• Establish and govern PUMA’s apparel IE knowledge base, covering SMV via GSD and motion-code methodologies, material consumption validation and marker efficiency. Partner with IT and T1 suppliers to build and maintain standardized data and motion-code libraries, define PUMA-specific standards and ensure consistent and accurate application of the costing framework across the supplier base Motion code Library: Establish and maintain a motion code library for PUMA
• Consumption/CAD Marker: Establish and execute supplier consumption audits for cost adherence. Work with internal and external teams to improve material consumption values for PUMA
• SMV Data Validation: Establish and implement a process for SMV data validation at T1 base. Perform regular audits for data checks and verification   
• Marker efficiency improvement: Assess marker efficiencies, fabric width usage, grain line, shrinkage, defects, nap direction, print direction, size ration, pattern placement and cutting feasibility to improve marker efficiency and lower wastage guidelines for suppliers 
• Pattern area improvement: Support in aligning size offering to lower required fabric used in garment overall 
• Implementation support: Support ongoing costing initiative including adaptation and integration of tools (e.g., SMV validation via AI tool) 
• Select audits: Evaluate full garment production process at factories, including fabric inspection, fabric relaxation, marker making, cutting, numbering, bundling, sewing, inline inspection, finishing, pressing, packing and final quality inspection, identify risks related to poor material flow, bottlenecks etc.
• Strategic Projects: Partake in strategic projects such as ONE COSTING and input and represent that perspective of technical costing team. Support the creation and implementation in relevant IT tools

Position Summary: The Retail HR role partners closely with retail operations to support people-related initiatives across stores. The role focuses on driving hiring, employee engagement, capability development, and compliance while building a strong connect with store teams and supporting the overall employee experience in the region.

• Manage the end-to-end employee lifecycle for retail employees including recruitment, onboarding, engagement initiatives, training and development, and exit interviews.

• Drive hiring across retail stores by identifying and leveraging both internal and external recruitment sources to ensure timely closure of open positions.

• Partner with retail operations stakeholders and store managers to understand manpower requirements and support people-related decisions across stores.

• Assess behavioural and capability development needs of store employees and coordinate relevant training programs with internal or external trainers.

• Plan and manage the monthly employee engagement calendar across stores to strengthen employee connect and morale.

• Coordinate and ensure timely and accurate submission of payroll inputs for retail employees.

• Conduct regular store visits to interact with employees, gather feedback, understand on-ground challenges, and support resolution of employee concerns.

• Track attrition trends and employee feedback across stores and work with business leaders to drive retention and employee experience initiatives.

• Ensure effective implementation of company policies across stores and monitor compliance with statutory requirements, including maintenance of statutory registers and documentation.

• Actively participate in various company forums and people initiatives within the organization.

• MBA / PGDM students specializing in HR or related fields.

• 4+ years of HR experience, preferably in retail, hospitality, or other customer-facing industries.

• Prior experience in managing store hiring, employee engagement, and HR operations will be an advantage.

• Good communication and coordination skills.

• Working knowledge of MS Excel and PowerPoint.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and work with multiple stakeholders.

•Lead and develop the Production Operations team

•Create and manage production schedules and resource planning

•Ensure timely product availability and studio readiness for all productions

•Oversee sample management, warehouse operations, and studio logistics

•Monitor production progress, team capacity, and operational performance

•Identify risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities for process improvement

•Drive operational efficiency through standardized workflows, automation, and AI-supported planning where applicable

•Coordinate priorities and timelines across Creative, Styling, Photography, Post-Production, and business stakeholders

•Ensure accurate reporting, tracking, and documentation of production activities

•Maintain a safe, organized, and efficient production environment

•5+ years of experience in production planning, studio operations, or project coordination

•Strong leadership and people management skills

•Excellent organizational and planning abilities

•Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

•Strong problem-solving and stakeholder management skills

•Experience with production planning, reporting, and resource management

•Data-driven and process-oriented mindset

•Understanding of automation and AI-supported planning tools is a plus

•Own and continuously evolve the overall look & feel of eCommerce on-model and pack shot productions

•Ensure brand consistency and adherence to PUMA's visual and style guidelines

•Lead, mentor, and develop Art Directors and on-set teams

•Act as the final decision-maker for creative quality and image selection

•Serve as the key interface between the local studio and the Global Photography Team

•Foster a positive, collaborative, and high-performing team culture on set

•Maintain and further develop style guides, visual standards, and creative documentation

•Proactively drive innovation and enhancements to PUMA's visual language, including the use of AI-supported creative workflows

•Collaborate closely with Styling, Photography, Post-Production, and cross-functional stakeholders

•Ensure efficient, high-quality production standards across all content creation activities

•8+ years of experience in fashion or eCommerce art direction

•Strong leadership and mentoring skills

•Expertise in photography, styling, and visual storytelling

•Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)

•Understanding of AI tools and their application within eCom related workflows

•Experience working with global brand and style guidelines

•Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

•Ability to build positive, motivated, and collaborative teams

Establish and govern PUMA’s apparel IE knowledge base, covering SMV via GSD and motion-code methodologies, material consumption validation and marker efficiency. Partner with IT and T1 suppliers to build and maintain standardized data and motion-code libraries, define PUMA-specific standards and ensure consistent and accurate application of the costing framework across the supplier base

Task 1:

Motion code Library
Establish and maintain a motion code library for PUMA.

Task 2:

CONSUMPTION/CAD MARKER
Establish and execute supplier consumption audits for cost adherence. Work with internal and external teams to improve material consumption values for PUMA.

Task 3:

SMV DATA VALIDATION
Establish and implement a process for SMV data validation at T1 base. Perform regular audits for data checks and verification.   
1. Marker efficiency improvement
Assess marker efficiencies, fabric width usage, grain line, shrinkage, defects, nap direction, print direction, size ration, pattern placement and cutting feasibility to improve marker efficiency and lower wastage guidelines for suppliers
2. Pattern area improvement
Support in aligning size offering to lower required fabric used in garment overall
3. Implementation support
Support ongoing costing initiative including adaptation and integration of tools (e.g., SMV validation via AI tool)
4. Select audits
Evaluate full garment production process at factories, including fabric inspection, fabric relaxation, marker making, cutting, numbering, bundling, sewing, inline inspection, finishing, pressing, packing and final quality inspection, identify risks related to poor material flow, bottlenecks etc.

Task 4:

STRATEGIC PROJECTS

Partake in strategic projects such as ONE COSTING and input and represent that perspective of technical costing team. Support the creation and implementation in relevant IT tools.

• Industrial engineering degree or equivalent
• GSD / GST certified or similar
• In-depth experience with different CAD programs
• Standard IT Tools (MS Office)
• Strong experience (5+ years) in garment manufacturing, supplier quality, production engineering or factory process control
• Work experience and travel and work permit in Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Bangladesh
• Fluent English
• Source Country relevant Languages an advantage
• Travel time: 50%

Reporting to: Assistant Manager Merchandising Store Allocation SIS

Position Summary: Manage Merchandising and store allocation for FP Stores.

Key Objectives:

• Own in‑season trading and performance management, ensuring the right stock is available at the right place and right time to maximize sales achievement.

• Partner closely with Visual Merchandising (VM) and Retail Operations to ensure seamless execution of seasonal rollouts in line with commercial plans.

• Ensure timely launch of new‑season merchandise, with accurate and on‑schedule distribution to all designated doors as per the allocation plan.

• Execute precise replenishment strategies and maintain healthy SKU‑level inventory to minimize lost sales and improve stock efficiency.

• Manage RTVs to warehouse and inter‑store stock consolidation to reduce slow‑moving inventory, optimize stock turns, and improve store‑level assortment.

• Collaborate with the Buying team to ensure purchases are placed in the right stores / price pockets based on demand forecasting and strategic inputs

• Drive weekly and monthly performance reporting, delivering actionable insights and presenting results in sales reviews to enable target achievement.

