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PUMA Sports India Private Limited is recognized among India's Best Companies to Work For 2019. Every year, Great Place to Work® identifies India's 100 Best Companies to Work For (with employee strength more than 500) through an objective and rigourous workplace culture assessment process.

PUMA Sports India Pvt. Ltd. is among India’s 10 Best Workplaces in Retail 2020. PUMA is one of the world’s leading sports brands, designing, developing, selling and marketing footwear, apparel and accessories. For over 65 years, PUMA has established a history of making fast product designs for the fastest athletes on the planet. PUMA offers performance and sport-inspired lifestyle products in categories such as Football, Cricket, Running, Training & Fitness, Golf, and Motorsports.

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1066 Employees

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Retail

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Why PUMA Sports India Pvt. Ltd. is a Great Place to Work?

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PUMA Sports India Private Limited has successfully created a Great Place to Work FOR ALL their employees as they have excelled on the 5 dimensions that are a hallmark of a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture™ – Credibility, Respect, Fairness, Pride and Camaraderie. In a rigorous assessment process conducted by the Great Place to Work® Institute, PUMA Sports India Private Limited met the minimum criteria on the Trust Index© Employee Survey, on the consistency of experience across all demographics and on the Culture Audit© People Practices Framework, to clear the first level i.e. getting Great Place to Work-Certified™.

Great Place to Work® is considered the ‘Gold Standard’ in workplace culture assessment and recognition.

As a certified organization, PUMA Sports India Private Limited became eligible to be considered among 'India's Best Companies to Work For 2019' – a list that features the 'Best of the Best’. The process of identifying India's Best Companies to Work For is based purely on the assessment findings and does not involve any jury or opinion based criteria.

Culture Snapshot
 High care and concern is evident in the way PUMA Sports India has set up things with lots of appreciation for the employee needs and creating an eco-system to enable the same. Transparency and openness are foundations. Lot of efforts have been put in to create a strong learning organization as well.

This page highlights more about the work culture of the organization, selected best people practices, the vision of the leadership and glimpses of employee life.

Read through to find out what makes PUMA Sports India Private Limited a Great Workplace.

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Inspiring

Style Cards

Puma encourages STYLE and SPORT. They have designed a way to inspire these 2 elements by introducing the Puma STYLE CARDS. These style cards are given to those who live the brand and are absolutely stylish. In house style ambassadors are given the right and duty to award all those employees who are stylish and present to them a Style card. This is like an award which inspires/encourages employees to live the brand and be stylish.

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Hiring

PUMA Includes

It is an initiative towards building a culture of Inclusion & Diversity across all functions and hierarchy. Under this, they partner with NGOs to provide employment to women from underprivileged backgrounds. Along with gender, they conduct special recruitment drives for differently abled employees who then work across their stores in different regions.

The unique thing about this company is the management team or the senior managers will ask you to better yourself and tell you to be more confident, smart, outspoken, make more friends and more importantly to be more open.

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Leaders Speak

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Abhishek Ganguly

Managing Director, PUMA Sports India Private Limited

1. What is your approach to making a Great Workplace?
A great workplace is formed by happy and motivated teams; therefore, I believe creating a people-centric organization is the key to success. Having achieved the No. 1 position, PUMA is a market leader in the Sports and Lifestyle segment. The brand is also the first to have attained profitability in the Indian market in just three years of its operations. We would not have achieved this without our people-led success story. And, we can’t continue to be a great brand with a fantastic business, unless we have an environment where people excel. There is a firm belief that happy teams create great business results to be happy about. It’s a cycle which one must try and get into.

2. What are the top 2 benefits you see of creating a Great Workplace?
There are multiple benefits to creating a great workplace. For one, people bring their best selves to work every day and that to me is one of the most important aspects of making PUMA a great workplace. In addition to this, it also creates a shared sense of purpose, driving innovation and creativity at every step of the process. It promotes constant learning, greater efficiencies, and higher retention that in turn positively impacts business results.

3. What are your top people priorities?
1. People-first approach: My key job at PUMA is to ensure that most people working here look forward to their Monday mornings. As mentioned before, I strongly believe that happy people make happy business. The solution lies in hiring the right people, who can quickly assimilate with the organization’s culture and having the best practices with regards to people, processes, and policies. And most important - constantly communicating and demonstrating the essence of the organization makes it a great workplace.

2. Peer-to-peer learning and development: At PUMA, we believe in creating cross-functional peer-to-peer learning opportunities through collaboration. That means creating a culture that thrives on shared-values, innovation, transparency, and risk-taking to help our employees learn and succeed. With this in mind, we launched a new initiative called Catalyst this year, which aims at driving innovation across the value chain. Through this, employees irrespective of their role or seniority can submit ideas on how to improve the way PUMA does business. At the end of the project, the winning team is rewarded with 10% of the incremental EBIT generated when their ideas are implemented.

3. Disrupting traditional leadership – We have never believed in traditional hierarchies. We look to empower and enable our employees to participate and co-own responsibilities. Directly contributing to the problem-solving process has proven to be far more rewarding and engaging for our teams.

4. How has your association with Great Place to Work® helped your business and strategic goals?
External benchmarking helps us understand where our organization stands on various parameters. While it highlights our strengths, it also gives us perspective on areas for development. As a result, we continue to reaffirm our focus on people-led policies and have introduced several initiatives like childcare and self-education policy. In addition to this, improving our ranking year after year has helped advance our employment brand perception in the industry as well.
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Manisha Agarwal

Head - Human Resources, PUMA Sports India Private Limited

1. What can your present and potential employees be sure of from a work culture perspective in the organization?
We have always believed that innovation is the back bone of a high growth organization. A culture that fosters innovation, creative thinking and freedom is something that one is sure to find in PUMA – today or tomorrow.

2. What, according to you, is a people challenge your industry is facing?
With the world around us getting digital by the minute, we have had a to change how we think and work, and have onboarded new skills, technology and a digital mindset. We have some great opportunities in the tech space today and one of the challenges for us today would be to communicate our tech strength and opportunities to prospective employees

3. How are you ensuring a consistent workplace experience FOR ALL your employees, irrespective of their role, age, gender, tenure etc. in the organization?
Our workplace experience is built on 3 key pillars – Engage, Learn and Retain – for all the 3 pillars, the opportunities that the employees are provided cut across the regular bars of role, age, gender etc. Eg, we have a program called Catalyst where employees work on cross functional projects in teams which are based on what thought leadership you bring to the table and not what your role or seniority is in the organization. Similarly there are many other platforms in place that promote an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone has the freedom to express, learn and grow.

4. How has your association with Great Place to Work® helped your business and strategic goals?
Our people are the key to us being the market leader in the country and our association with Great Place to Work® helps us reaffirm our focus on them. Our attrition numbers are coming down year on year, while our revenues are going up. Our stable employee population and the culture of continuous learning and growth has helped us create strong leaders internally which keeps us stay ahead of the competition. Our employees are extremely proud to be part of one of the best workplaces in the country.

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