KERRI GOOGE
Leeds,LS4
Summary
Detail-oriented professional experienced in fast-paced commercial environments, coordinating multiple priorities and fostering strong relationships with stakeholders. Skilled in managing end-to-end projects, maintaining accurate records, meeting competing deadlines, and efficiently resolving issues while collaborating across teams.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work history
Buyer/Buying Manager
ASDA
Leeds
2024.03 - 2026.08
- Own full departmental P&L category responsibility of £120M improving profit margins by 2% through supplier negotiations, sku rationalisation and product development.
- End-to-end project management (e.g. range build) from start to finish, coordinating suppliers, internal stakeholders and business needstates while ensuring key requirements and deadlines are met.
- Manage multiple priorities across a fast-paced commercial area, ensuring key activities, deadlines and seasonal launches are delivered effectively and in time with the critical path.
- Strong use of Nielsen, Quantium, SAP Ariba, Power BI and Mintec to make commercial opportunities, monitor market trends and support data-driven informed buying decisions.
- Develop and deliver Joint Business Plans (JBPs) with key suppliers, aligning commercial objectives, promotional activity, innovation, and growth opportunities.
- Growing and building strong working supplier and vendor relationships to support day-to-day business.
- Lead internal projects like Eyes & Ears and MLOR restrictions for Total Bakery & Convenience Teams.
- Worked alongside and trained Trading Assistant with day to day admin tasks like promotional/funding trackers, cost price changes ect.
- With keen attention to detail, reviewed long-term vendor agreements and invoices for discrepancies to mutually resolve and come up with best soloution.
Trading Assistant - World Foods
ASDA
2023.03 - 2024.03
- Trained as a buyer within World Health & Beauty, maintaining all areas of the buyer need within this.
- Working alongside and developing relationships with 80+ suppliers, supporting on training on new systems, promotional planning and strategy needs.
- Successfully and proactively maintained admin for over 1500 lines within multiple business areas. Managing funding, pricing, article management and day to day business needs efficiently.
- Training over 6 new trading assistants and supporting other buying teams where needed while they were training. Organising weekly catch-ups to check in on training and answer any questions
- Analysed supplier invoices to ensure accuracy of billing and resolved discrepancies promptly. Supported with fixing duplciated funding, incorrect billing ect and making sure the correct invoices were closed/re-raised.
- Followed buyer directives around key events like Eid and Ramadan to support with quickly resolving issues with deliveries, pricing or item quality.
Financial Operations Advisor
Morrisons
2022.11 - 2023.03
- Processing NLFs, double-checking all information, and pushing back to buying teams when more information is needed.
- Carefully going through all promotional nominations so that they are accurately loaded to the supplier sign-off system.
- Running complex reports to flag any duplication or admin errors that may stop promotions from being run accurately in store.
- Worked closely with buying teams to ensure everything was executed accurately. Collaborated with overseas team members to achieve target results.
Trainee Buyer
SikSilk
2022.05 - 2022.10
Education
Foundation Diploma - Fashion & Textiles
Ravensbourne University
London 2018.01 -
A-Levels - Maths, English
Wanstead High
London 2016.01 -
Skills
- Contract agreement understanding
- Advanced Excel, Word, Outlook and Powerpoint Skills
- Financial modelling
- Stakeholder engagement capability
- Negotiating techniques
- Commodity pricing analysis
- Knowledge of sap software
- Product lifecycle awareness
- Trend forecasting
References
Available upon request.
Timeline
Buyer/Buying Manager
ASDA
2024.03 - 2026.08
Trading Assistant - World Foods
ASDA
2023.03 - 2024.03
Financial Operations Advisor
Morrisons
2022.11 - 2023.03
Trainee Buyer
SikSilk
2022.05 - 2022.10
Foundation Diploma - Fashion & Textiles
Ravensbourne University
2018.01 -
A-Levels - Maths, English
Wanstead High
2016.01 -