BJ’s Whole­sale Club is all about val­ue for its mem­bers. Upon gain­ing exec­u­tive sup­port for their MDM pro­gram, they real­ized the need to deliv­er max­i­mum busi­ness val­ue by accel­er­at­ing the time-to-val­ue for new prod­uct and ven­dor intro­duc­tions. Learn how BJ’s began its MDM jour­ney, what’s next and how they are deliv­er­ing impact­ful busi­ness results along the way. In this ses­sion, you’ll hear about a real-life MDM jour­ney and take away best prac­tices for enhanc­ing your own company’s jour­ney.

Speak­er:

Kim­ber­ly Sharp, Direc­tor, Busi­ness Sys­tems, BJ’s Whole­sale Club

Kim­ber­ly began her pro­fes­sion­al career in finan­cial ser­vices work­ing for Boston-based Put­nam Invest­ments. In her role as a Region­al Mar­ket­ing Direc­tor she sup­port­ed finan­cial advi­sors in grow­ing their busi­ness­es.  After 6 years, she made the deci­sion to leave the world of finance to fol­low her pas­sion for all things retail and joined the BJ’s Whole­sale Club team in 2009.

She began her career at BJ’s work­ing in Sup­ply Chain and through a series of pro­mo­tions became a Cat­e­go­ry Mer­chant in the Food Divi­sion.  In 2013, Kim­ber­ly was asked to serve as a key team mem­ber on BJ’s largest IT project to date – an Enter­prise Resource Plan­ning (ERP) imple­men­ta­tion. Today, as the Direc­tor of Busi­ness Sys­tems, she leads a team charged with enhanc­ing the strate­gic capa­bil­i­ties of BJ’s through the trans­for­ma­tion of busi­ness process, infor­ma­tion man­age­ment and tech­ni­cal solutions.

Pas­sion­ate about increas­ing the oppor­tu­ni­ties for women in IT and Retail, Kim­ber­ly is an active mem­ber of the Net­work of Exec­u­tive Women and BJ’s Women’s Forum.  As a leader of the BJ’s Women’s Forum, Kim­ber­ly, facil­i­tates month­ly Strengths­Find­ers work­shops; assist­ing Team Mem­bers in devel­op­ing action plans that lever­age their new­ly dis­cov­ered strengths.

On Thurs­day evenings, you’ll like­ly find Kim­ber­ly at the Dai­ly Bread Food Pantry.  The Pantry is 100% vol­un­teer run and serves fam­i­lies in her home­town of Mil­ford, Mass­a­chu­setts.  She’s mom to 8‑year-old pug­gle, Lola, a for­ev­er Red Sox fan, ski­er, Jeep enthu­si­ast and avid trav­el­ing foodie.