Education: Bachelor's degree in business studies or relevant studied

Professional: Functional: Min 3 years in (buying/merchandising/business) planning, demand planning or products related roles. Industry: sports or lifestyle business.

IT Skills: Advanced level in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, basic knowledge of ERP

Language Skills: English (Business Level); Local Language (Business Level)

Assistant Manager, Category Planning SEA will be responsible for facilitating business planning tools, generating quality information and providing operational support to Category Merchandising team to achieve company’s business goal in accordance with the divisional KPI’s.

Task 1: Merchandising Planning Tools and Operational Support

• Own and manage merchandising planning tools and database, including forecasting / visual range planning tools, sample portals, product line list, price maintenance and division SharePoint.
• Plan and align Order Placement Calendar, followed by actual launch date alignment based on the actual shipment status.
• Design, improve and maintain a new business solution tool(s).
• Engage with stakeholders to provide necessary operational support, when required.                                                                                                   

Task 2: Business Analysis

• Provide quality analytics on sell-in and sell-thru, range architecture, margin projection and any critical business reports either via MS Office or PowerBI.
• Continue to build Merchandising dashboard to have a real time business update.
• Generate regular reports in a weekly, monthly and seasonal basis.  
• Research on the trends and competitions for a timely and comprehensive business planning.                                                                            

Task 3: Financial Planning

• Actively involve with Finance, Planning and Logistics teams for margin planning, budgeting, forecasting, pricing and inventory monitoring.

Task 4: Tradeshow Support

• Take ownership of tradeshow preparation, including digital catalog maintenance, showroom set ups and sample logistics

Education: Bachelor’s degree, preferably with business degree

Professional Minimum 5 years retail / merchandising experience in a fashion / branded / ecommerce environment)

IT Skills: Strong computer skills including MS Excel, Word, Power Point.

Language Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Good English written/verbal skills required (PUMA Group language is English)

Together with the Director of Buying and Merchandising and SEA Channel Manager, this role will be responsible for delivering a buy strategy per season and building the most profitable, balanced, customer focused range for the country which reflects the PUMA Brand Strategy and supports any key country strategies.
Accountable for managing the in-season trading of the business in a way where inventory is managed efficiently and required trading decisions are made and communicated to stakeholders.

Execution of seasonal buy for FPS, FOC and ECOM

• Execute seasonal buy in accordance with OTB & Budget

• Define assortment based on Country/ Channel/market/ platform/ customer profile, participate in seasonal preline/ kickoff/ tradeshow meetings to ensure product relevance.

• Ensure timely submission of seasonal orders.

• Manage the right product mix with targeted division/product category in mind.

• Ensure the buy based on analysis of the historical data/sell through.

• Define product strategy by sales channel to achieve optimal sell through results

• Deliver seasonal line to ensure gross margin, sell through performance and healthy stocks inventory.

• Present seasonal collection performance vs expectations and in analyzing consumer buying patterns, predicting future trends

• Propose Country requirement and pricing against competition.

Effective and efficient in-season rollout

• Ensure Country/ channel/ platform seasonal rollout is aligned with Global/ SEA direction.

• Be close to market to monitor direct competitors against Brand's position in terms of pricing, product, technology, Hero items.

• Ensure timely rollout of monthly launches and product assortment plan prior launch of a season.

• Touch base weekly/monthly with both Offline and ECOM OPs to reaffirm on RESEC/ OSEC & Banner and promotion roll out

Align best practices across territory

• Adhere to existing best practices and ensure it is consistently rolled out in different participating platform/s

• Ensure that functional work processes are clearly defined.

Pre-season Planning

• Together with Channel Manager and Planning Manager, review Sales, Inventory, Profit and OTB Budgets vs actual performance by channel and division and evaluate the achievability of budget targets for future seasons using the OTB tool. Present risks and opportunities to and sign off any changes with Head of Buying and Merchandising.

• Together with Planning Team to determine OTB’s for future seasons making sure it allows efficient cover of Inventory while delivering profit and minimizing End Inventory. Present to and sign off with the Head of Buying and Merchandising.

• Review store base grading by analyzing historical sales, SKU efficiency, and specific store needs as well as strategy. Work with Visual Merchandising on capacity planning to make sure the stores have the right amount of SKUs per space/concept at any point in time. Hand over the SKU targets to Merchandising to make sure the needed capacity is fulfilled and to prevent over-capacity.

• Provide appropriate top line and style level reporting and analysis for Buying team to be able to make educated buy decisions.

• Create achievable seasonal top-line plans for individual platforms and category sales and options in the Range Plan tool based on brand strategy, country strategy, history and range strategy.