• Continuously refine allocation, replenishment, and system/tool inputs to improve efficiency and move toward an ideal SKU‑level inventory state.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Net Sales Achievement

• Gross Profit :Delivered vs Plan

• Sell Through Achievement

• Markdown :As per Budget

• Optimal Stock Cover

Organizational Relationships:

Internal

• Operations

• Sales

• Buying

• Planning

• Warehouse

External

• Franchise Partners

Eligibility criteria and Functional Competencies Required:

• PG from renowned Fashion Institute or Engineering from Tier 1 college

• 1-3 years of experience

• Well versed in Microsoft Excel

• Knowledge of other analytical tools will be useful

• Ability to multitask and prioritize work based on business importance

• Willingness to learn new technology/tools as required by business

• Prior knowledge of Retail/ecommerce industry would be preferable

• Great communication and stakeholder management skill

• Product creation system & file maintenance
• Market & data analysis

• Task Overview:

• Maintain & update LINELIST (Create & attribute maintenance)
• Maintain & update PAC (Create & attribute maintenance)
• Maintain & update Masterfile / GTM files (Design CADs, trackers attributes maintenance & delivery info, PO qty, ST qty)
• Maintain & update PISA (design system - CAD upload and update)
• Consolidate & upload Global inf download to RCC SharePoint   (Hangtag, naming logic, sustainability … )
• Support on regular trend research
• Concept / product legal name check and follow up              
• Sample coordination (KA & Marketing & Inline needs, custom clearance, shipment)
• Fitting Comments file preparation (Costing & Margin overview, PLM & DES fitting notes …)
• Quarterly RCC Magazine (RCC China quarterly update Merch pages, Market & Consumer Trends)
• Pricing ladder (Puma & Competitors)
• Competitor research online & offline
• SI & ST analysis (Numbers update, draw conclusion on colors, fits, materials)
• RCC CN Costing Archive
• Team coordination and support for department head

• Bachelor degree or above
• Interested in the sportwear industry
• Passionate about fashion trends
• Good sensitivity on data and market analysis
• High proficiency in both written and spoken English
• Willing to learn
• Able to work 3-5 days a week, full-time internship will be a plus

The Director of Engineering - DTC Platform Engineering leads the organisation responsible for the shared engineering platforms, cloud foundations, integration capabilities, quality and performance engineering services, and developer tooling that enable DTC product teams to build and deliver secure, scalable and reliable software. This is a foundational leadership role: every product team, every consumer-facing capability, and every commerce transaction depends on the platforms, pipelines, and practices this organisation owns and operates.

You will lead a cross-functional organisation spanning DevOps & CI/CD, Application Security, Test Automation, Enterprise Integrations, Performance Engineering, and Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure. You will work with the SRE & Operations team to define observability standards, SLO enablement, resilience requirements and production-readiness controls. Your remit is to ensure our engineering platform accelerates product delivery velocity without sacrificing quality or resilience - and that our cloud infrastructure is secure, cost-efficient, and built to scale. This role is a key engineering partner to all three product engineering organisations: Consumer Experience, Consumer Intelligence & Engagement, and Core Commerce Platform.

Key Responsibilities & Scope of Ownership:

• DevOps & CI/CD - build, test, and deployment pipelines, developer tooling, GitOps workflows and release engineering.

• Performance Engineering - load testing, performance profiling, capacity planning, and Core Web Vitals governance.

• Quality Engineering & Test Automation - Enterprise quality strategy, automated testing frameworks, release quality governance, test platforms, and engineering quality standards.

• Integration Architecture & Platform Services - API management, integration architecture, event-driven platforms, shared services, and platform governance.

• Cloud Architecture - infrastructure design, cloud provisioning, Kubernetes platform, networking, security, and cost optimisation.

• Security & Compliance Engineering - Infrastructure security, secrets management, vulnerability management, data protection and security assurance.

