Michael Benz

Sr. Director, IT SAP S4 Delivery Lead

United States

About

Experience

  • PepsiCo (20 yrs 4 mos)
    • Sr. Director, IT SAP S4 Delivery Lead
      Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

      Accountable to deliver the SAP S4 functional solution for PepsiCo Concentrate US, Quaker, Gatorade and Corporate.

    • Sr. Director, Global Digital Planning - IT Delivery Lead
      Jan 2022 - Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Leading the development and delivery of the North American Financial Planning and Analytics solution for PBNA and PFNA. Partnering with the Global Digital Planning Team (MOSAIC), as the IT Delivery Lead for the program, accountable for deploying and scaling the TM1 IBM Planning Analytics solution.

    • Director, North America Value Chain Transformation
      Jan 2021 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr

      Developed strategic roadmap to optimize and customize the Order to Cash Value Chain to enable new capabilities for the North America business units. Lead effort to develop inventory of order capture models across North America, leveraging a global template to model for beverages and foods. Created plans, timelines, and resources required to execute work in accordance with PepsiCo standards. Ensured an end to end strategy was in place and being governed across dependent initiatives for future capabilities and processes. Lead daily and weekly forums with project and business teams clarifying NA wide strategy and brokering business decisions across the business units. Developed robust ways of working within NAVCT and other dependent project teams to ensure an efficient and formally governance model was executed. Played a key role as point of contact for NA VCT leadership team on order to cash and PGT matters.

  • Senior Technical Analyst at Hewlett-Packard
    Nov 2000 - Mar 2006 · 5 yrs 5 mos

    Development Team Lead/Technical Expert -Development Lead for the technical architecture of SAP customer master platform for an $80 billion company with over 1 million customer data records. -Managed daily tasks of 7 offshore and 2 onshore resources holding weekly team meetings and bi-weekly 1:1 meetings with each direct report -Oversaw 7 offshore employees successfully leading team in building web technologies in SAP using Netweaver for customer data maintenance front-end to be utilized by over 1500 employees. -Reviewed design proposals and evaluated design impact on technical solution for all customer master data. -Analyzed interface requirements and prepared detailed documentation for development handoff. -Managed the design and implementation of volume direct data migrations from legacy systems to SAP R/3. -Prepared and presented detailed documentation to customers discussing technical solutions into easy to understand business terms. -Consulted with users to identify new development requirements, prepared design documents and presented application design to business leads for review and signoff. -Trained 30 team members and business partners on SAP functionality for customer administration using online and hands on tutorials.

  • SAP Configuration Specialist at Agilent Technologies
    Jan 2000 - Oct 2000 · 10 mos

    SD Configuration Lead -Managed all customer master configuration requirements to validate and maintain standardized configuration practices. -Created standards for configuration documentation for master data utilized by business teams. -Configured all customer master changes including customer account groups, partner functions, field layout, and customer hierarchies. Testing Lead: Jan. 2000 – Mar. 2000 -Worked with business users to test toolset enhancements for order management invoicing. -Designed test cases and tools utilized by core business teams for testing order management processes.