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Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP) is a leading global provider of essential minerals focused on safely delivering where and when it matters to help solve nature’s challenges for customers and communities. The company’s salt products help keep roadways safe during winter weather and are used in numerous other consumer, industrial, chemical and agricultural applications. Its plant nutrition products help improve the quality and yield of crops, while supporting sustainable agriculture. Additionally, the company is pursuing development of a sustainable lithium brine resource to support the North American battery market and is a minority owner of Fortress North America, a next-generation fire retardant company. Compass Minerals operates 12 production and packaging facilities with nearly 2,000 employees throughout the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Visit compassminerals.com for more information about the company and its products.

Summary:

This position is responsible for assisting the Highway Sales Group by collecting, analyzing, and reporting sales and market related information to increase profitability, productivity, and market knowledge and to use this information to draw conclusions and make recommendations regarding the company’s approach to the market. This position will also create custom and standardized reports; conduct quantitative business analyses and provide support for various sales functions.

Essential job functions include, but are not limited, to the following:

(Management reserves the right to add or modify the duties and responsibilities at any time.)

• Collect, research, analyze, evaluate, synthesize and report market data/competitive intelligence such as, and not limited to; sales and pricing trends, market share, competitor costs, industry production and storage locations, capacity utilization and apparent market strategies.
• Maintain and operate market/bid modeling tool and report findings
• Assist sales in development and execution of business strategy and improving bid process from good to Great.
• Work with cross-functional teams including sales, operations and logistics to understand and model industry cost and margin structure.
• Use of mapping software to graphically represent geographic sales and pricing data.
• Ability to draw conclusions, challenge assertions, identify trends and implications.
• Assist with development of presentation materials to clearly communicate key messages.
• Support Compass Minerals Core Values: Integrity, Respect, Value Creation, Collaboration and High Performance.
• Perform other related duties as required.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or quantitative field such as Business Management, Mathematics, Economics, Finance.
• 2 – 4 years of business analysis, financial analysis or supply/demand planning experience.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.