Procurement Master Data Specialist - Atlanta, GA

 

 

Job ID:  488861
 

CRH is a leading global diversified building materials group, employing over 75,800 people at more than 3,160 locations in 29 countries. CRH is the leading building materials company in North America and the world. We manufacture and distribute a diverse range of superior building materials, products, and solutions, which are used extensively in construction projects of all sizes. 

 

 

Position Overview:  Procurement Master Data Specialist

 

Deliver to One-CRH Vision: Drive, Implementation of Data Strategy to drive better Procurement Decisions

 

The Procurement Master Data Specialist will be responsible for supporting the implementation, documentation, execution and continuously improvement of the processes of accurate data entry and maintenance in alignment with CRH procurement & Category definitions and strategy. Ensuring consistency with business objectives, our many local ERPs as well as (global and regional) IT strategy and its continuous improvement across data quality & automation. Collaborate with local procurement teams, Source System administrators & Master Data Stewards to deliver the spend data quality that meets the expectations of Group Procurement and our key stakeholders and internal customers. The data management areas maintained include monitoring Master Data Quality, Spend Categorization levels, Data relevancy, Automation & Timely onboarding of data sources, Standardization & Data enrichment of data, drive implementation of new process, systems & Integrations.

 

This position is currently a Hybrid role, working two days or more in the Atlanta, GA Headquarters.

 

 

Key Responsibilities

 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

 

Data Acquisition & On-boarding: Key Activities

 

• On-board & automate data acquisition, quality check and validation for the CRH ERP Systems
• Strive towards on-time data upload on a consistent basis: +95% by WD1, 98% by WD5
• Understand Technology and data structure of the Procurement Data warehouse (Current & Future)
• Ability to drive increasing levels of Automation of Data Acquisition in collaboration with ERP system administrators to reduce spend publish cycle.
• Support successful implementations & integration to new systems & processes including On-boarding of new/acquired spend sources: e, g Coupa, Ariba & other systems.
• Actively engaging with IT teams/ PDW vendor to drive better system efficiency.
• Ensure system updates are completed for all Master Data Fields: Including and not limited to Org Structure, Category Tree updates, Sites IDs
• Continuous improvement of Data schema, Data Quality Validation (Financial and operational) & data enrichment to ensure data quality and consistency.
• Ongoing data clean up and entry of additional data, monitor master data quality.
• Train & assist End Users with Navigating, Creating, & maintaining Reports in the PDW and advise on best practices on optimal usage: Maximize user on-boarding to PDW to drive towards to drive towards more data driven culture.
• Ability to work with Extract, Transform & Load methodology and tools to drive stakeholder satisfaction.
• Create and maintain user tables, segmentation, item groups, item categories etc. Document and maintain Process Flows within the Procurement Data Warehouse
• Collaborate & communicate closely with other employees (Procurement at group and on OpCo level, Finance, IT) as needed to resolve questions, issues, etc. Process requests via the ticketing system in various topics - within the agreed timelines
• Work with manufacturing locations resolve missing data issues so that items, vendors, are processed in a timely fashion.
• Follow-up and escalate in a timely manner in the event of non-compliance of data cadence.
• Run system reports and distribute to appropriate personnel.
• Customer facing documents: create and maintain training documents, checklists and smart forms to support internal customers and help improving the input (First Time Right) Data Quality & Data Enrichment: Key Activities
• Strive towards 100% accurate Spend Cube: Zero unknown organization, Zero unknown suppliers, Zero Unknown Categorization
• Create & undertake data quality enhancement projects in conjunction with Local Procurement teams.
• Collaborate & communicate closely with other employees (Procurement at group and on OpCo level, Finance, IT) as needed to resolve questions, issues, etc. Process requests via the ticketing system in various topics - within the agreed timelines
• Periodic check & provide