PEOPLE@PUMA

As a company, we can only reach our goals when we have the right people. We depend on finding, connecting, and developing the right talent, thereby ensuring PUMA´s future growth.

Competing for the best talent on the market, our intention is to raise awareness of PUMA as a top employer that offers challenging roles in international teams, while providing professional talent management and great development ­opportunities.

Diversity: Ensuring a diverse and inclusive environment

PUMA’s team spirit thrives on the diversity of people with various skills, backgrounds, and experiences. PUMA’s unique company culture reflects, embraces, and respects the individuality of every single person, while providing the ­opportunity for all employees to achieve their full potential. This is the key to creating effective and competitive teams that drive forward innovation and ­success. At our headquarters in Herzogenaurach alone, we employ people from 59 different nationalities.

Based on this belief, we committed ourselves to the PUMA Code of Ethics (2005) and to our Diversity Charter (2010) to ensure a fair work environment and equal opportunities for all PUMA employees, regardless of their gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion, disability, age, or sexual orientation.

Last year, 86% of our employees worldwide held permanent contracts, while 41% of our people were covered by a collective bargaining ­agreement.

Another strength of our teams lies in the well-balanced gender distribution: Across all PUMA locations, the male to female ratio is 52 percent to 48%, a stable tendency over the past years. This shows we provide a work environment equally attractive to women and men.

At PUMA, we promote gender balance at all management levels. We continue our efforts to raise the proportion of women across all levels of management. In 2018, the groupwide percentage of women in management positions amounted to 40%.

Until the end of October 2021, we want to achieve an even more ambitious goal: We aim to have at least 30% of women on the Supervisory Board, 20% on the Management Board, while having 30% and 40% of women at the two management levels below the Management Board respectively.

Additionally, we offer women specific training and access to inspirational networks. The interaction with experienced female executives should encourage our female employees to aspire to leadership positions within the Group.

Talent management: Finding and fostering the best people

Our integrated and consistent talent management drives our performance and development culture. We identify and promote talent within teams and across functions, regardless of their job level.

This includes offering a wide range of tailored trainings to accelerate professional development towards becoming a leader, providing the required skills to manage teams.

Having implemented systematic talent conferences, we assess the entire PUMA workforce every year. Such conferences are conducted worldwide, ­involving all levels of management, up to and including the Management Board.

Employees are being evaluated on criteria such as individual performance and competencies, potential, ambition, career progression, and mobility. The targeted analysis of our employees’ profiles allows us not only to prepare individual development plans, but also to match internal talent with vacancies, helping us to find potential successors within the company. This process has a proven track record of attractive career and development opportunities for our employees and efficient succession planning.

Speed Up / Speed Up2

With Speed Up and Speed Up2 we provide personal development programs for employees, with the aim of preparing selected talent for the next step in their careers. Designed for upcoming or seasoned leaders, both programs offer targeted training, consisting of interdisciplinary projects and tasks, mentoring and coaching, as well as job rotations. An additional component of the Speed Up programs lies in raising the participants’ visibility at top management level, while encouraging them to build cross-functional networks.

Learning: Empowering lifelong learning

At PUMA, learning is not only part of our culture, but is a key part of our strategy  to constantly train our people and offer them a development path. We support our employees in their lifelong learning, which has become a necessity in a world that changes at an ever-increasing pace.

Our efforts in learning and training include the integration of Future Champions into our workforce, along with the personal development of our employees and managers.

This way we ensure we have the right competencies available today as well as tomorrow.

Future Champions

Identifying talent at a very early stage is key to fostering the next generation of employees that will contribute to PUMA’s future success.

In this context, we offer high school graduates and students a multitude of options to start a career in a challenging international work environment.

To spot our Future Champions, we cooperate with a large range of universities and schools at an international level. Throughout the year, PUMA hosts various events specially designed for students at our international headquarters and abroad.