Platform Vision & Engineering Strategy

• Define and execute the multi-year Platform Engineering strategy by establishing the technology vision for cloud infrastructure, developer experience, quality engineering, enterprise integrations and automation across the DTC estate.

• Build a platform that acts as a strategic enabler for product engineering teams: reducing toil, accelerating delivery cycles, and raising the quality and reliability bar across all consumer-facing systems.

• Own the platform engineering roadmap and promote adoption of platform capabilities.

• Drive the adoption of platform engineering as a product discipline - treating internal engineering teams as customers and building self-service infrastructure and tooling accordingly.

DevOps & CI/CD

• Increase adoption of CI/CD capabilities across all product engineering organisations - enabling fast, safe, and automated delivery from code commit to production.

• Govern branching strategies, environment topology (dev, staging, UAT, prod), and deployment runbooks across all product teams.

• GitOps-based deployment workflows, progressive delivery patterns (canary releases, blue-green deployments, feature flags), and trunk-based development practices.

• Drive developer experience (DevEx) improvements - fast build times, reliable pipelines, self-service environment provisioning, and clear developer documentation.

• Establish release governance processes that balance deployment speed with change risk management, particularly for high-impact commerce events such as sale periods and product launches.

Quality Engineering & Test Automation

• Define and execute Quality Engineering strategy across all DTC platforms, embedding quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Define and evolve shared test automation frameworks covering functional, regression, API, integration, and end-to-end testing.

• Establish quality standards, metrics, and governance to improve release confidence and reduce production defects.

• Enable engineering teams through reusable testing capabilities, tooling, and quality engineering best practices.

Performance Engineering

• Define and execute the Performance Engineering strategy, ensuring applications and platforms meet scalability, reliability, and user experience objectives.

• Establish performance standards, capacity planning practices, and non-functional requirements across all product domains.

• Lead performance optimization initiatives across applications, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and consumer experiences.

• Govern performance KPIs, Core Web Vitals, and platform readiness for major business events and traffic peaks.

Security & Compliance Engineering

• Own the security engineering strategy across cloud infrastructure, platform services, and software delivery pipelines.

• Drive DevSecOps adoption through automated security controls, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement.

• Implement and govern platform controls for identity, secrets management, cloud security posture and compliance automation in collaboration with the central infrastructure team.

• Partner with enterprise security teams to ensure adherence to security compliance requirements.

• Foster a culture of secure-by-design engineering across all product and platform teams.

Integration Architecture & Engineering

• Own the integration platform vision & strategy, capability roadmap, priorities & adoption across the DTC ecosystem.

• Lead adoption of API-first and event-driven platform capabilities that accelerate delivery and reduce integration complexity.

• Establish reusable integration frameworks, shared services, and platform governance to drive consistency and operational excellence.

• Partner with Product Engineering, Data, and Architecture teams to ensure integration capabilities support current and future business needs.

AI Engineering Platforms & Automation

• Define and evolve the strategy for AI-enabled engineering platforms, capabilities and practices across the DTC engineering organisation.

• Establish reusable platform capabilities, standards and guardrails that enable teams to safely adopt AI technologies and accelerate delivery.

• Drive the adoption of AI-assisted and automated engineering practices across the software development lifecycle, improving developer productivity, quality and operational efficiency.

• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, platform capabilities and engineering practices, translating them into scalable and practical solutions that create business and engineering value.

• Ensure AI-enabled capabilities are implemented with appropriate controls for security, compliance, observability, cost management and responsible use.

Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a multi-disciplinary team of DevOps engineers, QA automation engineers, performance engineers, cloud architects, security engineers.

• Operate as a trusted platform partner to the Consumer Experience, Consumer Intelligence & Engagement, and Core Commerce Platform engineering directors - understanding their needs and proactively improving the platform beneath them.

• Build strong relationships with Security, Finance (FinOps), and Infrastructure procurement stakeholders.

• Represent platform engineering in architecture review boards, incident reviews, and engineering leadership forums.

