as teams, ability to reason through complex issues, demonstrates effective communication, ability to present information to large groups.

The Retail Store Manager will be responsible for strategically managing and promoting sales culture within a Retail Store to achieve or exceed sales, KPIs, and profitability goals to position PUMA to be the Fastest Sports Brand in the world.

• Directly responsible for ensuring the Store consistently achieves or exceeds sales, KPIs and profitability goals through the effective use of short- and long-term planning, expense control, sales and service.
• Guarantee consistently high standards of customer experience within the Store in accordance with PUMA’s Brand Values and service standards.
• Responsible for recruitment, training, development and succession of high performing, results driven Associates and Management.
• Prepare and administer timely and accurate performance appraisals for each member of the store team.
• Hold each member of the store team accountable to meeting / exceeding company expectations through weekly productivity conversations, daily coaching in the moment, performance recognition, and performance action notices as necessary.
• Spends 85% of their working time on the sales floor engaging with consumers, selling, and coaching employees.
• Responsible for ensuring training programs, both Domestic and Global (required per the role), are successfully completed to drive results within the store.
• Communicate and provide feedback to Area Manager
• Implement, manage and monitor Loss Prevention education, training and awareness programs.
• Directly responsible for execution and processing of both incoming and outgoing merchandise.
• Directly responsible for Loss Prevention and Operational compliance within store.
• Achieve or exceed all Inventory and Shrink goals; oversee and manage Physical Inventory counts.
• Participate in new store openings and/or store closings; travel may be required.
• Attend Store Manager Meetings as well as all offsite training and position related meetings as required by Area Manager; travel may be required.
• Responsible for accurately processing sales, exchange, and refund transactions at the cash desk, with proper operation of the POS system, handling forms of tender with accuracy and respect, and ensuring proper discounts are applied when applicable. Also, responsible for processing employee transactions while adhering to the Associate Discount Policy & Procedure.
• Ensure execution and maintenance of all Visual Guidelines as well as guaranteeing the visual presentation of the Store always meets or exceeds PUMA standards.
• Maintain physical condition of Store according to relevant guidelines and communicate maintenance needs in a timely manner.

Required to work non-traditional hours; weekends, evenings, holidays; overtime may be required.