Senior Manager, BI, Analytics & Insights - Center of Excellence

Job ID: 530351

CRH's Americas Materials business is the leading provider of building materials in North America. The aggregates, asphalt, ready mixed concrete, paving and construction services we deliver are critical to building our world. Our operations span 45 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces with over 30,000 employees across 1,700 operating locations.

Job Summary

The Senior Manager, BI, Analytics & Insights leads the Business Analytics team within the Shared Services Center’s Center of Excellence, giving finance leaders across AMAT a trusted, consistent view of performance. This is a high-visibility role with two sides: setting the vision and standards for how the business uses data to make decisions and building the team that delivers it. Working closely with the CoE Director and partner teams across the SSC, you will help establish the CoE as a strategic, best-in-class function. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with strong finance acumen, a track record of developing analytics talent, and the credibility to influence senior leadership.

What Center of Excellence Does:

A Center of Excellence (CoE) is a strategic unit that drives innovation, standardization, and best practices while prioritizing customer experience. It ensures that financial operations like accounts payable, receivable, budgeting, and reporting are not only efficient and consistent but also aligned with the needs of internal and external stakeholders. By leveraging advanced technology, analytics, and industry insights, the CoE delivers accurate, timely, and actionable financial support that enhances the overall customer experience. It fosters clear communication, responsiveness, and tailored solutions, ensuring that every financial interaction adds value and builds trust. Ultimately, a finance CoE bridges operational excellence with customer-centricity, transforming financial processes into a seamless, user-friendly experience.

What Shared Service Does:

A Shared Services Center (SSC) centralizes critical business processes, streamlining operations, reducing costs, and delivering consistent quality. By consolidating areas such as finance, procurement, payroll, and reporting, SSC eliminates duplication, frees time for strategic priorities, and fosters efficiency. SSC's primary functions include:

• O2C (Order-to-Cash) : Manages the customer journey from order to payment, driving smoother revenue processes.
• R2R (Record-to-Report): Enables robust financial reporting and accounting.
• P2P (Procure-to-Pay): Ensures timely vendor payments and strong supplier relationships. Manages the Travel and Expense program.
• Center of Excellence: Drives innovation and continuous improvement.
• Payroll (Hire-to-Retire): Ensures accurate, compliant employee payments.

Shared Services enables companies to focus on growth and strategic goals while maintaining operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and build flagship dashboards and enterprise KPI scorecard,
• Set standards for dashboard design, development lifecycle, version control
• Lead the Tableau vs. Power BI platform assessment and recommend a strategy
• Own the metric dictionary and KPI framework
• Hire, coach and develop the Business Analytics team, and build career paths for BI, analytics and data science roles
• Work with Director of CoE and peer pillars (Automation, Compliance and the Contact Center) to create best in class COE operating model
• Work with SSC workstreams to standardize recurring reporting needs
• Remain abreast of best practices and trends relevant to SSC CoE services and related technologies.
• Influence and negotiate with a wide range of internal and external audiences and foster a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Educations & Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 6 years of progressive experience in BI, analytics, data science, or FP&A analytics.
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience managing people, including hiring and developing technical talent.
• Expert in Power BI or Tableau and proficient in the other, with a portfolio as evidence.
• Strong Python skills for analytics, automation, and modeling.
• Advanced SQL and dimensional/semantic data modeling.
• Finance fluency: P&L, balance sheet, budgeting/forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Experience presenting to senior finance leadership (VP or CFO level).
• Strategic mindset with the ability to manage competing priorities.

Strongly Preferred

• Master’s degree in Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, or an MBA.
• Has built or significantly scaled an analytics team, BI function, or CoE.
• Applied data science experience: forecasting, regression, or anomaly detection models running in production and used by the business.
• Has implemented data governance: metric definitions, certified datasets, and standards.
• Experience in finance analytics, shared services, or Global Business Services (GBS).
• Manufacturing, building materials, construction, or industrial background.
• Working knowledge of R for analytics and modeling.
• Microsoft PL-300 / DP-600 and Tableau or Power BI certifications.

A Plus

• Six Sigma certification.

Work Environment:

• Hybrid schedule with 3 days in the office; typical office working conditions.
• The role may require work outside normal business hours.
• Up to 10% travel may be required.

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 Americas Materials Inc. is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

EOE/Vet/Disability

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