• About the Organisation & Role:

  You will be part of the Consumer Intelligence & Engagement organisation responsible for delivering the intelligence and engagement capabilities that enable more relevant and personalised consumer experiences across digital channels. The organisation plays a key role in how consumers discover products, engage with content, and elevate experiences through membership & loyalty. Through capabilities such as personalisation, recommendations, consumer intelligence, experimentation, and AI-driven decisioning, the organisation helps deliver more contextual, data-driven interactions across the consumer journey.

  The Engineering Manager is accountable for engineering delivery, roadmap execution, operational excellence, and engineering team development. Partnering with Product Owners, Data Engineering & Analytics, Tech Leads, and peer engineering teams, you will enable predictable delivery, grow engineering talent, and build a high-performing culture focused on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Drive planning and execution against team objectives and key results (OKRs), ensuring alignment, accountability and transparent reporting.

• Own sprint execution, delivery planning, capacity management, dependency management, and risk management.

• Partner with Product Owners, Project Managers, Retail Tech team, and Tech Leads to deliver business outcomes.

• Ensure inventory availability, delivery promise, and omnichannel capabilities are reliable, accurate, and scalable across channels.

• Drive engineering excellence through strong development practices, quality standards, operational discipline and continuous improvement.

• Coach engineers through regular feedback, mentoring, performance management, and career development.

• Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, collaboration, and learning.

• Establish effective engineering metrics and use data to improve team productivity, quality, and delivery predictability.

• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and automation to improve productivity, quality, and delivery efficiency.

• Identify opportunities to leverage AI across software development, testing, documentation, knowledge management and onboarding.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership on hiring, staffing, onboarding, talent development, and succession planning.

Manage delivery partners and vendors where applicable and ensure alignment with team objectives.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with experience leading engineering teams in an agile delivery environment.

• 3+ years of people leadership experience. 

• Strong experience leading roadmap execution, delivery planning, dependency management, and stakeholder engagement.

• Solid software engineering background with experience building APIs, distributed systems, and integration-heavy platforms.

• Familiarity with API-first, cloud-native architectures and design patterns.

• Familiarity with Order Management, Inventory Management platforms.

• Experience working with event-driven architectures, high-volume transactional systems, and enterprise integrations.

• Strong people leadership skills with experience in hiring, mentoring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams.

• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices including software architecture & engineering principles, code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development.

• Strong communication, collaboration, decision-making, and organisational leadership skills.

• Experience driving engineering quality, operational excellence, reliability, security, and continuous improvement.

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments using tools such as Jira & Confluence or equivalent.

• A data-driven mindset with the ability to use engineering, delivery, and operational metrics to improve team effectiveness and predictability.

• Experience leveraging coding agents, LLMs, and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software delivery and team productivity will be a strong advantage.

• Experience in eCommerce is preferred.

• About the Organisation & Role:

  You will be part of the Consumer Intelligence & Engagement organisation responsible for delivering the intelligence and engagement capabilities that enable more relevant and personalised consumer experiences across digital channels. The organisation plays a key role in how consumers discover products, engage with content, and elevate experiences through membership & loyalty. Through capabilities such as personalisation, recommendations, consumer intelligence, experimentation, and AI-driven decisioning, the organisation helps deliver more contextual, data-driven interactions across the consumer journey.

  The Engineering Manager is accountable for engineering delivery, roadmap execution, operational excellence, and engineering team development. Partnering with Product Owners, Data Engineering & Analytics, Tech Leads, and peer engineering teams, you will enable predictable delivery, grow engineering talent, and build a high-performing culture focused on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Enable delivery of scalable, reliable, and reusable services that power personalisation, recommendations, and consumer engagement experiences.

• Drive adoption of experimentation and data-driven decision making to continuously improve consumer experiences.

• Drive planning and execution against team objectives and key results (OKRs), ensuring alignment, accountability and transparent reporting.

• Own sprint execution, delivery planning, capacity management, dependency management, and risk management.

• Partner with Product Owners, Data Engineering and Tech Leads to deliver business outcomes.

• Drive engineering excellence through strong development practices, quality standards, operational discipline and continuous improvement.

• Coach engineers through regular feedback, mentoring, performance management, and career development.

• Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, collaboration, and learning.

• Establish effective engineering metrics and use data to improve team productivity, quality, and delivery predictability.

• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and automation to improve productivity, quality, and delivery efficiency.

• Identify opportunities to leverage AI across software development, testing, documentation, knowledge management and onboarding.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership on hiring, staffing, onboarding, talent development, and succession planning.

• Manage delivery partners and vendors where applicable and ensure alignment with team objectives.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with experience leading engineering teams in an agile delivery environment.

• 3+ years of people leadership experience. 

• Strong experience leading roadmap execution, delivery planning, dependency management, and stakeholder engagement.

• Experience working with consumer data, behavioural signals, and event-driven architectures.

• Familiarity with personalisation, recommendations, consumer intelligence, experimentation, search, or decisioning platforms.

• Strong people leadership skills with experience in hiring, mentoring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams.

• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices including software architecture & engineering principles, code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development.

• Strong communication, collaboration, decision-making, and organisational leadership skills.

• Experience driving engineering quality, operational excellence, reliability, security, and continuous improvement.

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments using tools such as Jira & Confluence or equivalent.

• A data-driven mindset with the ability to use engineering, delivery, and operational metrics to improve team effectiveness and predictability.

• Experience leveraging coding agents, LLMs, and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software delivery and team productivity will be a strong advantage.

Experience working with personalisation, recommendation, experimentation, search, or AI-powered consumer products will be a strong advantage

You will be part of the DTC Platform Engineering organisation responsible for delivering the shared platforms, engineering services, and foundations that enable product teams to build, test, deploy, and operate software securely and reliably at scale. Product engineering teams are the primary customers of the organisation. Through capabilities such as cloud platforms, developer experience, software delivery, quality engineering, security engineering, performance engineering, and AI-native engineering enablement, the organisation helps accelerate software delivery, improve engineering productivity, and establish consistent engineering standards across the technology landscape.

The Engineering Manager is accountable for engineering delivery, roadmap execution, operational excellence, and engineering team development. Partnering with Product Owners, Project Managers, Tech Leads, Platform Leads, SREs and peer engineering teams, you will enable predictable delivery, grow engineering talent, and build a high-performing culture focused on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
What you will do:

• Partner with the Platform Engineering Director to execute platform strategy, roadmap, and engineering initiatives across the organisation.

• Ensure platform roadmaps align with the needs, priorities and delivery objectives of product & project teams.

• Drive adoption of platform capabilities through developer enablement, training, workshops, and technical knowledge sharing.

• Establish effective feedback mechanisms to continuously improve platform capabilities, developer experience, and engineering productivity.

• Build strong collaboration models across product engineering teams, architecture, security, SRE, and platform teams to improve platform adoption and effectiveness.

• Lead engineering teams delivering integration platforms, shared services, and enterprise integration capabilities.

• Drive execution of the integrations roadmap and ensure reliable delivery of reusable integration capabilities across the technology landscape.

• Drive quality engineering practices, test automation adoption, and quality enablement capabilities across engineering teams.

• Establish and track platform adoption, engineering productivity, software quality, and developer experience metrics.

• Drive planning and execution against team objectives and key results (OKRs), ensuring alignment, accountability and transparent reporting.

• Own sprint execution, delivery planning, capacity management, dependency management, and risk management.  

• Coach engineers through regular feedback, mentoring, performance management, and career development.

• Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, collaboration, and learning.

• Drive adoption of AI-native engineering capabilities, coding agents and engineering automation to improve developer productivity and software delivery effectiveness.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership on hiring, staffing, onboarding, talent development, and succession planning.

• Manage delivery partners and vendors where applicable and ensure alignment with team objectives.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with experience leading engineering teams in an agile delivery environment.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience. 
• Strong experience leading roadmap execution, delivery planning, dependency management and stakeholder engagement.
• Solid software engineering background with experience building shared platforms, developer tooling, integration services or engineering enablement capabilities.
• Experience driving test automation, quality engineering, and software quality initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience driving platform adoption, engineering enablement, developer productivity, or technology transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence engineering teams and drive adoption of shared platforms, standards, and engineering practices.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, developer experience, CI/CD, integration platforms, quality engineering, observability, and platform engineering practices.
• Experience enabling engineering teams through AI-assisted development tools, coding agents, developer productivity platforms, and automation capabilities will be a strong advantage.
• Strong people leadership skills with experience in hiring, mentoring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong communication, collaboration, decision-making, and organisational leadership skills.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments using tools such as Jira & Confluence or equivalent.
• A data-driven mindset with the ability to use engineering, delivery, and operational metrics to improve team effectiveness and predictability.

