Buying Assistant – Furniture – Landmark Group

This Buying Assistant – Furniture role sits within one of Landmark Group’s fastest-growing retail concepts, operating 51 stores across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Qatar with an extensive furniture and home offering. The role supports the buying team responsible for selecting, sourcing, and managing the furniture range carried across the brand’s stores in the region, working behind the commercial scenes that determine what actually ends up on the shop floor.

Day to day, this likely means supporting the buying team with supplier communication and order follow-up, tracking stock levels and sell-through data to flag what’s performing well or poorly, assisting with pricing and range planning analysis, coordinating samples and product information between suppliers and internal stakeholders, and handling the administrative detail that keeps a buying function running smoothly across a multi-country store footprint. Furniture buying specifically involves longer lead times and bulkier logistics than smaller retail categories, which adds its own planning complexity.

This suits someone with strong organizational and analytical skills who is genuinely interested in the commercial side of retail, understanding what sells, why, and how a range gets built, rather than the sales floor side of the business. Comfort with data and spreadsheets is important, as is the ability to coordinate communication between suppliers and internal teams accurately and on schedule.

For someone building a career in retail buying or merchandising, supporting a furniture range across a 51-store, multi-country footprint offers genuinely broad exposure to how retail buying works at a meaningful scale, a strong foundation for anyone aiming at a buyer or merchandiser role in the future.

Getting the furniture range right, the products, the pricing, the timing of stock arriving in-store, has a direct effect on sales across all 51 stores this brand operates, and the buying team's decisions are only as good as the data and coordination support behind them, which is exactly what this role provides. A buying assistant who tracks sell-through data accurately and flags underperforming or overperforming lines early gives the buying team the information it needs to adjust the range before a slow-moving product ties up capital in excess stock, or before a fast-selling product runs out and leaves money on the table. Furniture's longer lead times make this kind of early, accurate tracking especially important, since there's less room to react quickly compared to faster-moving retail categories, a late reorder in furniture can mean months of lost sales rather than weeks. Across a four-country footprint, consistent buying support also helps ensure the range makes commercial sense in each market's specific demand patterns, which protects the brand's growth as one of Landmark's fastest-expanding retail concepts.

Buying and merchandising is one of the most commercially interesting functions within retail, and supporting it for a furniture range specifically, with its longer lead times, bulkier logistics, and more considered customer purchase decisions, builds genuinely different and valuable skills compared to buying support in faster-moving categories like fashion or groceries. Working across a 51-store footprint spanning Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Qatar also provides broad exposure to how retail buying adapts to different markets within the same brand, which is valuable experience for anyone aiming at a regional buying or merchandising career rather than a single-market one. The analytical and supplier-coordination skills built in this role, reading sales data, managing supplier relationships, supporting range and pricing decisions, are the exact foundation that future buyers and merchandisers need, and this kind of assistant-level role is the standard entry point into that career path at most major retailers. Landmark Group's scale and this brand's rapid growth also mean genuine internal mobility, a buying assistant who performs well has a realistic path toward a junior buyer or assistant merchandiser role as the brand continues expanding across the region. For someone who finds the commercial puzzle of retail, what to stock, how much, at what price, genuinely interesting, this role offers a strong, practical entry point into that career.

• Strong organizational and administrative skills, with comfort managing multiple supplier and internal communications simultaneously
• Analytical ability to work with stock, sales, and pricing data using spreadsheets or retail systems
• Experience in retail, buying, merchandising, or a related commercial support role is an advantage
• Clear written and verbal communication skills for coordinating between suppliers and internal stakeholders
• Attention to detail, particularly important given furniture’s longer lead times and more complex logistics
• Interest in home, furniture, or interior retail categories specifically is a plus
• Ability to work across a multi-country store footprint’s varying requirements and timelines