Director, Sourcing; Kids Apparel and Hardgoods

Our values start with our people, join a team that values you!

Bring your talents to Ross, our leading off-price retail chain with over 2,200 stores, and a strong track record of success and growth. Our focus has always been bringing our customers a constant stream of high-quality brands and on-trend merchandise at extraordinary savings. All while providing a fun and exciting treasure hunt experience.

As part of our team, you will experience:

• Success
  . Our winning team pursues excellence while learning and evolving
• Career growth
  . We develop industry leading talent because Ross grows when our people grow
• Teamwork
  . We work together to solve the hard problems and find the right solution
• Our commitment to Diversity, Equality & Inclusion, and our community. We celebrate the backgrounds, identities, and ideas of those who work and shop with us because our differences make us stronger. We strive to be a positive force in our community.

Our Corporate headquarters are in Dublin, CA, we have 3 buying offices in key markets in New York City, Los Angeles, and Boston, and 8 distribution centers nationwide. With 2025 revenues of $22.8 billion, we are a Fortune 500 company who is committed to providing an inclusive work environment with continuous learning opportunities and development for our teams.

The Sourcing Director, Kids is responsible for leading the end-to-end process, from initial concept through production and delivery. This role drives product innovation, assortment vision, cost optimization, quality, and supplier performance while ensuring alignment with the overall merchant business strategy and financial objectives. The Sourcing Director manages agents, vendors, and factories to drive a holistic sourcing strategy for a group of product categories.

The Director will identify appropriate product and material for development, based on merchant business needs and trends that meet cost, lead time requirements and quality. The Director will provide Merchant education to deepen sourcing and manufacturing knowledge. The Director will have direct reports at Associate Sourcing Manager or Manager level.

• Drives sourcing strategy (including agent, vendor, COO, and cost strategies) to meet business needs, leverage market conditions, and mitigate risks. Monitors in-season placements against seasonal strategic sourcing goals.
• Development of product based on merchant business strategy: considering trend, customer needs, and analysis of product performance.
• Identifies new resources to address merchant business needs: supply gaps/whitespace, novelty, newness, breadth, diversity and value, within context of sourcing strategy.
• Grows and manages effective agent and vendor partnerships with keen understanding of vendor, country and cost capabilities. Assesses vendors’ core capabilities and manufacturing efficiencies to build an effective vendor matrix.
• Develops existing vendors and resources new vendors based on business needs and/or changes in country and/or vendor capability and performance. Partners with teams on onboarding new suppliers/countries/factories.
• Allocates to vendors based on product performance and production performance – based on SVP / GVP COO targets and strategies.
• Partners with merchants to develop products that align with customer needs, market trends and business analysis.
• Review weekly business performance, assessing sales, turn, sell through and margin performance. Leverage this information to inform development decisions and impact what’s in the production pipeline, where needed.
• Demonstrates a critical eye for product and has strong experience developing raw materials and programs that fit Ross cost structure.
• Establishes and…