Laurie (Alber) Benjamin , Cspo Email & Phone Number

Tampa, Florida, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Established a data management program from the ground up, defining strategy, roadmaps, and a scalable operational framework.
• Created a ‘hybrid’ data stewardship model with a centralized enterprise data stewardship team partnering across a stewardship community of domain stewards across the organization.
• On boarded and managed a team of enterprise data stewards dedicated to driving ownership and accountability of data throughout the enterprise.
• Defined a structured engagement model for prioritizing and managing multiple simultaneous enterprise business and technology transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate across business and engineering functions and domains to ensure data management strategy supports key initiatives across analytics, AI, finance, including migration to a new travel platform and data lake.
• Created a data literacy program and drove adoption of data management processes, and practices through training, documentation, and mentorship.

• Responsibility for defining finance transformation strategy for master data consolidation into a single SAP global instance and integrated SaaS solutions.
• Defined an enterprise data governance operational framework to warrant data quality, consistency, compliance, and protection across enterprise systems.
• Developed standardized operating procedures and implemented technologies for effective data management and enforcing integrity of source systems of record across RTR, PTP, OTC, and HCM.
• Created a roadmap and phased architecture to enable scalable technology solutions and maintain continuity with legacy applications.
• Formalized a Data Governance Council to drive collaboration across business units to align on key business and architectural decisions and enable data sharing platforms.
• Drove organizational agility by maintaining end-to-end transparency and traceability through maintaining process maps, data cataloging, and end-to-end data flows.

Knoxville, TN, US

• Provided guidance and a structured approach to implementing a Data Governance program including policies, processes, and best practices.
• Drafted and evangelized business proposal for MDM leveraging Profisee to enable a centralized data hub for Physician data and hierarchies.
• Designed data quality process model with data stewardship responsibilities.
• Led implementation of business glossary using MetaCenter.
• Provided guidance for migration of master data from legacy system to Snowflake and Tableau.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Served as liaison between Finance team and IT to enable SAP HANA for financial analytics.
• Designed proof of concept to consolidate metadata from SAP and other systems into Informatica EDC and integrate with Informatica Axon Business Glossary.
• Role concluded when Covid impacted the travel industry and caused a reprioritization of IT initiatives.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Warranted reliable transition of technology services after Canada Bottler business divestiture.
• Facilitated transition to new help desk and support providers.
• Ensured post-implementation support and steady state data quality processes across ERP, BI and SaaS applications.
• Drove complex root cause analysis, trouble shooting and issue resolution across distributed functions.
• Streamlined service management processes to improve incident handling.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Direct accountability to The Coca-Cola Company and Canada Bottler leadership to drive transition of the entire IT portfolio to a new modernized SAP technology suite and integrated SaaS solutions.
• Managed team responsible for delivery of multiple simultaneous projects with immoveable deadlines.
• Drove application rationalization, provided input to decommissioning strategy, conducted tool evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, and facilitated new software agreements,.
• Created strategy plan to leverage customer and product data hubs for master data migration.
• Gathered SAP localization requirements specific to Canadian business needs.
• Defined architecture for integration of SAP and non-SAP data sources into analytics platforms.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Partnered with Finance team to manage IT spend, considering strategic business priorities.
• Defined annual IT capital budget saving millions from initial plan through prioritization and elimination of waste and redundancy.
• Collaborated with PMO to define and manage project intake pipeline and delivery partner resourcing.
• Monitored project spend, SDLC compliance, and managed project roadblocks across the IT portfolio.
• Provided incremental program management support for initiatives at risk.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Direct accountability to The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola Bottler C-level to drive transition to a modernized digital framework.
• Recruited and supervised new Master Data Management core team of 20+ functional and technical SME’s dedicated to end-to-end delivery of the Informatica MDM solution.
• Managed across extended matrixed teams of 75+ business and IT stakeholders to ensure cross-functional alignment on timelines and deliverables.
• Defined strategy and roadmap for data consolidation across multiple lines of business and transition to a single source of truth for customer and product across enterprise applications and analytics platforms.
• Organized a Data Governance Council comprised of cross-functional leaders dedicated to maintaining alignment with strategic objectives, driving the data transformation roadmap, ensuring data quality, and protecting.
• Conducted analysis of data management tools; organized an evaluation team, created score-carding criteria, and facilitated vendor demos.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Direct accountability to The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola Bottler C-level to drive operational synergy and efficiency after business merger.
• Created new Master Data Management Center of Excellence team as a centralized shared IT service provider function to drive consistency of master data solutions across enterprise platforms.
• Implemented structured approach for stakeholder engagement within a highly matrixed environment.
• Drove end-to-end tactical design and delivery of master data across multiple simultaneous projects.
• Managed core team of 20+ with responsibility for delivering SAP and non-ERP master data solutions across customer, product, vendor, employee domains.
• Managed across extended matrixed teams of 75+ business and IT stakeholders to ensure cross-functional alignment on timelines and deliverables.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Cloned enterprise systems and migrated all Teradata applications to SAP BW platform to spin off European Bottler business.Stood up new SAP BW Data Warehouse implement SAP Vistex as new customer rebate solution: o Designed and delivered operational data source, data cubes, ETL, interfaces.o Created methodology to resolve master data inconsistencies across.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Created data warehouse for cross bottler and route to market analytics. Lead end-to-end design and delivery of solutions in Teradata: o Data collection, ETL, SQL, self-service reporting.o Customer segmentation capability for promotions, supply chain, and JDA planograms.o Demand forecast algorithms as input for inventory planning.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Created CCE bottler data warehouse and customer rebate solution.Lead the end-to-end implementation of multi-phased Customer Rebate solution:o VB / Oracle front-end captured complex customer agreements.o Unix and.
• Designed and delivered cost-to-serve metrics and gross profit reporting.

Masters Of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts, Sociology And Computer Science