Pricing Analyst

US Foods • Austin, TX

5d • $60,000 - $100,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Execute pricing strategy at the Area level to support company margin goals and local "Go to Market" strategy. Identify margin improvement opportunities by managing area-wide processes. This role is 100% Onsite 5 days a week.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree, or minimum 3 years of pricing experience required.
• Pricing experience within foodservice or food manufacturing companies highly desired.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills required.
• Proven experience working with and supporting sales teams; strong business acumen and interpersonal skills a must.
• Proficiency required in Microsoft Office, especially Microsoft Word, Excel, and Microsoft Outlook.
• Able to access information within established pricing databases and/or analyze data made available from analysts.
• Knowledge of the PRIME pricing system highly desired.

Nice To Haves

• Pricing experience within foodservice or food manufacturing companies highly desired.
• Knowledge of the PRIME pricing system highly desired.

Responsibilities

• Review and manage price deviations and exceptions for Territory Managers (TMs) aligned to the area. This includes evaluating requests for self-funded deviations, and price approvals.
• Answer pricing queries escalated from Sales and other USF employees as required for the designated markets.
• Analyze and develop pricing recommendations to support bids for local customers (e.g., excluding schools) and conduct special pricing reviews for new customer acquisition for the designated markets, in partnership with Area Director of Pricing.
• Manage area reporting processes to improve area margins. Identify costing errors and work with relevant stakeholders to resolve.
• Monitor and identify opportunities by analyzing and reporting on margin and market pricing. Work closely with District Sales Managers (DSMs) on auditing ongoing local self-funded deviations.
• Utilize Sigma, Tableau and other data warehouse programs to identify product and category opportunities for pricing strategies. Complete ad-hoc pricing analysis as required by the Area Director of Pricing.
• Maintain customer pricing rationale (CPR) process for the area.
• Participate in monthly margin meetings and Key Volume Items (KVI) process.

Benefits

• health insurance
• pre-tax spending accounts
• retirement benefits
• paid time off
• short-term and long-term disability
• employee stock purchase plan
• life insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level