• 15+ years of engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a senior engineering leadership role owning platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering organisations.
• Proven ability to define platform architecture strategy, technology standards, infrastructure modernisation roadmaps, and engineering guardrails that support scalability, resilience, and security.
• Experience building internal developer platforms, self-service engineering capabilities, and software delivery practices that improve developer productivity, reliability, governance, and time-to-market.
• Experience in Cloud Native Infrastructure -  Kubernetes, compute & runtime services, Cloud CDN, IAM, VPC, and monitoring & observability tooling. GCP experience preferred.
• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines at scale - GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, ArgoCD, Spinnaker, or equivalent.
• Experience in Kubernetes platform engineering - cluster operations, Helm, service mesh, and workload autoscaling.
• Demonstrable test automation leadership - experience defining quality engineering strategy and building shared test automation frameworks (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, RestAssured, k6, or equivalent).
• Performance engineering expertise - load testing tools (k6, Gatling, JMeter), APM platforms (Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace), and front-end performance profiling.
• Infrastructure-as-code proficiency - Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent; GitOps workflows with ArgoCD or Flux.
• Understanding of modern security engineering practices, including secrets management, application security (SAST/DAST), cloud security posture management, vulnerability management, data protection, and secure software delivery.
• Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

Leadership Expectations:

At PUMA, Directors are expected to operate as enterprise leaders who shape strategy, build capability, and create an environment where teams can deliver exceptional outcomes at speed and scale. Successful leaders combine commercial acumen, technical excellence, and people leadership while embodying the mindset and behaviours that define PUMA's culture.

Strategic Thinking & Vision

• Translate ambitious business goals into clear, executable technology strategies and roadmaps.
• Demonstrate the courage to challenge conventional thinking and advocate for innovative solutions that create long-term value.
• Operate effectively in ambiguity, providing clarity, direction, and confidence for teams and stakeholders.
• Balance immediate business priorities with long-term scalability, sustainability, and consumer impact.

Ownership & Accountability

• Take end-to-end ownership of outcomes, driving execution with determination and a relentless focus on results.
• Set high standards for quality, reliability, and operational excellence while fostering a culture of accountability.
• Navigate setbacks and changing priorities with resilience, maintaining momentum through complexity and uncertainty.
• Make difficult decisions when required and stand behind them with conviction and integrity.

People & Team Leadership

• Build, develop, and retain diverse, high-performing teams capable of delivering at scale.
• Foster an environment of trust, inclusion, collaboration, and mutual respect where individuals can thrive.
• Create opportunities for learning, growth, and continuous development while empowering teams with autonomy and accountability.
• Celebrate successes, recognise contributions, and cultivate a culture where high performance and enjoyment go hand in hand.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Build strong partnerships across Product, Design, Data, Marketing, Operations, and Business teams to achieve shared outcomes.
• Influence effectively across all levels of the organisation through credibility, transparency, and strong communication.
• Demonstrate confidence in decision-making while remaining open to challenge, feedback, and diverse perspectives.
• Lead with a team-first mindset, breaking down silos and enabling collaboration across functions and geographies.

Innovation & Continuous Learning

• Champion modern engineering practices, AI-native ways of working, and a culture of experimentation.
• Encourage curiosity, learning, and thoughtful risk-taking to unlock new opportunities for consumers and the business.
• Create space for innovation while maintaining a disciplined approach to execution and delivery.
• Continuously raise the bar on engineering excellence, operational maturity, and consumer experience.

Commercial & Consumer Mindset

• Understand the connection between technology decisions, consumer experience, and business performance.
• Make decisions that balance innovation, speed, quality, and commercial impact.
• Maintain a strong consumer-first perspective, ensuring technology investments create meaningful value for consumers.
• Demonstrate sound judgment and confidence when translating business priorities into engineering outcomes.

Building PUMA's Future

• Act as a visible culture builder and role model as PUMA continues to scale its DTC Engineering organisation.
• Embrace the opportunity to build teams, capabilities, and ways of working from the ground up.
• Lead with energy, optimism, and purpose, inspiring others to contribute to a shared vision and ambitious goals.
• Foster an environment where bold thinking, determination, collaboration, and enjoyment are all essential ingredients of success.

