Matthew Benton

PRO PROJECT PLANNING (9/23-Current)

• Defined, Designed, Developed & Integrated Project Commons with over ten applications and backend clients within 12 months of joining the team (currently trending to exceed target goal of $263k in sales by 85% within the first year).
• Onboarded the entire OST & managed accounts to Projects piloting in-store PASA's consistent project experience frontend, with realtime data updates across online, ProAssist, Salesforce, and Order Up.
• Bectran integration & deployment of Project Lines of Credit for the first time in The Home Depot's history, with a target goal of over $200k within the first year.
• Responsible for product Definition, Discovery, and vision for prioritized work, staying multiple quarters ahead of planned development.
• Complete research, interviews, workshops, readouts to leadership, milestone updates, and cultivate an environment of familiarity & understanding for the core & cross functional teams responsible for development.
• Follow, execute, and live the five D's product principles.
• Mentored Product Managers in effective project management techniques and industry best practices.

MERCHANDISING, PRICE ENGINE (4/22-9/23)

• Retirement of ESVS & Discount Engine with the development & deployment of Price Engine.
• Elimination of $30M+ in incremental markdowns for Pro transactions with applied markdown guardrails to ensure profitability.
• Created an automated pricing system for the discount codes RC30/39 to allow for less confusion between PARs / PAEs and their customers.
• Deployed new Manual Review process to provide a seamless in-store customer and in-store associate experience when submitting high risk bids for review with 30% reduction in process time.
• Automation of 90% of bids flowing through Auto-VPP
  (-83%).
• Reduce time to update VPP ‘Geo’ settings from 1 hour to 10 minutes (-85%).
• Integrated with AAFES to enable 1% appliance discount, unlocking $82.5M YoY.
• Introduced the first version of Customer Specific Pricing which allows customers to lock in a guaranteed price for specific SKU's for a set amount of time.

• Responsible for the overall product strategy and roadmap of the SaaS-based Workforce Management platform.
• Navigated the merging of two companies & a full platform integration after being acquired by Movista in 2019.
• Increased customer adoption from 65% to 80% platform utilization by identifying gaps in customer needs by developing innovative product features & hands on training.
• Improved user experience by collaborating closely with design and development teams on UI/UX enhancements.
• Deep understanding of industry pain points to prioritize development of impactful revenue driving solutions.
• Mine and analyze platform user data to interpret user demographics, behaviors, feature usage, and tracking metrics tied to quarterly KPI's
• Implemented product methodologies & product documentation for consistency across the product team.
• Partnered with sales team in procurement of new customers and overseeing post sales implementation.
• Communicated effectively with company leadership, team members, and customers to deliver updates on project milestones and deadlines.

• Manager of a team of system administrators, engineers, & developers overseeing all organizational platforms utilized by Recruiters, Back Office teams, and over 8,000 field employees nationwide.
• Implement & manage underlying data infrastructure and software applications including HR, Payroll, Field Teams, Finance, Accounting, and all cross-functional integrations.
• Support the technology backbone of operations for outside sales teams of over 8,000 field associates, visiting over 50 retailers on behalf of many Fortune 500 companies
• Managed balanced team’s backlog, prioritization, and bandwidth allocation
• Partner with retailers and manufacturers from various industries to define meaningful KPI’s, ROI metrics, and sales goals.
• Manage BI Team, including development of multi-dimensional data marts for self-serve reporting models in Azure environment.
• Meet with C-Level stakeholders & Directors to provide the product vision and the project plans to achieve those goals.
• Provide data driven stories using reporting & visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, PowerPivot, and SSRS