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:

• Graduate from a reputed institute

• 2-3 years experience in Retail Merchandising

• Strong Communication, presentation and organizational skills

• Advance proficiency in excel

• Strong analytical and numerical ability

• Ability to multitask and prioritize based on business needs

• High learning agility, open to adopting new tools and technologies.

Reporting to: Senior Manager Merchandising FP Stores

Position Summary: In this role, you will work in close collaboration with the Buying & Sales team to assess market demand and optimize inventory planning, ensuring the right assortment is available at the right location and in the appropriate quantities. The role is responsible for managing trading performance and stock allocation of PUMA counters across Shop in Shops (SIS), including key partners like Kapsons,Iconic,Inc5,Regal. Through regular performance analysis the position delivers actionable insights that support efficient execution and contribute to overall business growth and profitability.

Key Objectives:

In-Season Merchandising & Analysis:

• Analyzing regular sales data and replenishing required stock

• Ensure timely dispatch of incoming new season stock to respective stores as per the launch plan.

• Prepare a rolling monthly inventory forecast and ensuring the inventory is maintained as per budget. Track variance if any and suggest remedial measures.

• Reviewing business performance and defining the course of action

• Collaborate closely with sales, buying, and operations teams, maintaining a strong connection with the product line and customer trends to develop effective allocation strategies.

• Collaborate with Visual Merchandising (VM), Retail Operations, and Sales teams to ensure seasonal rollouts are aligned and implemented as per plan.

• Manage RTV (Return to Vendor) to the warehouse and facilitate stock consolidation between stores to reduce slow-moving merchandise and improve store assortment.

Assortment Planning & Performance Monitoring:

• Prepare seasonal assortment plans, ensuring the right mix at Division Category, MRP band, and product type level

• Monitor style performance through regular tracking of Rate of Sale (ROS) and Sell-Through.

• Collaborate closely with the retail sales team to identify operational gaps and implement corrective actions.

• Monitor daily business performance and profitability through key performance indicators (KPIs).

• Maintain optimal stock cover across stores.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Net Sales

• Stock Cover

• Sell Thru %

• Markdown (Discount%)

Organizational Relationships:

Internal:

• Buying Team

• Sales team

• Operations Team

• Finance Team

• VM & Project Team

External:

• Partners

Eligibility Criteria And Functional  Competencies Required:

• MBA / MFM / Engineering from a reputed institute with 1–3 years of relevant experience in retail merchandising, planning.

• Strong proficiency in ‘Microsoft Excel’ is a must.

• Excellent analytical and numerical skills.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for stakeholder management

• Self-motivated and driven; capable of working independently with minimal or no supervision.

• Ability to multitask and prioritize work based on business needs.

• Analytical and inquisitive mindset with a keen eye for detail.

• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies/tools as required by the business.

Location: Bangalore (In-office)

• Assist in creating engaging, on-brand copy for social media posts, reels, and campaigns.

• Assist in ideating and executing content strategies for Instagram and other platforms.

• Stay on top of social media trends, memes, and pop culture moments to keep content fresh and relevant.

• Work closely with the design and marketing teams to ensure creative alignment.

• Bachelors degree in Mass Communication, Marketing, English, Design, or related field.

• Strong command over written English and social media tone of voice.

• Highly creative, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

Reports to: Senior Regional Visual Merchandiser (West and East).

Location: Pune

Position Summary: To ensure enhancement of visual representation of the store by continuously updating the look and feel of the store.

• Maintaining RESEC Campaigns, Zoning and Key initiative roll-out

• Elevated shopping experience and customer readiness of stores focus on store visits and audit

• Fostering VM creativity at stores - Focus on VM training to guide store team to understand brand guidelines and help create an attractive, engaging store environment. Enhancing brand image, improve customer experience and drive sales

• Responsible for sharing monthly beat plan covering all formats of stores

• Innovation and creativity for the lighthouse stores

Key Objectives:

• Provide support through regular physical & virtual audits and trainings to store teams to ensure brand and visual merchandising standards are understood and consistently upheld

• Order and coordinate installation of VM supplies for seasonal / monthly changes for all stores in the region.

• Train Store Management and Support teams on merchandising standards, proper fixture utilization and techniques

• Organizing and sending weekly/monthly reports to the Head Office and implementing feedback

• Maintain/ building a vendor base for various branded supply elements for the region

• Fostering VM creativity at stores through VM training, competition, store audits and VM captains

• Supporting Key initiatives roll outs by covering all store formats.

