Pricing Analyst

US Foods; Town of Clifton Park (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

Paid time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Life insurance

Job summary

US Foods is seeking a pricing specialist to execute the local pricing strategy at the Albany Clifton Park or Watertown DCs. You will manage DSBC, analyze margin opportunities, and support bids for local customers in partnership with the Strategic Pricing Manager.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree or 3+ years pricing experience, strong Excel/Office skills, and the ability to work on-site daily. Insurance and retirement benefits are typical for this position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or minimum 3 years pricing experience required.
• Pricing experience within foodservice or food manufacturing highly desired.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills required.

Responsibilities

• Review and manage price deviations and exceptions for Territory Managers aligned to DC.
• Evaluate requests for commission-based adjustments, self-funded deviations, and price approvals.
• Answer pricing queries escalated from Sales and other USF employees for the DC.
• Analyze and develop pricing recommendations to support bids for local customers.
• Manage area DSBC reporting to improve area margins and resolve costing errors.
• Execute weekly promotional pricing in the designated DC.
• Monitor margin and market pricing; audit local self-funded deviations with DSMs.

Skills

Sales support

Business acumen

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Outlook

PRIME pricing system

Pricing databases

Job description

Are you a current US Food employee? Please apply directly through our internal Workday career site.

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Execute pricing strategy at the distribution center (DC) level to support company margin goals and local "Go to Market" strategy. Identify margin improvement opportunities by managing area-wide Daily Sales Below Cost (DSBC) process.

This position is required to work on-site daily either out of our Albany (Clifton Park) or our Watertown, NY location.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Review and manage price deviations and exceptions for Territory Managers (TMs) aligned to designated DC. This includes evaluating requests for commission-based adjustments (CBAs), self-funded deviations, and price approvals.

Answer pricing queries escalated from Sales and other USF employees as required for the designated DC.

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 DC, in partnership with Strategic Pricing Manager.

Manage area DSBC reporting process to improve area margins. Identify costing errors and work with relevant stakeholders to resolve.

Execute weekly promotional pricing in designated DC.

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 Merlin to identify product and category opportunities for pricing strategies. Complete ad‑hoc pricing analysis as required by the Strategic Pricing Manager, Area President or Region Pricing Manager.

Manage and upload exceptions for vendor price list from local/regional suppliers.

Maintain customer pricing rationale (CPR) back‑up for area.

SUPERVISION

None

RELATIONSHIPS

Internal: Pricing Manager; Region Pricing Manager; Area President; AVP of Merchandising and Marketing and area sales team (VP Sales, Sales Manager, DSMs, CSC, and TMs)

External: Customers, vendors

QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Training: Bachelor’s Degree, or minimum 3 years of pricing experience required.

Related Experience: Pricing experience within foodservice or food manufacturing companies highly desired. Strong quantitative and analytical skills required.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• 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.

This role may also receive an annual incentive plan bonus.

Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre‑tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short‑term and long‑term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance.

Compensation depends on relevant experience and/or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law (for example: state or local minimum wage thresholds). The expected base rate for this role is between $65,000 - $105,000.

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