About the Organisation & Role:

You will be part of the Core Commerce Platform organisation responsible for delivering the omnichannel commerce capabilities that power the purchase journey, inventory availability, delivery promise, order processing & fulfilment and post-purchase experiences across channels. The organisation plays a critical role in ensuring products are available to buy, orders can be fulfilled reliably, and commitments made to consumers are delivered consistently. Through a portfolio of commerce platform capabilities, the organisation enables seamless omnichannel experiences while supporting efficient, scalable, and resilient commerce operations across the global digital ecosystem.

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will own quality strategy, test automation and test execution for omni-channel commerce capabilities. You will work closely with Software Engineers, Tech Leads, Product Owners and Data Engineering teams to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle. Your focus will be building scalable automation, validating AI powered Omni-Channel Experience & Fulfilment Quality, improving engineering quality and enabling fast, reliable releases.

What you will do:

• Define and drive quality strategy & standards for Order Management and Omnichannel Fulfillment capabilities, ensuring reliability, scalability, and business readiness across the order lifecycle.
• Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks covering APIs, integrations, contract, event-driven workflows, and end-to-end commerce scenarios.
• Ensure inventory accuracy, order orchestration, fulfillment execution, and SLA adherence through robust automated and exploratory testing practices.
• Embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle by partnering closely with Software Engineers, Tech Leads, Product Owners and Data Engineering teams.
• Develop and maintain test data management capabilities supporting complex order, inventory, sourcing, fulfillment, and returns scenarios.
• Integrate quality engineering practices into CI/CD pipelines with automated quality gates, release validation, regression testing, and deployment readiness assessments.
• Define quality metrics, test coverage goals and continuous improvement initiatives across the team.
• Coach engineers on test automation, quality practices and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of Quality Engineering, Software Testing, and Test Automation experience, with a strong track record of delivering quality for Order Management, Inventory, Fulfillment, and Omnichannel Commerce platforms.
• Strong proficiency with automation technologies such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Postman, or equivalent testing frameworks.
• Expertise in order lifecycle validation, covering order capture, sourcing, fulfillment, shipment, returns, exchanges, and post-purchase experiences.
• Strong expertise in API Testing, Contract Testing, and Integration Testing across distributed microservices architectures.
• Hands-on experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, implementing quality gates, automated release validation, and deployment verification processes.
• Strong understanding of modern Quality Engineering practices including shift-left testing, continuous testing, quality engineering metrics, and release readiness assessment.
• Experience in cross-browser testing and tooling (BrowserStack or equivalent) will be an advantage.
• Experience with test-data management.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted test generation, intelligent test maintenance, intelligent regression testing, and LLM-assisted Quality Engineering practices to improve coverage and efficiency.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with experience partnering closely with Product Owners, Architects, Engineers, Project Managers to influence engineering quality across multiple teams
• Experience mentoring Quality Engineers, driving automation adoption, and establishing engineering excellence and continuous improvement practices across teams.

About the Organisation & Role:

You will be part of the Core Commerce Platform organisation responsible for delivering the omnichannel commerce capabilities that power the purchase journey, inventory availability, delivery promise, order processing & fulfilment and post-purchase experiences across channels. The organisation plays a critical role in ensuring products are available to buy, orders can be fulfilled reliably, and commitments made to consumers are delivered consistently. Through a portfolio of commerce platform capabilities, the organisation enables seamless omnichannel experiences while supporting efficient, scalable, and resilient commerce operations across the global digital ecosystem.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services that power Inventory, Promise & Order Fulfilment capabilities. You will work closely with Tech Leads, Product Owners, and Data Engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and low-latency services. You will actively contribute to design decisions, code reviews and mentor junior engineers in the team.