• Create bottom-up plans by style including grading, start and end weeks, ROS, MD and end Inventory in the Range Plan tool based on historical analysis. Ensure plans reflect the types of items planned i.e. best seller's vs interest pieces to make sure inventory is managed effectively. Ensure these plans reflect the created top line plans.

• Present the buy plans including current trading trends, OTB for future seasons, Range Plan analysis and VLP together with Country Buying and Merchandising Team and Channel and Planning Team in Monthly and half yearly Global meetings.

• Ensure size level analysis performance on Gender/ BU/ class level and create sized buy plans for ordering on style level.

In-season Planning

• Drive weekly, monthly, quarterly and seasonal reporting and analysis and present these during weekly trading meetings. Drive the discussion together with Channel and planning Team on actions needed based on trading.

• Review weekly sales at style level and make trading decisions for promotions, MD, price changes, re-buy needs, stock transfers etc.

• Review the plans for upcoming seasons against actual situation and create final store plans and stock flow for allocation. Review allocation plans prepared by allocation team and discussed changes needed or pending issues.

• Manage markdown/ promotion/ discount budget together with Channel and Planning Team, making sure the correct flow and level of MD is applied. Make sure the exit strategy is followed thereafter MD and seasonal change-over takes place as planned.

• Together with Planning Team, manage the re-forecasting of sales, inventory, profit and OTB weekly at top line and concept level for each channel and division based on current trading using rolling up to Quarterly level for the OTB tool. Present changes, opportunities, concerns, or solutions to Head of Buying and Merchandising.

• Oversee the placement of orders and track deliveries and stock flow to Warehouse.

• Ensure an efficient inventory flow between channels and locations; transfers in and out, store vs warehouse, and that any opportunities are fulfilled. Inform channels of changes in inventory forecasts that will directly affect KPI’s.

• Manage promotion execution together with Central Buying, Planning and operation team.

Process improvement

• In conjunction with Retail Buying and Merchandising Team, work on improving the processes and tools used.

• Ensure existing tools are compatible with country needs and systems. In the absence of set templates, drive the introduction and implementation of such tools.

Strategy

• Create extensive Lessons-learnt analyses for previous seasons to be used as a basis of strategy for future seasons.

• Provide feedback and input into the Country Retail Strategy process to ensure that the strategy is market relevant and addresses the right areas of the brand and business.

• In conjunction with Channel Team, create buy Strategies that are in line with the Brand and Country Strategies and specific to store- and market needs, highlighting risks and opportunities.

Building the Team

• Train and lead Buying and Merchandising Team on full spectrum if buying across different regions and platform. Ensuring allocation plan and inventory situation are at optimal level in accordance to sales plan.

• Train and lead analysis Team, providing deep dive analysis on pricing and promotion. Reflect studies into the buy for future seasons and events planning

Education: Bachelor's Degree in business studies or relevant studied.

Functional: Min 1 year in retail merchandising , wholesale merchandising or product marketing function. Industry: Sports-lifestyle business

IT Skills: Advanced in Microsoft Excel and Power Point, basic knowledge of ERP

Language Skills: English (Business Level); Local Language (Business Level)

Faciliate and support the SEA Merch/GTM functions, in order to achieve the Merchandising strategy set by Head of Merchandising, to secure a solid/safe future platform for longevity and desirability of the brand. In their function and also support and deliver the financial plan, leading to maximum sell-through result.

Task 1: Merchandising Planning and Reporting – facilitate product range planning, article readiness, RRP and margins maintenance, checkpoint & cross functional alignment. Provide market competitor and pricing analysis. Track and align products order window, launch dates and sell thru’ of key launches with functional team.

Task 2: GTM Support – support GTM/Merch Managers with activities on efficient & result-oriented sell-in tools, analytics, Key Accounts’ requests, and ad-hoc reports, presentation/meeting preparation. Compiles and distributes Merchandising/product reports on regular and ad-hoc basis.

Task 3: Tools & Processes – support key Merch/GTM tools and processes in close alignment with global business solutions – forecasting board, sample portal, digital catalog.

Task 4: Showroom & Tradeshow Support – support the operation and execution of samples for tradeshow. Sample optimization involve sample ordering, tracking, inventory management, sample sales.                                                                                                                           

Eligibility Criteria and Functional Competencies Required

•Educational qualifications: MBA or Undergrad degree from top-tier Educational Institution ; MBA preferred but not mandatory

•Minimum 3 years of hands-on project implementation experience in POS Implementation and Support

•Knowledge of SAP Retail Business Process.