Role Summary: PUMA India is looking for an experienced e-commerce professional to lead marketplace and digital commerce operations across key platforms such as Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, Ajio and other strategic online partners.

The role will be responsible for driving profitable growth, improving operational performance, managing inventory availability, optimizing marketplace execution and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to deliver the company’s commercial objectives.

Key Responsibilities

1. E-commerce and Marketplace Management

• Own the day-to-day business performance of assigned marketplaces and digital commerce channels.

• Develop and execute marketplace strategies to achieve revenue, profitability, sell-through and market-share objectives.

• Manage online product launches, seasonal campaigns, promotional events and commercial calendars.

• Drive improvements in traffic, conversion, average selling price, sell-through and overall marketplace productivity.

• Monitor marketplace dashboards and identify opportunities or risks related to sales, pricing, stock and product visibility.

• Build strong relationships with marketplace account managers and external business partners.

• Review marketplace performance and negotiate business plans, visibility opportunities, promotions and operational improvements.

2. Inventory and Availability Management

• Lead inventory planning and stock allocation across marketplaces in coordination with merchandising, planning, warehousing and supply chain teams.

• Monitor stock cover, sell-through, ageing inventory, stock-outs, excess inventory and replenishment requirements.

• Develop actions to improve inventory turnover and reduce lost sales caused by availability issues.

• Coordinate liquidation and markdown strategies for ageing, slow-moving and end-of-season inventory.

• Ensure alignment between commercial demand, inventory availability and fulfilment capacity.

3. Commercial and P&L Management

• Own the commercial performance of the assigned e-commerce business, including net sales, gross margin, discounts and profitability.

• Prepare periodic sales forecasts, budgets, business reviews and performance updates.

• Track actual performance against targets and identify corrective actions.

• Evaluate the financial impact of promotions, discounts, marketplace fees, returns and operational costs.

• Partner with finance teams to improve reporting accuracy and profitability visibility.

• Use data-driven insights to support pricing, promotion and investment decisions.

4. Catalogue and Product Operations

• Drive timely and accurate product catalogue creation, onboarding and content readiness.

• Coordinate product information, images, descriptions, attributes, pricing and inventory feeds across platforms.

• Improve product discoverability and content quality in partnership with brand, marketing and catalogue teams.

• Manage marketplace readiness for new launches, range updates and seasonal product transitions.

• Resolve catalogue, pricing, content, visibility and product mapping issues with internal and external teams.

5. Cross-functional Collaboration

• Work closely with merchandising, planning, supply chain, warehouse, finance, marketing, customer service and technology teams.

• Coordinate cross-functional action plans for business priorities and operational issues.

• Support the development of processes that improve execution speed, accuracy and scalability.

• Establish clear governance mechanisms, reporting routines and performance review forums.

• Provide insights and recommendations to senior leadership based on business performance and market trends.

6. Reporting and Analytics

• Create and maintain regular business reports, dashboards and management presentations.

• Analyze sales, inventory, profitability, customer, product and marketplace data to identify growth opportunities.

• Track key performance indicators and translate data into clear business actions.

• Improve the quality, automation and usability of e-commerce reporting.

• Use tools such as Excel, Power BI and marketplace analytics platforms to support decision-making.

Candidate Profile

• 6–9 years of experience in e-commerce, marketplace management, digital retail or commercial operations.

• Experience managing major marketplaces such as Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, Ajio or similar platforms.

• Strong understanding of online retail metrics, marketplace operations, inventory planning and promotional management.

• Experience managing sales targets, business planning, forecasting and P&L performance.

• Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams and external marketplace partners.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to convert data into business decisions.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with Power BI or similar analytics tools is preferred.

• Experience in fashion, footwear, apparel, sportswear, lifestyle or consumer retail will be an advantage.

• Strong communication, stakeholder-management and negotiation skills.

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, target-oriented environment.

Preferred Competencies

• Commercial ownership and business acumen.

• Marketplace and digital-growth mindset.

• Strong inventory and supply-chain understanding.

• Structured problem-solving approach.

• Data-driven decision-making.

