Job ID: 490266
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.
Position Overview
An exciting opportunity to work with a new team to build the organization's capability in market research and analysis. For the curious, who thrive on uncovering hidden insights that will shape the organization's growth strategy. Tap into our culture of entrepreneurs and feel empowered to help understand and solve our organization's most challenging questions. Contribute with a diverse and inclusive team that is rethinking and reimaging ways to make sustainable impacts to the way we build the communities we live and work in.
Key Responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Identify and develop market intelligence data sources to help better understand the business environment within our key markets: water, energy, communications and transportation
• Cultivate intelligence for key organizational projects including acquisitions, new product development, major capital projects, significant change initiatives, etc.

• Communicate key insights to senior leadership through presentations, dashboards, reports, etc.
• With cross-functional teams, create executable business strategies to sell solutions within key markets
• Conduct ad-hoc research on discrete market events, develop 'expert network' for input & analysis
• Collaborate with Innovation team to analyze and deepen understanding of 'edge' opportunities

Qualifications
Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 5 years experience (ideally in fields such as market or competitive intelligence, management consulting, etc.)
• Experience with databases/data warehouse applications (Snowflake), ERP systems (Microsoft AX), business intelligence platforms (Tableau) and Microsoft Office applications required.

Competencies and Skills

• Information Seeking - Driven by an underlying curiosity and desire to know more about things, people, or issues. This involves going beyond routine questions and includes digging or pressing for exact information; resolving discrepancies by asking a series of questions; or conducting less-focused environmental scanning for opportunities or miscellaneous information that may be used in the future.
• Builds Networks - Builds strong formal and informal networks. Maintains relationships across a variety of functions and locations. Draws upon multiple relationships to exchange ideas, resources, and know-how.
• Business Acumen - Make sound business decisions based on a strong understanding of the company's business model, strategic goals, and relevant policies, as well as best practices and current technologies.
• Deliberative Decision Making - Gather, consider, and evaluate all relevant information to make logical conclusions before being moved to action; able to put aside personal biases and take an objective approach to making decisions based on data or other pertinent facts.
• Communicating - Provide the information required by others in a concise, direct, and unambiguous way; strive to ensure that the receiver clearly understands the specifics of their message and they are able to listen to, receive, and understand messages conveyed by others.
• Time Management - Focus on completing all work tasks in a timely manner, while remaining responsive enough to react to competing demands and shifting priorities; manage multiple responsibilities while staying organized and keeping on top of the important time-sensitive tasks and performing all work accurately.
• Process Management - Take a systematic approach in contributing to making the company's workflow more effective, efficient, and capable of adapting to an ever-changing environment.

What CRH Offers You

• Highly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs
• A 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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Date: Mar 29, 2024