Pricing Manager -Distribution |Atlanta, GA

Pricing Manager

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 Inboxthe 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

Requirements:

• 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

Bunzl U.S. salary range for this role is $70,000$95,000, based on experience, education and market rates within the geography. This reflects a good?faith estimate of expected compensation. Compensation range for California is $70,304 - $95,000 and compensation range for Washington is $80,169 - $95,000; in compliance with applicable state and local minimum salary requirement laws.

Bunzl will be accepting applications for a minimum of 10 business days from the date of posting.