Pricing Manager -Distribution (Atlanta, GA)

Bunzl Career • Lithia Springs, GA

3d • $70,000 - $95,000 • Onsite

About The Position

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 .

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED equivalent required
• 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.
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Experience working in distribution and/or foodservice industries preferred.
• AS400 experience preferred.
• Microsoft Office Suite, with advanced Excel capability strongly preferred/expected

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).

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED