Executive – Landmark Group

Landmark Group’s buying function decides which products actually make it onto shelves across its retail brands, and this Executive role provides the analytical and coordination support that keeps that process running smoothly. Working closely with Buyers and Assistant Buyers, this is a role focused on the operational backbone of merchandising — the planning, coordination, and follow-through that turns a buying decision into product actually landing in stores on time.

Expect daily work centred on preparing sales and stock plans in conjunction with buyers, liaising with internal teams (merchandise planners, stores) and external suppliers to track order status, and helping resolve the inevitable hiccups — a delayed shipment, a stock allocation question, a supplier query — that come up in any buying cycle. It’s detail-heavy work where accuracy and follow-through directly determine whether stores actually get what they’re supposed to, when they’re supposed to.

This suits someone organized and numerate who enjoys the coordination side of retail — comfortable juggling supplier communications, internal reporting, and planning spreadsheets, and genuinely interested in how merchandising decisions get turned into real inventory on real shelves.

Merchandising success in retail depends as much on disciplined execution as it does on good buying judgment — a great product selection means nothing if stock plans are wrong, supplier communication breaks down, or store allocation gets mishandled, and this Executive role is exactly where that execution discipline lives. Accurate sales and stock planning directly affects whether stores have the right inventory at the right time, which shows up in sell-through rates, markdown levels, and ultimately category profitability across Landmark's brands. Because the role sits at the coordination point between buyers, planners, stores, and suppliers, catching issues early here — a supplier running late, a stock allocation error — prevents much costlier problems downstream, like empty shelves during peak trading or excess stock that has to be marked down. Across a retail group as large as Landmark, with multiple brands and a large supplier base, having reliable execution support at this level is what allows buyers and planners to focus on strategic decisions rather than getting pulled into every operational detail themselves.

This role is a well-established entry point into a buying or merchandising career, giving direct exposure to how sales and stock planning actually works, how supplier relationships are managed, and how a product's journey from selection to shelf is coordinated — foundational knowledge for anyone aiming at a future Buyer or Merchandise Planner role. The Excel and planning discipline built here also transfers well into broader retail operations, supply chain, or category management careers. Within a large group like Landmark, which operates numerous retail brands across categories, strong performers in this kind of support role often have realistic paths into Assistant Buyer or planning roles as they build category knowledge and internal relationships. For anyone genuinely interested in the commercial side of retail — the buying and merchandising decisions that determine what actually shows up in stores — this kind of coordination-focused role offers hands-on exposure to that world earlier in a career than many alternative entry points would. It's also worth noting that people who master the operational side of buying early tend to become noticeably stronger buyers later, since they already understand exactly where a buying decision can go wrong in execution. That grounded, execution-first understanding of buying is something senior merchandisers consistently say they wish more people had before stepping into the role.

• Prior experience in a buying, merchandising, or retail planning support role is an advantage
• Strong Excel skills and comfort building or maintaining sales and stock plans
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Good communication skills for liaising with buyers, planners, stores, and suppliers
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Retail Management, or a related field
• Comfort working to deadlines within a buying cycle
• Basic understanding of retail merchandising principles