• Effective budget allocation / Align with over all business goals.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Net Sales

• Stock Cover

• Budget efficiency

• Constant upliftment of look & feel of stores

Organizational relationships:

• Internal: Visual Merchandising Team, Sales Ops Team, Projects team and Merchandising Team

• External: Hangers Vendors, Mannequin Vendors and Print media vendors

Eligibility Criteria And Functional Competencies Required:

• Proven work experience as a Visual Merchandiser or Visual Manager

• Demonstrable visual design skills with a strong retail merchandising portfolio

• Solid experience in field visual merchandising, including window displays, signs, interior displays and space utilization

• Proficiency in Microsoft presentation & excel, Photoshop, Illustrator and other visual design tools

• Knowledge of current visual merchandising trends and best practices

• Knowledge of photography

• Creative and innovative thinker

• Ability to analyze sales merchandising reports and survey results

• Bachelors/Masters degree in visual merchandising, fashion merchandising, exhibition design, visual communications or similar

• Acing Number game- analyzing and tracking of the executions done

• A proficient communicator.

Reports to: Lead Visual Merchandising Execution

Position Summary:

• To ensure enhancement of visual representation of each Puma store by continuously updating the look and feel of the space.

• Fostering VM creativity to front end team through VM trainings, Competitions & Store Audits

• Alpha execution of Resec which includes Campaigns, Seasonal visual change overs and Key story roll outs

• Responsible for all formats of stores- EBOs, Partner, SIS & LFR 

• A planned journey for the responsible set of stores (beat plan) to be adhered and shared month on month

Key Objectives:

• Provide support to store teams to ensure brand and visual merchandising standards are understood and consistently upheld 

• Plan, order and coordinate for VM supplies for seasonal / monthly changes for the set of stores. 

• Train Store Management and Support teams on merchandising standards, proper fixture utilization and techniques  

• Organizing and sending weekly/monthly reports to the Head Office and implementing feedback 

• Maintaining a vendor base for various branded supply elements for the region 

• Fostering VM creativity to front end through VM trainings, Competitions & Store Audits 

• Supporting Key initiatives roll outs by covering all store formats. 

Key Performance Indicators:

• Net Sales 

• Stock Cover vs Store Experience

• Elevating Vendor Base

• Business perspective of VM

Organizational Relationships:

• Internal: Visual Merchandising Team , Sales Ops Team, Merchandising Team and Project Team 

• External: Execution partners for branded supplies and print media.

Eligibility Criteria And Functional  Competencies Required:

• 8+ years of experience

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Fashion Communication / Textile Or Accessories Design

• Work experience as a Visual Merchandiser

• Demonstrable visual design skills with a strong retail merchandising portfolio 

• Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator with the skill set for MS office (Word/ PowerPoint/ Excel) 

• Well versed with best practices of VM in Local & Global industry  

• Excelling Photography skill  

• Innovative thinker 

• Acing Number game- analyzing and tracking of the executions done  

• Deliver brand experience at EBO &MBOs

• Team Management experience

Reports to: Regional  Visual Merchandiser South

Position Summary: To ensure enhancement of visual representation of each Puma store by continuously updating the look and feel of the space.

Fostering VM creativity to front end team through VM trainings, Competitions & Store Audits

Alpha execution of Resec which includes Campaigns, Seasonal visual change overs and Key story roll outs

Responsible for all formats of stores- EBOs, Partner, SIS & LFR 

A planned journey for the responsible set of stores (beat plan) to be adhered and shared month on month

Key Objectives:

• Provide support to store teams to ensure brand and visual merchandising standards are understood and consistently upheld 

• Plan, order and coordinate for VM supplies for seasonal / monthly changes for the set of stores. 

• Train Store Management and Support teams on merchandising standards, proper fixture utilization and techniques  

• Organizing and sending weekly/monthly reports to the Head Office and implementing feedback 

• Maintaining a vendor base for various branded supply elements for the region 

• Fostering VM creativity to front end through VM trainings, Competitions & Store Audits 

• Supporting Key initiatives roll outs by covering all store formats. 

Key Performance Indicators:

• Net Sales 

• Stock Cover 

• Maintaining Vendor Base 

Organizational Relationships:

• Internal: Visual Merchandising Team , Sales Ops Team, Merchandising Team and Project Team 

• External: Execution partners for hangers, Execution partners for mannequins, Execution partners for branded supplies and Execution partners for print media 

Eligibility Criteria And Functional  Competencies Required:

• 5+ years of experience

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Fashion Communication / Fashion /Accessories/ Textile Design

• Work experience as a Visual Merchandiser including design/ execution 

• Demonstrable visual design skills with a strong retail merchandising portfolio 

• Proficiency in Microsoft presentation & excel, Photoshop, Illustrator and other visual design tools

• Well versed with best practices of VM in Global industry  

• Excelling Photography skill  

• Creative and innovative thinker 

• Acing Number game- analyzing and tracking of the executions done  

• A proficient communicator.