What you will do:

• Design and operate secure, observable and resilient Java/Spring Boot services and low-latency APIs for inventory availability and order promising with performance suitable for peak and concurrent demand

• Implement robust concurrency-control and consistency patterns to prevent overselling when multiple orders compete for limited inventory.

• Build event-driven inventory processing using Kafka or similar messaging technologies to handle receipts, adjustments, reservations, releases, cancellations, and fulfilment updates in near real time.

• Integrate inventory and promising services with OMS, commerce, WMS, ERP, store, and fulfilment platforms to provide consistent availability across the order lifecycle.

• Independently own complex services or components from technical design through production.

• Write clean, tested and maintainable code, participate in peer reviews, and maintain relevant technical documentation.

• Optimize performance, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency through automation and proactive improvements. 

• Support production services through monitoring, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis contributing to reliability improvements.

• Lead component-level design, document trade-offs and contribute recommendations to team-level architecture decisions.

• Mentor junior engineers, perform code reviews and help establish engineering standards and best practices.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of building and operating scalable, high-availability, consumer-facing platforms.

• Strong hands-on software engineering experience with Java, Spring Boot, and modern microservices architectures, building scalable, resilient, and production-grade services.

• Strong understanding of design patterns, data structures and algorithms, with practical experience applying them to real-world use cases.

• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms for event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, and enterprise-scale system integrations.

• Deep understanding of caching strategies and hands-on experience with Redis or equivalent technologies.

• Strong understanding of concurrency, consistency, and transactional integrity patterns required to prevent overselling in distributed commerce environments.

• Experience implementing event-driven architectures and designing resilient solutions that maintain accuracy under peak trading and high-volume conditions.

• Experience designing graceful degradation and fallback mechanisms that ensure continuity of commerce operations during downstream system disruptions.

• Strong experience with observability and operational excellence practices, including monitoring, distributed tracing and alerting.

• Understanding of inventory management concepts, order promising and delivery estimation models, including inventory location, fulfilment capacity, carrier constraints, and service-level commitments is highly desirable.

• Experience configuring, customizing, and extending OMS platform capabilities to support complex business requirements and omnichannel commerce use cases is preferred.

• Hands-on experience integrating or configuring Fluent Commerce or a comparable OMS platform such as IBM Sterling OMS, Manhattan Associates, Kibo, Salesforce OMS, or similar technologies will be an advantage.

• Experience using coding agents, LLMs or AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software delivery and developer productivity.

• The role will be mainly responsible for Puma China merchandising work of Running and Training apparel.
• The individual will be responsible for driving the merchandising strategy and execution for Running and training apparel.
• The individual will work closely with cross-functional teams such as global PLM, GTM, commercial, RCC and marketing to develop and execute seasonal product assortments that are aligned with the company's overall business objectives.
• This role requires excellent strategic thinking, including the ability to identify long-term opportunities, risks, and threats for the business, and come up with turn-around (short term and long term) plans to address them.
• The individual should have strong influential capability to effectively communicate vision, strategy and objectives across the organization.
• Has a passion for sports, running and hybrid training (HYROX) preferred.

Business planning

• Develop and execute merchandising strategy for assigned categories to achieve company goals incl. revenue and gross margin etc.
• Identify key initiatives for the assigned categories (incl key growth drivers, resources etc)

Merchandising management

• Oversee category business cycle from range building, forecast, pricing, sample, sell-in and order fulfillment as well as sell-thru monitoring
• Build product range that meets market needs based on consumer insights, trend, competitor’s strategy and sell out performance
• Build strong connection with global PLM & GTM team to influence overall creation and GTM plan to land in the best way for China market
• Identify local creation opportunities and work with RCC team for local creations
• Work closely with commercial team to ensure consumer and channel needs are fulfilled and aligned from a financial perspective
• Collaborate with marketing team to plan holistic GTM journey to drive consumer engagement as well as end sales

 System and process

• Implement efficient process for assigned categories in terms of x-functional communication
• Develop competitor’s intelligence process to elevate x-function team’s awareness on competitor’s product launches and strategy updates.