Executive Assistant – Landmark Group

Landmark Group’s diversified retail and hospitality operations, including brands like STYLI, its digital-first fast fashion label launched in Saudi Arabia in 2019, require senior leaders to be supported by capable Executive Assistants who can manage complex schedules and keep the details of a busy leadership role running smoothly. This role provides that support, likely to a senior executive within one of the group’s business units or brands.

The day-to-day work includes managing calendars and scheduling across multiple time zones and priorities, coordinating travel arrangements, preparing meeting materials and following up on action items, and acting as a gatekeeper and point of contact between the executive and internal or external stakeholders. Because the executive being supported likely operates across a diversified, multi-brand business, this role often requires understanding enough about the broader organization to prioritize effectively and represent the executive’s interests accurately in their absence.

Discretion and judgment are essential: Executive Assistants are regularly exposed to sensitive business information and need to handle it with complete confidentiality, while also making independent decisions about what warrants the executive’s immediate attention versus what can wait or be delegated.

This suits an experienced Executive Assistant with strong organizational skills, discretion, and the ability to anticipate a senior leader’s needs, who is comfortable operating within a large, fast-paced retail and fashion group.

A senior executive's time is one of the scarcest and most valuable resources in a large organization, and an Executive Assistant who manages that time well, protecting it from low-value distractions while making sure genuinely important matters get immediate attention, has an outsized multiplier effect on that executive's overall effectiveness. Poor calendar management, missed follow-ups, or mishandled confidential information can create real business consequences: a missed meeting with an important partner, a leaked piece of sensitive strategy information, or an executive who's perpetually reactive rather than focused on priorities because their time isn't being managed well. Because this role often sits at the center of communication flow between the executive and both internal teams and external stakeholders, the Executive Assistant's judgment about what to escalate, delay, or delegate directly shapes how efficiently decisions get made across the parts of the organization that executive oversees. In a diversified, fast-moving group like Landmark, where a senior leader may be juggling priorities across multiple brands or business units, a highly capable Executive Assistant is what allows that leader to operate at the pace the business actually requires, rather than being bottlenecked by administrative overhead.

Working as an Executive Assistant to a senior leader provides an unusually broad, close-up view of how a business actually operates at the top, exposure to strategic priorities, cross-functional dynamics, and decision-making processes that most roles at a similar level of seniority don't offer. That vantage point builds business acumen and organizational awareness that compounds significantly over time, often faster than in a narrower functional role. The discretion, judgment, and anticipatory thinking required in this role are also highly valued, transferable skills: learning to make sound decisions on someone else's behalf, under time pressure and with incomplete information, builds a kind of practical judgment that's difficult to develop any other way. Strong Executive Assistants often become trusted advisors in their own right, with influence that extends well beyond pure administrative support. Being part of a large, diversified group like Landmark, spanning fashion, retail, and hospitality, also provides exposure to how a genuinely complex, multi-brand business is run, which is valuable context for anyone eventually aiming at a business operations, chief of staff, or general management career path. People who excel as Executive Assistants to senior leaders often progress into Chief of Staff, Business Manager, or broader operations roles, using the trust and organizational insight built in this position as a genuine springboard.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; prior Executive Assistant or senior administrative experience required
• Excellent organizational and calendar management skills, including across multiple time zones
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for internal and external stakeholder coordination
• High level of discretion and ability to handle confidential information appropriately
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office or equivalent productivity tools
• Ability to anticipate needs and prioritize independently on behalf of a senior executive
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, retail or fashion business environment