Reports to: Regional Visual Merchandiser North

Position Summary:

• To ensure enhancement of visual representation of each Puma store by continuously updating the look and feel of the space.

• Fostering VM creativity to front end team through VM trainings, Competitions & Store Audits

• Alpha execution of Resec which includes Campaigns, Seasonal visual change overs and Key story roll outs

• Responsible for all formats of stores- EBOs, Partner, SIS & LFR 

• A planned journey for the responsible set of stores (beat plan) to be adhered and shared month on month

Key Objectives:

• Provide support to store teams to ensure brand and visual merchandising standards are understood and consistently upheld 

• Plan, order and coordinate for VM supplies for seasonal / monthly changes for the set of stores. 

• Train Store Management and Support teams on merchandising standards, proper fixture utilization and techniques  

• Organizing and sending weekly/monthly reports to the Head Office and implementing feedback 

• Maintaining a vendor base for various branded supply elements for the region 

• Fostering VM creativity to front end through VM trainings, Competitions & Store Audits 

• Supporting Key initiatives roll outs by covering all store formats. 

Key Performance Indicators:

• Net Sales 

• Stock Cover 

• Maintaining Vendor Base 

Organizational Relationships:

• Internal: Visual Merchandising Team , Sales Ops Team, Merchandising Team and Project Team 

• External: Execution partners for hangers, Execution partners for mannequins, Execution partners for branded supplies and Execution partners for print media 

Eligibility Criteria And Functional  Competencies Required:

• 5+ years of experience

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Fashion Communication / Fashion /Accessories/ Textile Design

• Work experience as a Visual Merchandiser including design/ execution 

• Demonstrable visual design skills with a strong retail merchandising portfolio 

• Proficiency in Microsoft presentation & excel, Photoshop, Illustrator and other visual design tools

• Well versed with best practices of VM in Global industry  

• Excelling Photography skill  

• Creative and innovative thinker 

• Acing Number game- analyzing and tracking of the executions done  

• A proficient communicator.

Reports to: Senior Regional Visual Merchandiser (West and East).

Position Summary: To ensure enhancement of visual representation of the store by continuously updating the look and feel of the store.

• Maintaining RESEC Campaigns, Zoning and Key initiative roll-out

• Elevated shopping experience and customer readiness of stores focus on store visits and audit

• Fostering VM creativity at stores - Focus on VM training to guide store team to understand brand guidelines and help create an attractive, engaging store environment. Enhancing brand image, improve customer experience and drive sales

• Responsible for sharing monthly beat plan covering all formats of stores

• Innovation and creativity for the lighthouse stores

Key Objectives:

• Provide support through regular physical & virtual audits and trainings to store teams to ensure brand and visual merchandising standards are understood and consistently upheld

• Order and coordinate installation of VM supplies for seasonal / monthly changes for all stores in the region.

• Train Store Management and Support teams on merchandising standards, proper fixture utilization and techniques

• Organizing and sending weekly/monthly reports to the Head Office and implementing feedback

• Maintain/ building a vendor base for various branded supply elements for the region

• Fostering VM creativity at stores through VM training, competition, store audits and VM captains

• Supporting Key initiatives roll outs by covering all store formats.

• Effective budget allocation / Align with over all business goals.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Net Sales

• Stock Cover

• Budget efficiency

• Constant upliftment of look & feel of stores

Organizational relationships:

• Internal: Visual Merchandising Team, Sales Ops Team, Projects team and Merchandising Team

• External: Hangers Vendors, Mannequin Vendors and Print media vendors

Eligibility Criteria And Functional  Competencies Required:

• Proven work experience as a Visual Merchandiser or Visual Manager

• Demonstrable visual design skills with a strong retail merchandising portfolio

• Solid experience in field visual merchandising, including window displays, signs, interior displays and space utilization

• Proficiency in Microsoft presentation & excel, Photoshop, Illustrator and other visual design tools

• Knowledge of current visual merchandising trends and best practices

• Knowledge of photography

• Creative and innovative thinker

• Ability to analyze sales merchandising reports and survey results

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in visual merchandising, fashion merchandising, exhibition design, visual communications or similar

• Acing Number game- analyzing and tracking of the executions done  

• A proficient communicator.