• Effective stakeholder management.

• Attention to detail and execution discipline.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities under tight timelines.

• Leadership and team-management capability.

• To monitor & maintain production quality findings analysis, rework and statistical interpretation share & guide relevant sections. Provide support to minimize reworks and reduce defect percentages. Minimize interdepartmental rework ​and ensure on-time shipment with the right quality.
• Train the factory CFA (Certified Factory Auditor) QA teams, we need to develop a factory CFA, QFA (QMS factory auditor), and QA team through verification training by PGS.
• Perform PP meetings in line, pre-final and final inspection. Monitoring running production and providing technical support to the production unit when required to ensure the right quality standard.
• Ensure a quality management system (QMS). To be able to conduct QMS audit follow-up on a quarterly basis to ensure all corrective action stated in the CAR is implemented according to the agreed CAP and timeline. To be able to conduct continuous training for suppliers and QFA (QMS factory auditor).
• Performance of Passing Rates: Inbound versus Outbound: Uphold the Quality Pass Rate Requirement: Using the information retrieved from the PBI and PGS self-data record systems, create a tracking record for the manufacturers and suppliers. Along with reducing outbound versus inbound problems,
  Submission PGS of monthly manufacturing performance during the final inspection.

• Quality Assurance Knowledge
• Problem-Solving Skill
• Communication Skill
• Time Management
• Quality Management System (QMS)
• Documentation and Reporting
• Knowledge of Garment Construction
• Vendor Management
• Process Improvement

Reporting directly to the Director Social Sustainability, this role drives social compliance and human rights initiatives across assigned suppliers and supports the team in advancing sustainability strategies and goals. Responsibilities include managing audit programs, supplier engagement, grievance handling, data-driven performance tracking and reporting to promote continuous improvement in line with PUMA sustainability standards and local regulatory requirements.

Task 1: Training & Capability Building

• Coordinate sustainability projects by supporting project planning, defining workplans, tracking timelines, and ensuring key deliverables are completed in line with agreed priorities and milestones.
• Work with internal teams, suppliers, external partners, and industry initiatives to coordinate project activities, collect inputs, follow up on actions, and support smooth implementation across relevant workstreams.
• Monitor project progress, identify implementation gaps or risks, prepare status updates, and provide practical recommendations to support timely delivery and continuous improvement of sustainability initiatives.
• Conduct training sessions for sourcing teams, suppliers and factory management to enhance compliance awareness, share best practices, and drive continuous improvement.

Task 2: Reporting & Team Contribution

• Support the team’s sustainability reporting by consolidating data inputs, preparing planning materials, tracking milestones, and monitoring progress toward Social Sustainability goals.
• Maintain reporting tools, trackers, SOPs, and templates to improve data quality, cross functional alignment, and timely visibility of sustainability performance and action plans.
• Support responses to ESG benchmarking questionnaires and external sustainability information requests by coordinating inputs, collecting supporting evidence, reviewing data accuracy, and ensuring timely and consistent submissions.
• Other tasks as assigned by the manager.

Task 3: Audit and Compliance Management

• Conduct PUMA social audits and oversee third-party audit activities, from planning and coordination to findings review, CAP follow-up, root-cause analysis, and support for sustainable remediation with factory management.
• Review and analyze audit reports (e.g: SLCP reports, or other audit reports converted from other FLA accredited brands and finalize findings according to PUMA requirements and internal standards.)
• Ensure timely and accurate tracking of audit results, validity timeline in internal systems, in accordance with internal Sustainability SOPs
• Provide clear insights, communicate key findings, risks and progress update to relevant stakeholders (e.g. Sourcing, internal teams) to support compliance risk management and decision making.

Task 4: Social KPI Data Collection and Management

• Collect, validate and analyze Social Sustainability KPIs across assigned suppliers to ensure data accuracy and consistency.
• Identify the trends, recurring issues, and key gaps to generate actionable insights and support continuous improvement initiatives and achieve PUMA Sustainability targets.

Task 5: Grievance Mechanism Handling and Management

• Manage and follow up on worker or third-party grievances received through internal and external channels, ensuring timely and appropriate investigation and resolution.
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders, including suppliers, internal teams, and 3rd party grievance platforms to ensure smooth implementation, effective handling the cases while maintaining confidentiality and sensitivity.
• Track grievance cases and analyze trends to identify systemic issues and support preventive actions.

• Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred (covering the area of expertise required)
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in social compliance, sustainability, or related field
• Hands-on experience working with supplier factories and audit processes
• Familiarity with social compliance standards (e.g. SLCP, FLA or equivalent)
• Experience in apparel, footwear, or manufacturing industry
• Experience working with global brands and sustainability reporting
• Strong background in Occupational Heath and Safety (OHS)
• Exposure to data analysis or reporting tools (e.g. advanced Excel, Power BI)
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Good stakeholder coordination and engagement skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset
• High attention to detail and data accuracy
• Solid knowledge of relevant regulations and local law
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Fluent in English (required)
• Travel Time: 50% (Frequent factory visits)

• Ensure consumer interest and generate traffic and revenue in stores through impactful in-store communication : Seamless and consistent experience across all channels.

• Be responsible for all in-store communications & VP zones, manage ISC and work cross-functionally to ensure successful execution of seasonal Key Initiatives & Campaigns
   

• [Task 1] (40%)
  - Create and deliver quality and innovative retail marketing materials for in-store communications. 
  - Oversee production and delivery of in-store communication tools with third party agency and vendor management.  Exellent graphic execution skills are required.
  - Preparing all needs for ISC manual and display materials for each Campaign.

• [Task 2] (20%)
  - Develop, analyze, assess and improve the process for delivering effective sell in and sell through retail marketing strategies in alignment with Regional strategy.

• [Task 3] (20%)
  - Rounding stores in main area for seasonal Campaigns.
  - Check interior condition for all stores and support execution of renewal on outdated stores.
  - Manage vendors for instore execution.

• [Task 4] (20%)
  - Vender Management in order to maintain the quality of service provided from the vender, meetings are regularly established, trained and supervised.
  (Manage local and global vendors for subsidiary materials and mannequins)
   

• Education : Bachelor's degree 

• Professional : 4~7 yrs VM & ISC experience (Fashion/Sport industries preferred)

• IT Skills : MS Office skills, Photoshop, Illustration

• Language Skills : English (Intermediate)

• Competencies : 
  - Creative judgement
  - Open communication & positive mindset
  - Full of energy

• Functional Skills : 
  - Vendor management 
  - Strong creative judgment
  - Working knowledge of the store environment and the challenges facing both the brand & retailer
  - In-depth expertise using software tools 
   

Position Summary: We are seeking a strategic and creative social media professional to lead PUMA India's presence across platforms like Instagram, X, YouTube, and Pinterest. This role involves developing impactful content, managing influencer collaborations, and driving engagement while ensuring brand consistency. You’ll work closely with internal teams and agencies to execute campaigns, monitor performance, and optimize based on insights and trends.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong understanding of content creation and curation, working closely with design and copy teams to ensure compelling, platform-specific content that reflects the brand's voice and values.

Reports to : Head - Brand Creative, Social and Influencer

Key Objectives:

• Social Media Strategy & Management: Develop and implement effective social media strategies to increase brand heat and engagement across all major platforms including Instagram, X, YouTube and Pinterest. You'll manage and oversee PUMA India's social media accounts, ensuring consistent brand messaging and community engagement through timely responses. You will also monitor, analyse, and report on social media performance metrics, adjusting strategies as needed to optimize results.

• Content Creation & Curation: Create, curate, and manage high-quality, engaging content tailored for various platforms. This includes collaborating with design and copy teams to produce compelling visuals and copy, ensuring all content aligns with brand guidelines and resonates with target audiences. You'll also develop and execute a content calendar for all brand social channels, staying updated on content formats and trends to keep our presence fresh and relevant.

• Influencer Marketing & Strategic Other Partnerships: Identify, onboard, and manage relevant influencers and agencies who align with campaign goals and brand values. You'll lead the end-to-end execution of campaigns, including planning, outreach, negotiation, briefing, coordination, content approval, and post-launch review. This also involves tracking deliverables, performance, and campaign ROI, while maintaining and nurturing long-term relationships with creators.

• Collaboration & Analytics: Work closely with internal teams across marketing, product, digital, PR, and finance, as well as external brand and creative agencies, to ensure cohesive execution of marketing campaigns. You'll track performance metrics (engagement, reach, traffic, conversions) for both social media and influencer campaigns, preparing actionable insights and optimizing based on analytics to improve future results and ROI. You will also stay updated on the latest social media trends, tools, best practices, and competitor strategies to provide strategic input.

