Summer 2027 Intern

About the Role

Ross Stores, Inc. is hiring for Summer 2027 Interns in Buying, Planning, or Rotational roles at their New York Buying Office. This is a paid internship opportunity with an hourly rate of $22.00. The internship program runs from Monday, June 7th to Friday, July 30th, 2026.

Internship Tracks

• Assistant Buyer Intern
• Assistant Planner Intern
• Rotational Buying and Planning Intern

Key Responsibilities

• Gain hands-on experience supporting expert buying and planning teams.
• Learn what it takes to buy brands customers want at great values.
• Be challenged to generate meaningful business ideas.
• Present a final project to senior management.
• Experience company culture, build connections, and learn about yourself.
• Potential for future full-time opportunities upon successful completion.

Assistant Buyer Intern Responsibilities

• Perform administrative and operational functions supporting a designated buyer.
• Handle purchase order management, process markdowns, write orders, and administer changes and cancellations.
• Communicate internally and externally to ensure key shipments are delivered and processed.
• Analyze and interpret business issues, including monitoring regional merchandise reports and learning Open-to-Buy and stock analysis.
• Develop effective relationships with vendors to resolve problems and follow up on issues.
• Effectively utilize merchandising systems and understand warehouse processes.
• Prepare reporting for business interpretation.
• Display product knowledge by comparison shopping and market research.

Assistant Planner Intern Responsibilities

• Partner with manager to understand business opportunities by analyzing reports, resources, and systems.
• Interpret statistics and analysis.
• Recommend plans to save dollars.
• Ensure error scripts are run weekly and resolved.
• Partner with manager to recommend product flow due to seasonality and customer demographics.
• Review Pre-Season region monthly class plans based on key metrics.
• Support the creation of seasonal plans and develop plans that support corporate direction.
• Analyze current business performance to understand future impact and make recommendations.
• Understand concepts of recommending product classes requiring trending at region and store level.

Rotational Buying and Planning Intern Responsibilities

• Planning Rotation:
• Partner with manager to understand business opportunities by analyzing reports, resources, and systems.
• Interpret statistics and analysis.
• Ensure error scripts are run weekly and resolved.
• Partner with manager to recommend product flow for pre-season region/class plans due to seasonality and customer demographics.
• Analyze in-season region/class performance to understand future impact and make recommendations.
• Buying Rotation:
• Perform administrative and operational functions supporting a designated buyer.
• Communicate internally and externally to ensure business milestones are met.
• Analyze and interpret business issues, including monitoring regional merchandise reports and learning Open-to-Buy and stock analysis.
• Use merchandising business systems and reporting to interpret key metrics.
• Develop effective relationships with vendors to resolve problems and follow up on issues.
• Display product knowledge through comparison shopping and market research.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Proficient in MS Excel, MS Outlook, and familiar with MS Office.

Qualifications

• A desire to learn, grow, and engage.
• A team player attitude, displaying resilience and flexibility.
• Curiosity that drives for results.
• A passion for product and an interest in weaving a story out of numbers.
• Organized and attentive to detail.
• Strong communicator.
• Understanding of retail math and strong analytical skills.
• Graduation between August 2027 – May 2028.
• Availability to work the full program, Monday – Friday, during traditional business hours.