Pricing Manager

Location:

Fort Worth, TX, US, 76118

Work Location:

Hybrid

RS is a high-service global product and service solutions provider for industrial customers, enabling them to operate efficiently and sustainably.

We operate in 33 markets, stock over 875,000 industrial and specialist products and list an additional five million relevant for our industrial customers, sourced from over 2,500 suppliers. This extensive range supports our customers across the industrial lifecycle of designing, building and maintaining equipment and operations. We enhance their experience through a tailored service model, leveraging our efficient physical, digital and process infrastructure sustainably.

We combine a technically led and digitally enabled approach with an exceptional team of experts; ultimately, it’s our people that make the difference.

Our purpose, making amazing happen for a better world, reflects our focus on delivering results for people, planet and profit.

The Pricing Manager role sits within the Margin Management organization, a core commercial function responsible for protecting margin, enabling competitive positioning, and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of cost and pricing data across the Americas. The team operates at the center of supplier cost changes, public online pricing, customer specific pricing arrangements, and commercial decision making—making it a high impact area with direct visibility to leadership.

Pricing and margin management is a strong place to build a career because the team works with near real time market data, best in class pricing and margin analytics technology, complex pricing rules and cost structures, with aggressive plans for further improvements. Team members gain exposure to strategic pricing decisions, supplier negotiations, business system upgrades, the end-to-end business processes and ecosystem, and enterprise-wide process improvements.

Work examples include:

• Partner with commercial, product, and supply chain teams to align pricing decisions with business strategy
• Lead and develop a team of 4, setting priorities, coaching performance, and ensuring high-quality output
• Own pricing performance tracking, including margin, price realization, and competitive positioning metrics
• Working directly with the system implementation partner to enable new pricing capabilities

This environment is well suited for individuals who want to lead teams, influence commercial outcomes, and contribute to cross functional operational excellence.

The Pricing Manager leads the execution and continuous improvement of pricing strategies across a large, complex industrial distribution portfolio. This role is responsible for guiding a team of Pricing Analysts and a Pricing Technology Senior Analyst to deliver competitive, accurate, and scalable pricing across millions of products, balancing market competitiveness with margin optimization. The role works with Finance, Product Management, Sales, IT systems, and commercial execution—driving both day-to-day pricing outcomes and the evolution toward more mature, analytics-driven pricing capabilities.

• Lead and develop a team of 3 Pricing Analysts and 1 Pricing Technology Senior Analyst, setting priorities, coaching performance, and ensuring high-quality output
• Oversee pricing execution processes including competitor benchmarking, cost-plus pricing, and supplier-guided pricing updates
• Ensure pricing accuracy, consistency, and timeliness across a large SKU catalog and online channels
• Establish and enforce pricing governance, policies, and approval frameworks
• Partner with commercial, product, and supply chain teams to align pricing decisions with business strategy
• Drive continuous improvement in pricing…