Key Performance Indicators

• Innovative content

• Brand aspiration

• Team lead

Organizational Relationships:

• Internal: Marketing team

Eligibility Criteria And Functional  Competencies Required:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in social media management, digital marketing, or brand content strategy

• Prior experience handling brand accounts with significant scale and engagement across Instagram, X, YouTube, Pinterest

• Proven track record of managing influencer campaigns and external agency partners

• Strong portfolio of social campaigns or brand content.

• Strengthen and manage the relationship with marketplaces business and at the same time manage all aspects of business
• Manage our Marketplace business, enable growth in sales and margins according to brand initiatives , PUMA’s strategy and key product stories
• Take ownership of a variety of high-impact initiatives & product experiences by contributing to our vision, strategy, process
• Develop optimal structures of existing marketplaces and establish sustainable growth by integrating new marketplaces
• Challenge given structures, identify inefficiencies and drive the optimization of the marketplace setup to ensure healthy expansion of the business
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve Marketplace tactics and operations, enhance customer experience, and maximize ROI
• Ability to work cohesively with sales strategy, data science, product marketing. Monitor KPIs focusing on goals for article onboarding, inventory health and customer experience
• Optimize critical dashboards and spreadsheets for key business stakeholders in marketing and sales
• Detailed understanding of forecasting and actuals analysis. Analytical, and reporting skills required
• Exhibit sound business judgment, a proven ability to influence others, strong analytical skills, and a proven track record of taking ownership, leading data-driven analyses, and influencing results
• Liaise and manage multiple external vendors & internal partners and also contribute to further develop partnerships
• Communicate specifications with internal and key partners, cross-functional teams, including but not limited to: senior management, business development, marketing, merchandising, product and project management
• Assist Team members in resolving issues or difficulties in the performance of their work and knowing when issues should be escalated

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business Administration, E-Commerce, or a related field
• 4–5+ years of experience in account management, sales, or e-commerce operations
• Proven track record of strategizing and executing large-scale, on-platform initiatives
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong analytical mindset with a data-driven approach, leveraging quantitative and qualitative metrics to continuously optimize marketing performance
• Full professional fluency in English (written and spoken)
• Exceptional project management skills: adept at planning, tracking, organizing, and multi-tasking
• High attention to detail with a commitment to quality and timeliness
• Proactive, highly motivated self-starter who thrives in ambiguity and navigates complex programs independently.

Position Summary :

• Concept Design for Full price stores and FOC - Visual Merchandising 

• Responsible for maintaining window display of products across stores

• Maintaining Product feel and look stories.

• Fostering VM creativity at stores

Reports to : Senior Manager Brand and Retail Activations

Key Objectives:

• Responsible for Window Display of key products across the stores

• Maintaining support for Key Initiatives and product displays

• Conceptualizing and designing spatial experiences for brand activations and events that bring campaigns to life while delivering engaging customer journeys.

• Planning and Designing complete look and feel of the stores by creating stories, maintaining cost control and keeping up with the guidelines.

• Creating display guidelines and technical guidelines for VM team and store teams.

• Being a part of discussion with the Merchandising about the key products highlights and follow up on it.

• Create prototypes and get Global approval for the innovative displays of the key initiatives of the month

• Customer interaction touch points by creating stories and highlights inside the stores to maintain the feel of the stores.

• Enabling QR Codes scanning for the customers to help them look for products online and get more information on it.

• Planning complete season in coordination with Marketing and merchandising for a seamless flow of display in stores.

• Seasonal upliftment of stores.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Sell thru

• RESEC – Window Campaign

•  Key initiatives and Zoning

• Innovative Displays

• Sell In’s Display

• Cost Control

• Stock Cover

Organizational Relationships:

Internal:

•  Merchandising

•  Marketing

• Planning 

External:

• Vendors

Eligibility Criteria And Functional  Competencies Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Visual Merchandising or a related field.

• 3-4 years of experience in Visual Merchandising, Retail Design or Brand Experience + Spatial Design.

• Strong understanding of retail design, customer journey and visual storytelling.

• Proven experience in conceptualizing and executing window displays and in-store product presentations.

• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects etc); knowledge of 3D visualization and AutoCAD/Blender/SketchUp.

