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Description
As the Pricing Manager you will be responsible for leading the day-to-day execution of the pricing change process and serving as a front-line manager to a team of 10 Pricing Administrators. This role ensures pricing requests and vendor-announced price changes are properly vetted, assigned, completed accurately. You will also ensure price changes are closed on time, through established workflow tools and systems. You will oversee the operational integrity and timely implementation of approved pricing actions and cost changes.
This is an onsite, day shift role. Ideal candidates will be in our Atlanta, GA (Litha Springs) location. However, we will consider applicants that sit at any of our HUB locations . **
Responsibilities
The perks of being a Bunzl team member don’t stop at being part of a great team or being valued as our #1 asset. We offer a full range of benefits to help our employees take care of themselves and their families today, tomorrow and for the future.
Bunzl will be accepting applications for a minimum of 10 business days from the date of posting.
What are you waiting for? A new career awaits you with endless opportunities.
Bunzl is a global leader in the Cleaning & Hygiene, Food Processing, Grocery, Health Care, Non‑Food Retail, and Safety industries. We have grown both organically and through acquisitions to exceed $10 billion in sales. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Bunzl North America operates more than 100 warehouses and serves all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean and Mexico. With more than 10,000 team members and over 400,000 supplies, Bunzl is recognized as a leading supplier across North America—and proudly certified as a Great Place to Work®. At Bunzl, you’ll find Unlimited Potential… your career, our future.
Bunzl Distribution offers competitive salaries, a comfortable work environment, and a full range of benefits including a 401k with a company match.
Bunzl Distribution has a tradition of commitment to equal employment opportunity. It is the established policy to attract and retain the best qualified people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status as provided by law.
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.
For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.
If you have questions about this posting, please contact support@lensa.com
Description
As the Pricing Manager you will be responsible for leading the day-to-day execution of the pricing change process and serving as a front-line manager to a team of 10 Pricing Administrators. This role ensures pricing requests and vendor-announced price changes are properly vetted, assigned, completed accurately. You will also ensure price changes are closed on time, through established workflow tools and systems. You will oversee the operational integrity and timely implementation of approved pricing actions and cost changes.
This is an onsite, day shift role. Ideal candidates will be in our Atlanta, GA (Litha Springs) location. However, we will consider applicants that sit at any of our HUB locations . **
Responsibilities
- Front-Line Leadership & Team Management
- Provide daily leadership, coaching, and performance management for a team of Pricing Admins (10 direct reports) responsible for executing pricing updates and maintaining pricing accuracy.
- Manage workforce needs including workload balancing, scheduling, coverage planning, and team coordination to meet service levels and deadlines.
- Serve as the first escalation point for team questions and exceptions (e.g., significant cost increases, unusual pricing scenarios, incomplete/incorrect requests).
- Establish clear expectations for quality, turnaround time, documentation, and professional communication across the team.
- Pricing Request Intake, Triage & Workflow Ownership
- Act as the primary monitor/owner of the Pricing Admin Email Inbox—the intake channel for pricing requests from vendors, sales, procurement, and sourcing.
- Vet and triage incoming requests to confirm they belong to the pricing team, contain required information, and are routed correctly; return or redirect requests that are incomplete or misrouted.
- Ensure pricing work is logged, tracked, and managed through workflow tools (e.g., Smartsheet) and follow defined procedures for intake, assignment, completion, and closure.
- Work Assignment, Quality Control & Completion Validation
- Assign cases/work items to individual Pricing Admins, ensuring appropriate prioritization and throughput across the team.
- Perform a secondary validation/QA step on completed work to confirm changes are accurate, timely, and efficiently executed before final closure/confirmation.
- Ensure that pricing documentation and records are maintained with precision and aligned to compliance and audit expectations.