•Excellent spreadsheet manipulation and modelling skill

•Excellent writing, presentation, communication and organization skills

•Entrepreneurial spirit and energy 

•A passion for Digital, eCommerce and Sports, and the convergence of these areas

Key Objectives:

•Participate in the POS implementations/enhancement project through configuration of POS and ERP systems

•Support & resolve user issues on daily basis and in a timely manner

•Communication and coordination with internal and external business partners

•Assist with reporting requirements / exports from SAP / other systems

•Facilitate system changes according to Business Requirements & Change Requests

•Gather user's requirements & translate into functional enhancement requests (no coding needed)

•GAP analysis of businesses process vs requirements vs system capabilities / functionality

•Provide user training and system documentation

•Prepare testing and conduct user acceptance test with users

Background Education: Bachelor Degree, preferably with business degree

Professional: Minimum 3 years retail / merchandising experience in a fashion / branded / FOC retail environment

IT Skill: Strong computer skills including MS Excel, Word, Power Point

Language Skill: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Good English written/verbal skills required (PUMA Group language is English)

• Together with the Head of Merchandising, responsible for delivering a in-season strategy and building the most profitable, balanced, customer focused range for the country which reflects the PUMA Brand Strategy and supports any key country strategies
• Accountable for managing the in-season trading of the business in a way where inventory is managed efficiently and required trading decisions are made and communicated to stakeholders
• Execution of seasonal FPS & FOC buy
• Involve in assortment based on market/store/customer profile, participate in seasonal kickoff meetings to ensure product relevance, ensure right product mix with targeted division/product category in mind
• Assist in submission of seasonal orders
• Ensure the buy based on analysis of the historical data/sell through
• Involve in review seasonal collection performance vs expectations and in analysing consumer buying patterns, predicting future trends
• Effective and efficient in-season rollout
• Collaborate with VM & Retail Operations to ensure seasonal rollout is aligned with Global/ SEA direction
• Garner feedback from Brand ambassadors on shop floor to enhance on pre-season planning.
• Be close to market to monitor direct competitors against Brand's position in terms of pricing, product, technology, Hero items.
• Ensure timely rollout of monthly launches and product assortment plan prior launch of a season
• To ensure incoming new stocks to be launched responsible doors in a timely manner
• To execute accurate replenishment and to ensure stock holding is in healthy level
• To manage stock consolidation in between stores to reduce slow moving merchandise quantity
• To work closely with Country Logistic team and to be more pro-active to plan product ranges, give delivery forecast, check shipment status of incoming stocks, delivery schedules
• Partner with Country Planner in Weekly/ Monthly allocation and replenishment plans
• Pricing and Promotion setup in system
• Touch base weekly/monthly with VM/ Retail Ops/ Content Team to reaffirm on RESEC/ OSEC/ EC BANNER
• Participate in monthly SIC meeting / Walk the stores/retail visit bi-monthly
• Align best practices across territory
• Adhere to existing best practices and ensure it is consistently rolled out in different partner doors/ Platform
• Process Improvement
• To process monthly inventory projection report together with Country Planner
• To manage unproductive inventory and develop creative pricing programs for clearance or markdown
• To strategize annual EOSS events and Ad Hoc promotions/ activations to boost sell-through
• Working with Logistics to ensure timely deliveries of merchandise

Education: Bachelor’s Degree from Architecture, Civil Engineering, Interior Designer, or any related field

Professional: 3+ years’ experience in project management / construction and willing to travel across country

IT Skill: Mastering AutoCAD and or Sketchup

Language Skill: English (Business Level); Local Language (Business Level)

The Senior Executive Project role is key in driving seamless store openings and renovations. You'll manage project flow, coordinate teams, and ensure smooth project execution from start to finish, all while optimizing timelines and building strong relationships with vendors and stakeholders.

Task 1: Project Planning and Monitoring
•    Assist Project Manager in preparing the Bill of Quantities (BoQ) for new store openings or renovations.
•    Coordinate project activities, resources, and tasks across cross-functional teams.
•    Monitor and manage the project within the deliverable timeline.
•    Conduct site surveys and assessments to ensure proper execution of the project.
•    Liaise with vendors and landlords to ensure smooth project flow.
•    Support the Project Manager in client communications, providing updates, and suggesting potential adjustments.
•    Ensure proper documentation is maintained throughout the project lifecycle.

Task 2: Store Maintenance
•    Manage store maintenance work, follow up on requests from stores/operations, and ensure completion.
•    Ensure timely completion of maintenance tasks and proper communication with relevant stakeholders.

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