Christopher Benz Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, WA, US

Bellevue, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, US

Provide leadership for program and project planning and execution. Advise clients on strategic thinking, risk management, change management, and continuous improvement

Redmond, Washington, US

Supporting Microsoft's global retail footprint through delivering system solutions to Merchandising and other Headquarter groups to support consumer expectations in both Microsoft Experience Centers and Online channels globally in an engineering TPM role. Toolset: Blue Yonder Category Management/Demand/Fulfillment, Azure, SAP, Azure DevOps.

Seattle, US

• Create a merchandising roadmap for retail and technology innovation and presented to C-Suite for executive buy-in. Interview, hire and support product owners against committed roadmap. Create a Source-to-Pay ecosystem.
• HR support for team of Product Owners delivering against Merchandising strategic roadmap
• Vendor relationship ownership with SAP Ariba, ensuring resources, commitments, break fixes and enhancement commitments are driven while partnering on REI future roadmap
• Define the approach and strategy through team workshops including scope management and change management
• Create resource model, business case and secure funding through executive leadership for program deliverables
• Monitor and provide resources for on-time, budget, risk analysis, and analytical cost modeling

Seattle, Washington, US

• Ownership of item management, price execution & enterprise distribution, purchase order functional areas. Scope of program ownership included Online, Nordstrom Full Line, Nordstrom Rack & Nordstrom Canada. Key.
• Continued engagement with Oracle’s development and product teams, to directly influence the Oracle Merchandising road map incorporating Nordstrom best practices
• Provided pre-project scoping and critical requirements to ensure technology solutions align to business initiatives in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Designed, created, and presented cross divisional engagement materials for next generation Off Price initiatives
• Influenced critical technical solutions and decisions for merchandising system design
• Full ownership of business requirements for areas of assigned responsibility in both waterfall and agile formats

Seattle, Washington, US

• Senior Business Analyst that supported Nordstrom’s first international expansion in company history. Defining scope, business requirements and implementation strategies for: purchase order, price execution & enterprise.
• Created and owned all requirements for Order Management, Price Management & End-to-End System Integration
• Drive development for upstream and downstream development teams during enterprise build activities for associated products
• Collaborated with developers to accurately scope and communicate issue impacts during development and test
• Ensured all engineering deliverables met business requirements and business sponsor expectations
• Communicated the status of responsible track to the Project Management team

Seattle, Washington, US

• Integral Business Analyst within the Production Support Team that was responsible for on boarding analysts, resolving the most impactful system issues, and managing small to medium development projects. Identified and.
• Led Nordstrom Physical Inventory (P.I.) for Technology for two years (two cycles per year)
• Implemented workflow improvements and technology gains for P.I., resulting in reductions of 35% processing time (identifying clear checkpoint owners, streamlined signoff & systematic thresholds) for a 6 year.
• Tracked business analyst work plans to ensure team deliverables are meeting Merch Business SLAs
• Provided training and support to business analysts for multiple enterprise systems

Bachelors Of Science, Communication Studies

Minor, Management Information Systems

Minor, Business Administration