• Ability to create technical drawings, display guidelines and execution manuals.

• Experience in prototyping and developing innovative VM concepts within budget and timelines.

• Strong project management, planning and cross-functional stakeholder management skills.

• Good understanding of retail operations, merchandising and production processes.

• Excellent communication, presentation and problem-solving skills.

• Working knowledge of materials and fabrication, with the ability to design within defined budgets, timelines and production constraints.

• Attention to detail with the ability to balance creativity and commercial objectives.

• Willingness to travel for store visits, VM implementation and quality audits.

• Supports the leadership and day-to-day operation of the Technical Development team, ensuring consistent and accurate execution of fit, measurement and workmanship across garments
• Works closely with all stakeholders and suppliers to support technical decision-making throughout the garment development process and enables efficient execution by coordinating team activities, supporting risk assessment and escalating  critical topics where required
• Team Leadership & Daily Operations: Lead and support a team of technical experts, providing guidance on fit, grading, measurement, and garment construction topics. Act as escalation point for difficult cases. Ensure smooth day-to-day operations by coordinating workloads and monitoring progress against development timelines. Foster transparency by keeping the team aligned on project status, changes, and potential challenges. Drive execution of key initiatives and ad hoc projects in line with business priorities. Empower team members through clear role definitions, performance expectations, and a continuous improvement mindset
• Fit, Measurement, Workmanship & Sample Approval Governance: Manage sample approval for fit, measurement and workmanship within the development and OPD (Order Placement) calendar. Provide technical support to development team in achieving high-quality product outcomes. Collaborate closely with suppliers to address construction topics early and drive effective solutions. Participate in milestone fitting sessions and provide technical guidance to validate fit and construction
• Risk Assessment & CFT (Certified Factory Technician) Workflow Support: Support risk assessments in collaboration with QA and suppliers to ensure production feasibility and quality standards. Coordinate and support Certified Factory Technician (CFT) training with suppliers, contributing to capability building and process efficiency. Capture and share technical insights and feedback to continuously improve standards, guidelines, and workflows
• Stakeholder Alignment: Work closely with Product Manager, Designer, Developers, QA and Production to ensure seamless technical execution from design handover to production. Act as a trusted technical partner supporting decision-making when priorities conflict (quality / cost / timeline). Escalate strategic or systemic issues with clear analysis and recommendations to the line manager

• Graduate in Textiles/Clothing Engineering or Management
• 8+ years relevant experience major in Sportswear Apparel
  with Team Management experience
• Knowledge of Gerber/3D Software
• Good communication skills in English; Mandarin (Putonghua) is a plus
• Strong knowledge of garment construction, patterns and grading
• Solid understanding of textiles and fabric behavior
• Strong problem solving and analytical thinking
• Leadership and Coaching mindset

• Work closely with apparel designer and responsible for all line graphic design, including Select/ Special Make up / Rapid Response Design creation for Key Accounts, Puma Retail, and Outlet or any account when required.
• Understand the region’s trends and market direction to ensure all graphic designed for the regions are brand relevant.
• Under the direction of the Teamhead/ Creative Director, collect market intelligence, providing all involved with accurate and up-to-date information on graphic design trends and developments and utilizes them effectively.
• Identify functionality requirements and ensure accurate use of information technology systems in order to gain competitive advantage.
• Be accountable for achieving all tasks of the Vertical Development Calendar within the given timelines.
• Work closely with Teamhead of design, Product Line Manager, Development team and China merchant team to create and execute innovative graphic design for apparel based on Global creative direction.
• Travel to the factories to work on the development of the product and ensure that quick response timelines are met.

• University degree in Design and/or relevant field of study
• At least 5-8 years of work experience of graphic design of apparel for one or more leading fashion/lifestyle/sports brand, ideally in the fashion, athletic/apparel industry
• Versatile designer who has experience designing graphic across men’s, women’s and children’s products. Strong apparel graphic execution knowledge is preferred
• Professional experience working in team environment, ability to function autonomously as well as in a cooperative, diverse group
• Professional working experience with Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.
• Tremendous attention to detail and extraordinary time-management skills
• Key account concept and end-consumer understanding within the Chinese market
• Vertical mindset
• Strategic and creative thinking, strong initiative, passionate about product
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Fluent in Mandarin and English