Reports To: Area Sales Manager / Regional Manager

Location: Tamil Nadu- Multiple Store Locations within Assigned Territory

Role Summary: The Area Retail Associate (ARA) supports the Area Sales Manager by ensuring operational excellence, brand consistency, and sales performance across multiple PUMA SIS in a designated region. This role acts as a bridge between store teams and area leadership, helping drive store execution, training, and compliance.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Store Support & Operations:-

• Assist multiple SIS with day-to-day operational requirements.

• Tracking competition to keep abreast of new developments in the market and providing regular feedback to ensure constant improvement in the product offering

2. Sales Performance & Targets:-

• Deliver targeted sales nos. from SIS & Bi-brand stores by driving desired Puma Retail standards

• Track SIS-level KPIs

• Support SIS Staff in achieving sales targets through improved service and selling skills.

• Analyze SIS performance and share insights with the Area Sales Manager.

3. Visual Merchandising:-

• Ensure VM standards are implemented consistently across all SIS.

• Coordinate with VM team for execution of seasonal updates, campaigns, and product launches.

• Audit SIS display quality and provide corrective action plans.

4. Inventory & Stock Management:-

• Assist SIS in stock replenishment, stock counts, and shrinkage control.

• Identify fast/slow-moving products & support stock balancing across stores.

• Report stock gaps and discrepancies to the Area Manager and Merchandising team

5. Training & Team Development:-

• Conduct on-floor training for new and existing Retail Associates.

• Reinforce product knowledge, customer service expectations, and selling skills.

• Support performance coaching for SIS staff.

6. Franchisee management 

• Handle Key accounts and franchisee 

Working Conditions:

• Field-based role. Requires daily/weekly travel across assigned stores.

• Flexible hours, including weekends and retail peak seasons.

Qualifications & Requirements

Education: Graduate (Preferred: Business, Retail, Marketing).

Experience:

• 3- 5 years in retail operations.

• Experience handling multi-store/SIS/LFR or supervisory retail roles is an advantage.

• This role involves planning, system optimization, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to improve logistics efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance the supply chain's operational effectiveness using TMS.

• Upgrading the system as per business requirements and aligning the same with the service provider.

• Providing data driven insights to stakeholders involved in Forward and Return Journey.

• Optimizing inventory management and order management of Packing Material across the network.

• Ensuring end to end compliance for TMS and inventory management modules within Cargo fl.

• Ensure accurate inventory tracking and management across multiple locations, optimizing inventory levels to meet operational needs without excess.

• PODs are available in TMS for each, and every invoice assigned to transporter, if not highlight to Transporter Manager.

• Cancel the DN in TMS as per SAP/LEA.

• In the Invoice Bridge/Manager Returns Module, Check the Transporters LR are available correctly.

• Return IDs for defective Articles/Stock Transfers for Bangalore and RWHs are created.

• LC prices are updated as per SAP in Product Master.

• New products are added from SAP.

• Ensure Packaging Inventory Management Module implementation in all new site before go-live.

• Check invoicing and e-waybill compliance through Cargo FL.

• In case of Packing Material Inventory depletion highlight to relevant stakeholders.

• Checking Indent raised to inventory provided to the floor team is as per the Indent qty released.

• Ensure Packaging Material Module implementation in all new site before go-live.

• Creating User IDs for new users and disabling user which are available in the system now.

• Send Welcome kit or change password for stores.

• Assist stores with issues relating to uploading the packing list.

• Weekly meetings with TMS team to align with the bugs and issues faced. Check relevant rights are provided for each user.

• Providing end to end assistance for new areas of improvements by conducting projects.

• Roviding end to end assistance for new areas of improvements by conducting projects.

• Intimating TMS users about TMS Downtime and coordinating with TMS team for issues arising during downtime.

• Refresher trainings for uploading packing list in TMS to PAN India stores cluster wise.

• Intimating TMS users about Clear tax Downtime, via mail to plan creating the E-waybill in TMS accordingly.

• SOP to be updated and created as per new process.

• Check all the Transporters APIs-Track API, POD API are working fine.

• Change transporter or cancel Transporters LR as per the new transporter assigned in LBX.

• Correct Bad data output from TMS and adding the new pin code information in TMS.

• Time In and Time out information is correctly added at security gate.

• Resolve transporter related issues like Generating Transporters LR/ Address miss for consignee/Pin code.

• TAT to be as per transporters Agreement, if imputed wrong by the system to be corrected and highlighted to the respective transporters SPOC.

• Monitoring Automatic transporters assignment is working as per logic.

• On boarding new transporters in TMS as per business requirements.

• Checking UFO information is correctly outwarded by the system.

• Rate card is updated as per new contracts.

