Food Pricing Specialist

Job Introduction

• Location: Remote – with occasional travel to client sites 
• Contract: Permanent- Full time 
• Shift Patterns: Monday-Friday 08:30-17:00 
• Salary: Salary negotiable depending on experience, Bonus plus Sodexo benefits package

Food Pricing Specialist

About The Role

We’re seeking a resilient, detail-driven Food Pricing Specialist who can thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, balancing multiple priorities and tight deadlines while maintaining accuracy and focus. As a Food Pricing Specialist, you’ll play a key role in shaping commercially successful bids across our Food and Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) services

You’ll bring together insight, analysis, and collaboration to develop accurate, competitive, compelling and client-focused pricing models. Working closely with business development, finance, procurement, and operational teams, you’ll ensure our proposals are commercially compliant, compelling and aligned with both client needs and our business objectives, even when under considerable time pressure

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead the pricing process for individual strategic bids across Food and IFM
• Develop and own detailed cost and pricing models to support commercial proposals
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create innovative and compelling operational solutions that translate into accurate and compelling financial models
• Analyse data, identify risks and opportunities, and provide clear commercial recommendations
• Support bid governance and approval processes with concise financial analysis and commentary
• Contribute to continuous improvement of pricing tools, models, and processes
   

What We're Looking For:

• Proven experience as a Pricer/Estimator, or as an operations lead (with a deep understanding of the pricing role), working in the Food and IFM outsourcing sector
• Strong understanding of catering solution design, service delivery, cost structures and pricing
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence in managing complex financial data.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, work to deadlines, and maintain accuracy under pressure.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to engage effectively with key stakeholders, across business functions
• Commercially astute with a focus on creating value-driven, client-centric solutions. 

Why Sodexo?:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. 

Belong in a company and team that values you for you. 

Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.

Thrive in your own way. 

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support 
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular high street retailers (also open to friends and family)
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo:

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

Ready to be part of something greater? 

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications