Master Data Specialist - Remote

 

 

Job ID:  501864

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.

 

Job Summary

 

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 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

 

 

Job Requirements

 

• 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 wo