- Execution of Cost & Price Changes (Operational)
- Oversee the team’s execution of vendor cost and customer price updates, including: Reviewing vendor-announced price changes and comparing vendor price lists to current system-loaded pricing
- Determining whether system updates are required and ensuring vendor cost, market cost, and customer sales prices are updated appropriately based on the rate of cost change
- Ensuring changes are completed in alignment with deadlines and internal controls
- Ensure transactional price updates follow established guidance (directional moves aligned to cost changes, without independent “strategy adders”).
- Escalations, Exception Handling & Cross-Functional Coordination
- When pricing activity “looks out of line” (e.g., unusually large increases), evaluate the issue and determine next steps, including escalation to, sourcing/procurement ownership, vendor engagement and national account stakeholders
- Serve as a liaison/contact for field leadership, responding to first-level questions related to cost/pricing activity and routing complex issues appropriately.
- Reporting, Monitoring & Process Improvement
- Monitor pricing activity through routine reporting and dashboards to identify trends, errors, and improvement opportunities (e.g., margin risk, cost errors, throughput bottlenecks).
- Maintain and enhance procedures that improve efficiency, integrity, and timeliness of pricing execution.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across pricing operations (workflows, templates, standard work, communication standards).
- Systems / Tools Used
- AS400, Power BI, Smartsheet, SharePoint
- Microsoft Office Suite, with advanced Excel capability strongly preferred/expected
- High school diploma or GED equivalent required
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- 5 years of experience in pricing, pricing operations, finance, or related business functions.
- Demonstrated experience leading teams in a high-volume, workflow-driven environment (people leadership is essential).
- Strong analytical skills with ability to review cost/price movements and assess exception scenarios.
- Experience working in distribution and/or foodservice industries preferred.
- AS400 experience preferred.
- Strong organization, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities under deadlines.
- Excellent communication skills (written/verbal) and ability to partner effectively with sales, sourcing, procurement, customer service, and vendors
The perks of being a Bunzl team member don’t stop at being part of a great team or being valued as our #1 asset. We offer a full range of benefits to help our employees take care of themselves and their families today, tomorrow and for the future.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance available to employees and eligible dependents starting the first day of the month after 30 days of employment (unless otherwise specified by a collective bargaining agreement).
- 401(k) retirement plan with a generous company match of $0.75 per $1.00 contributed, up to 6% of eligible pay, available after 30 days.
- Paid time off, including (Pro-rated based on hire date):
- 10 vacation days and 2 personal days annually (prorated in the first year based on hire date).
- 40 hours of sick for exempt |56 hours sick for non-exempt per year, in accordance with Washington State law.
- 6 paid national holidays and 2 floating holidays annually.
- Please refer to the Benefits & Perks section on our career webpage for more details
Bunzl will be accepting applications for a minimum of 10 business days from the date of posting.
What are you waiting for? A new career awaits you with endless opportunities.
Bunzl is a global leader in the Cleaning & Hygiene, Food Processing, Grocery, Health Care, Non‑Food Retail, and Safety industries. We have grown both organically and through acquisitions to exceed $10 billion in sales. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Bunzl North America operates more than 100 warehouses and serves all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean and Mexico. With more than 10,000 team members and over 400,000 supplies, Bunzl is recognized as a leading supplier across North America—and proudly certified as a Great Place to Work®. At Bunzl, you’ll find Unlimited Potential… your career, our future.
Bunzl Distribution offers competitive salaries, a comfortable work environment, and a full range of benefits including a 401k with a company match.
Bunzl Distribution has a tradition of commitment to equal employment opportunity. It is the established policy to attract and retain the best qualified people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status as provided by law.
- U.S. Hub locations include: Sumner WA, Cerritos CA, Anaheim CA, Tempe/Phoenix AZ, Dallas TX, Kansas City MO, St. Louis MO, Chicago IL, Indianapolis IN, Atlanta GA, Winston-Salem NC, Worcester MA, Monmouth Junction NJ, Perth Amboy NJ or York PA.
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.
For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.
If you have questions about this posting, please contact support@lensa.com
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