Monday, August 29, 2011

Job Vacancy Operations Executive PUMA Sports Goods August-September 2011

Founded in 1948, PUMA's mission is to become the most desirable sportlifestyle company and to reinforce its position as one of the leading multi-category sportlifestyle brands. By relentlessly innovating to address the real needs of our consumers, by creating new markets, by pushing the boundaries and defining the culture of sportlifestyle we have established our unique brand positioning.

At PUMA we fuel an open, entrepreneurial corporate environment that strongly supports innovative ideas from every corner of the company. We foster our unique company values: passion, openness, selfbelief and entrepreneurship.

And maybe you will soon be part of our team: If the profile correlates to your background and experience, please submit your detailed application.
   
Operations Executive
(Selangor)

Responsibilities:
To support the field organization in centralized coordination of operational and customer service functions and where designated, to localize initiatives and manage store operations. Carry out business activities that support PUMA’s core values, objectives and promote PUMA brand standards.

Essential Functions:
The essential duties and responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to :

  • Ensuring stores consistently achieve or exceeds sales, KPIs and profitability.
  • Manages all operational aspects of store openings, closings, relocation and upgrades to ensure smooth implementation and budgets and timelines are met.
  • Manage the localization of policies and procedures including tailoring policies and procedures to meet local needs, adding additional local policies and procedures and translation of material to local language.
  • Support field training programs and rollout of training initiatives.
  • Manage all operational aspects of in-store procedures.
  • Manage country loss prevention standards to support the field in achieving shrink goals and data integrity.
  • Manage operational aspects of stores inventory including setting in-store shipment processes, coordinating country inventory counts and data integrity.

Requirements:
  • Knowledge, skills and abilities
  • Leadership
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills including English at a business level
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Strong organizational and time management skills
  • Analytical skills
  • PC skills – MS- office, Lotus Notes, Internet

Minimum Education Level :
  • Ideally, literacy and numeric qualifications at a high school level are required.

Minimum Experience Level :
  • Two years of management experience in a focused, customer service oriented retail environment (preferably apparel/footwear)
  • Experience managing multiple stores is required

Physical requirements :
  • Travel to stores, appropriate meetings and events.

Interested applicants please write-in to the following address with full resume stating working experience and expected salary with recent passport-sized photograph (n.r.) or apply on-line by sending your application directly to hr.malaysia@puma.com

Attention: Human Resources Department
PUMA Sports Goods Sdn. Bhd. (formerly known as Generation Wave Sdn. Bhd.)
Lot 691 Kompleks Hamodal 5
Jalan Lagoon Selatan
Off Jalan Kewajipan
47500 Subang Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan.
Malaysia
Tel: +(6)03-5123 2668
Fax: +(6)03-5636 2769