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    Buyer - Salt Lake City, United States - Compass Minerals America Inc.

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    **Description**

    **We invite you to Explore the Potential of being part of something Clearly Essential**

    Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP) is a leading global provider of essential minerals focused on safely delivering where and when it matters to help solve natures challenges for customers and communities. The companys 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, it is working to develop a next-generation, long-term fire-retardant business that offers more innovative and environmentally friendly products in the fight against wildfires. Compass Minerals operates 12 production and packaging facilities with nearly 2,000 employees throughout the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Visit for more information about the company and its products.

    **Summary:**

    This position is primarily responsible for effectively sourcing, negotiating and contracting an uninterrupted supply of MRO materials, primarily non inventory and stock inventory items. Position will also assist in purchasing capital project materials and have a high degree of inventory systems work. Will also assist the department manager with the monitoring of performance, continuous cost improvement, process improvement, safety, training and work activities related to the operation with an emphasis on controlling costs, total cost of ownership and inventory systems proficiency.

    **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.)_

    + Effective purchasing of capital, non-stock and project work ensuring appropriate sourcing, negotiations and contract development and documentation.

    + Ensure compliance with corporate supply contracts on MRO purchasing, including loading of contract pricing into the system, to permit automated/simple release of contracted inventory items.

    + Follow up and resolve with Accounting any invoice discrepancies, ensuring costs in the system are accurate

    + Analyze inventory levels on consumable stock items and purchases replacement items as required and per established purchasing standards, best practices and production requirements.; adjust min/max levels to reflect current usage and effective inventory management.

    + Selects suppliers, assesses supplier capabilities, develops alternative sources and evaluates supplier performance. Negotiate price and delivery on purchased goods and services as required. Assist and monitors alliance/contract price agreements.

    + Assures that open purchase orders are tracked, followed up on and expedited by staff as needed. Must be actively engaged in realizing, capturing and reporting cost savings opportunities.

    + Issues purchase orders and maintains positive supplier relations. Work proactively with internal and external customer to maintain high level of customer service, confidence and working relationships. Extensive work done with maintenance planners and operations in quoting and sourcing non stock needs.

    + Assists manager in contract preparation and/or review.

    + Will be required to participate in career enhancement programs to attain/maintain professional level buying skills.

    + Perform other related duties as required.

    **Qualifications**

    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:**

    + Bachelors Degree preferred.

    + Certification requirements: CPM or equivalent experience or employee willing to work towards and achieve CPM certification based upon an agreed plan.

    + 5 Years of purchasing experience including sourcing, capital purchasing, contract development and negotiations.

    + Experience in the procurement of maintenance materials also preferred.

    **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.

    + While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

    Compass Minerals is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are firmly committed to making all employment-related decisions without regard to race, ancestry, ethnicity, color, religious creed or belief, national origin, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, and pregnancy and breastfeeding), age, military or veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by law. To request reasonable accommodations, email or call Learn more about equal employment opportunity laws at .

    **Job:** Logistics

    **Primary Location:** US-UT-Salt Lake City

    **Work Locations:** Ogden 84201

    **Job Type:** Full-time

    **Schedule:** Regular

    **Shift:** Standard

    Day Job

    **Req ID:**


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