• The KPI for a TMS Coordinator include metrics such as freight cost savings, carrier compliance, reflecting efficiency, cost control with respect to packing Material and inventory coordination with transporters. Ensure development is as per agreed timelines.

• Internal: Operations Team, Planning Team and Finance Team.

• External: Carriers, 3PL Service Providers and other vendors.

• Bachelors degree in supply chain management, Logistics, Business

• Administration, or related field.

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in logistics, supply chain management, or a related role with a focus on transportation and inventory management systems.

• Strong understanding of SAP, ERP systems, and data analytics tools. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Proven ability to manage cross-functional projects and teams.

• Effective communication and negotiation skills.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Tools: Excel, PowerPoint and Bi (optional).

• Prior TMS knowledge is an added advantage.

• Define and own the enterprise AI, ML strategy, building a multi-year roadmap aligned to digital and business transformation priorities

• Lead and scale a high-performing team of AI Engineers, MLOps Engineers, Data Engineers, Application Engineers and Data Scientists

• Architect and oversee development of enterprise-grade AI solutions including LLM-based systems, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), predictive ML models, decision intelligence platforms, and data-heavy applications

• Drive the full AI product lifecycle - opportunity discovery, business case definition, architecture design, development, deployment, monitoring, optimization and value realization

• Establish enterprise AI reference architectures, reusable frameworks, modular ML templates and standardized deployment patterns

• Ensure strong MLOps maturity including CI/CD for ML, model registry, automated retraining pipelines, monitoring for data/model drift, observability and governance

• Lead cloud-native AI platform strategy leveraging Azure / Databricks / AWS / GCP ecosystems with focus on scalability, resiliency and cost efficiency

• Define GenAI standards including prompt engineering frameworks, evaluation pipelines, guardrails, responsible AI controls and security compliance

• Partner with business leaders to translate complex operational challenges into scalable AI and data products with measurable ROI

• Define and track product KPIs including adoption, performance, latency, uptime, cost per inference, business value creation and productivity uplift

• Ensure enterprise-grade security, compliance, and responsible AI practices across all deployed solutions

• Drive continuous innovation by evaluating emerging AI technologies and integrating them into the enterprise ecosystem where strategically relevant

• Act as the single point of accountability for AI & Data product performance, delivery excellence and long-term platform scalability

• University degree (B.Tech / M.Tech / M.S.) in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline; MBA or equivalent business exposure is a plus

• 12+ years of experience across AI/ML, Data Platforms, or Enterprise Product Engineering, with 5+ years leading cross-functional technical teams

• Proven track record of building and scaling enterprise AI/ML products in production environments

• Deep understanding of:

• Machine Learning lifecycle and model governance

• LLMs, transformer architectures, RAG pipelines and prompt engineering strategies

• MLOps frameworks including model monitoring, drift detection, retraining and CI/CD for ML

• Modern data architectures (Databricks, Spark, ETL/ELT, Delta patterns, data orchestration)

• API-driven architectures and distributed systems design

• Strong exposure to cloud ecosystems (Azure, Databricks, AWS or GCP) and cost optimization strategies for large-scale AI workloads

• Experience designing scalable, secure and highly available enterprise data platforms

• Strong strategic thinking with ability to align AI investments to business value, operational efficiency and competitive advantage

• Demonstrated experience influencing senior stakeholders and translating technical trade-offs into business decisions

• Strong leadership and talent development capability, with experience building engineering culture and technical maturity

• Excellent communication skills with ability to operate across business and technical audiences

• Hands-on mindset with ability to dive deep into architecture discussions when required

• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-growth and transformation-driven environment

• Fluent in Business English

• Assist multiple SIS with day-to-day operational requirements.

• Track SIS-level KPIs.

• Support SIS Staff in achieving sales targets through improved service and selling skills.

• Analyze SIS performance and share insights with the Area Sales Manager.

• Ensure VM standards are implemented consistently across all SIS.

• Coordinate with VM team for execution of seasonal updates, campaigns, and product launches.

• Audit SIS display quality and provide corrective action plans.

• Assist SIS in stock replenishment, stock counts, and shrinkage control.

• Identify fast/slow-moving products & support stock balancing across stores.

• Report stock gaps and discrepancies to the Area Manager.

• Conduct on-floor training for new and existing Retail Associates.

• Reinforce product knowledge, customer service expectations, and selling skills.

• Support performance coaching for SIS staff.

• 2 to 5 years in retail operations.

• Experience handling multi-store/SIS/LFR or supervisory retail roles is an advantage.

• Field-based rolerequires daily/weekly travel across assigned stores.

• Flexible hours, including weekends and retail peak seasons.

• Graduate (Preferred: Business, Retail, Marketing).