Merchant Kids & Baby Apparel

Bass Pro Shops•Springfield, MO

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This is a brand-building role for a merchant who obsesses over product, knows the kids customer cold, and believes that great assortments tell a story. We're building something meaningful inside one of America's most iconic retail brands — a kids and baby apparel business that reflects the same quality, intention, and brand conviction that Bass Pro Shops brings to everything it does. We need a merchant who's done this before and wants to own it. You'll lead the full product cycle for Kids and Baby — from brand strategy and trend identification through product development, assortment architecture, pricing, and in-season management. You'll develop proprietary product that looks and feels like it belongs in the best specialty kids retailers in the country, and you'll partner cross-functionally with design, PD, planning, marketing, and creative to bring it to life across retail, digital, and catalog. You'll also own the financial performance of your business. That means building and managing your OTB in close partnership with Merchandise Planning, developing category financial plans that support overall company goals, and making sharp in-season decisions on inventory, markdowns, and promotional activity to maximize productivity and profitability. The best merchants here are as comfortable in a financial review as they are in a product line review — and they move fluidly between both. This role has real authority. You'll set the vision, build the assortment, negotiate with vendors, and own the results.

Requirements

A merchant first. You think in terms of customer, product, and brand before you think in terms of spreadsheets — but you can read a financial plan as fluently as you can read a trend board.
Grew up in specialty — Children's Place, Gap Kids, Carter's, or similar — and you know what it means to build a kids brand with real point of view.
Can move from big-picture brand strategy to SKU-level detail without losing altitude.
Strong instincts for trend, color, and fit — and the analytical chops to back your decisions with data.
Developed proprietary product and understand the full development cycle from concept to floor.
Understand OTB management, open-to-buy discipline, and how to partner with planning to build a financially sound assortment.
Lead with conviction, collaborate naturally, and make your team better.
5+ years in apparel merchandising, ideally with kids or baby specialty experience.

Responsibilities

Lead the full product cycle for Kids and Baby — from brand strategy and trend identification through product development, assortment architecture, pricing, and in-season management.
Develop proprietary product that looks and feels like it belongs in the best specialty kids retailers in the country.
Partner cross-functionally with design, PD, planning, marketing, and creative to bring it to life across retail, digital, and catalog.
Own the financial performance of your business.
Build and manage your OTB in close partnership with Merchandise Planning.
Develop category financial plans that support overall company goals.
Make sharp in-season decisions on inventory, markdowns, and promotional activity to maximize productivity and profitability.
Set the vision, build the assortment, negotiate with vendors, and own the results.

Benefits

Discounts on retail merchandise, our restaurants, world-class resorts and conservation attractions!
Medical
Dental
Vision
Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Account
Voluntary benefits
401k Retirement Savings
Paid holidays
Paid vacation
Paid sick time
Bass Pro Cares Fund