Contract Pricing Specialist

Bid Coordinator

Summary: Responsible for identifying and gathering the necessary information to generate bids. This includes working with CWD Procurement & Contract Compliance departments as well as Brokers & Vendors. Involves negotiating pricing, analyzing numbers, reviewing contracts, and creating revenue expectations.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Bid Generation
  • Work with Sales Representative to review RFPs and gather customer information needed to start the process. This will include but not be limited to: Deadlines, nutrition expectation, product identification, forecasting, etc. Use this information to develop timelines for project completion.
  • Negotiate pricing from vendors.
  • Review and understand vendor contracts as well as work with Contract Compliance regarding pricing guidelines and restrictions, product limitations, etc. Provide Contract Compliance with necessary information to properly set up contracts.
  • Understand and account for the impact of freight on availability and costs for the product as well as the company's cost to deliver. Be able to differentiate between different freight categories such as FOB, delivered, etc.
  • Willing to learn Purchasing Programs including GPOs.
  • Pull together the information to create Excel spreadsheets and present to sales and management the expected customer costs as well as company revenue. Assist in developing proposals.
  • Busiest time of the year is from March - September
• Contract Evaluation
  • When not working on new bids, will focus on evaluating current contracts:
    • Review for profitability
    • Review for adherence to the bid
• Other Projects as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Training/Experience:

• High school graduate or equivalentrequired; advanced degree preferred
• 1 year of administrative experience
• Knowledge of the National School Lunch Program and the Child & Adult Care Food Program, or health care industry regulations is helpful

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize required
• Understanding of contracts and logistics
• Critical thinking and strong analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently
• Detail oriented
• Basic computer skills required with an emphasis in Excel, intermediate skills desired.

Benefits:

• Immediate: Eligible for Paid holidays
• 30 days: Eligible for employee pricing
• 60 days: Medical, Dental, Vision and Life insurance eligibility, Company Paid Life coverage, and 2 PTO days
• 90 days: 401k contribution eligibility
• 180 days: 2 PTO days
• 1 year: 401k matching eligibility, 8 PTO days, Company Paid Short-Term Disability

Cash-Wa Distributing is a strong, stable and financially smart company. As one of the largest privately-owned food service distributors in the Midwest our family owned company has a history of building strong relationships. If you are interested in joining an innovative, supportive, values driven company, we invite you to consider a career with Cash-Wa Distributing!