Master Data Specialist (Material Master) - Remote

Job ID:  489712

Exempt

Oldcastle Infrastructure™, a CRH company, is the leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We’re more than just a manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, or plastic products. We’re a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, and more. With our network of more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,000 employees, we’re leading the industry with innovation and a safety-first mindset.

Data integrity is crucial to capturing the value of an ERP system. A Master Data Specialist will be responsible for understanding how data should be created, maintained, interconnected, and utilized within the new system to satisfy the key needs of all stakeholders.  During the ERP project, Master Data Stewards will play a crucial role in system validation and integration testing, by validating that business use cases are functioning as intended.  They will support business stakeholders and process leaders by analyzing, validating, and displaying data so it can be most useful in driving business results. 

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Material Master Data

• Data cleansing and creation

• Data standardization – vendor, customer, material

• Develop thorough understanding of future state ERP system design, understanding business implications and interdependencies

• Work with leadership team to make trade-off recommendations and provide value-added thought partnership

• Support monitoring of data integrity, process adherence, and issue resolution during ERP go-live

• Support development of an on-going training and user adoption model

ERP Design & Preparation

• Work with business process leads, key stakeholders, and end users to understand end-to-end, cross-functional data requirements

• Ensure data requirements are captured in business use cases

• Participate in master data discovery, extraction, cleansing, conversion, and loading

• Support data augmentation as needed

• Support data visualization as needed

• Understand data bridge to legacy systems and reports, to support stakeholders and users as they adopt the new system

ERP Testing & Deployment

• Participate in User Review Testing and execute business scenarios

• Identify defects and issues

• Support business users with data integrity issues and questions during ERP go-live & hyper-care

Required Skills / Education

• 3 years of master data and ERP system expertise, including:

  • Data extraction, cleansing and loading

  • Hands-on experience with SAP or part of another ERP implementation team

• 3 years of business process experience, including:

  • KPI reporting and data visualization to drive business results

  • Data quality monitoring; master data governance

  • Problem solving skills to identify and resolve the root cause of issues and creativity to drive continuous improvement

• Organized and accountable to ensure work is managed and deadlines are met

• Strong interpersonal skills

  • Ability to communicate in a simple, articulate, thoughtful manner

  • Innovative spirit to work cross-functionally in developing improvement ideas

  • A pleasant, likeable manner while accomplishing challenging results

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant discipline

What CRH Offers You

• Highly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs
• A diverse and inclusive culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion

About CRH

CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of large international organization.

If you’re up for a rewarding challenge, we invite you to take the first step and apply today! Once you click apply now, you will be brought to our official employment application. Please complete your online profile and it will be sent to the hiring manager. Our system allows you to view and track your status 24 hours a day. Thank you for your interest!

Oldcastle Infrastructure, a CRH Company, is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

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