Procurement Data & Analytics Specialist

 

 

Job ID:  530749
 

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. 

 

Job Summary

 

Drive value-add procurement analytics and insight for the global procurement community. Building on current data structures, the role focuses on automation and stabilizing the data foundation to enable the transformation of procurement data into meaningful actionable intelligence.

 

The role also maintains accountability for data quality governance, ensuring the integrity of the central spend reporting schema and the CRH Category Tree, and actively driving resolution of data quality issues at source and downstream.

 

Job Location

 

This role is based at our corporate office in the Perimeter area of Atlanta, GA – hybrid work schedule

 

Job Responsibilities

 

Analytics & Insight (Primary Focus)

• Design and deliver advanced Tableau dashboards and self-service reporting tools that provide the procurement community with clear, actionable spend and supplier intelligence
• Analyze procurement datasets and translate complex data into concise, business-relevant narratives
• Develop and maintain category-level and divisional spend analytics, supporting strategic decisions and procurement performance tracking
• Present analytical findings and recommendations to procurement leadership and category teams in a structured, visually compelling manner
• Partner with category managers and divisional procurement teams to understand their analytical needs and proactively deliver insight that drives commercial outcomes
• Leverage approved AI/ML tools to enhance spend classification, supplier analytics, and pattern recognition

 

Data Quality Governance (Enabling Foundation)

• Own the governance of the CRH Category Tree mapping across ERP source systems within Snowflake, ensuring mappings are accurate, current, and systematically maintained
• Proactively identify, investigate, and resolve spend classification gaps and data quality issues, driving fixes at source (ERP, GL, supplier master, etc.)
• Define and monitor data quality KPIs for spend completeness, taxonomy coverage and quality; escalate and track remediation with PPR, ERP owners and divisional teams
• Work with PPR, divisional procurement, and IT partners to embed sustainable data quality improvements into upstream / downstream processes and system configurations
• Support the onboarding of new ERP source systems into the central reporting schema and the automation of data extraction, applying lessons learned to accelerate and standardize the process

 

Stakeholder Collaboration & Data Integration

• Act as the analytical interface between Group Procurement and divisional teams, translating business questions into data requirements and analytical deliverables
• Collaborate with the Data Engineers Team to integrate new data sources, ensuring they are fit for analytical purpose from the outset
• Identify opportunities to enrich procurement analytics with external or adjacent data sources (e.g. market indices, etc.)
• Participate in international projects and travel occasionally for team meetings

 

Job Requirements

 

• Strong communication and presentation skills, written and verbal
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and stakeholder demands
• Collaborative and solutions-oriented working style
• Comfortable working across cultures in an international organization
• Educated to a bachelor’s degree level
• 5 or more years of experience in an analytics role, ideally within procurement in a large, complex, international organization
• Demonstrable experience delivering analytics and visualization outputs with examples of insight that influenced business decisions
• Proven track record of driving data quality improvements at source and downstream
• Proven ability to design and build (Tableau) dashboards and experience in performance optimization
• Ability to translate findings into clear, structured narratives tailored to different audiences
• Practical experience applying or evaluating AI-assisted tools for spend categorization; NLP-based interaction, or predictive analytics is required
• Experience in building or customizing AI/ML models for structured categorization of transaction level data is preferred
• Experience with a cloud data platform environment (preferably Snowflake), basic SQL
• Expert Excel: advanced modelling, pivot analysis, and data validation
• Data quality frameworks: experience defining and implementing data quality rules, monitoring, and remediation workflows is an advantage
• Data literacy: understanding of procurement data structures (POs, invoices, supplier master, GL coding, etc.) and data quality matters
• Taxonomy: experience working with structured commodity taxonomies and managing category tree mappings across multiple ERPs
• Commercial acumen: ability to connect findings to business value and procurement strategy

 

What CRH Offers You

 

• Highly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs
• An 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 a 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!

 

CRH is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

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