Pricing Manager

As Pricing Manager you will be analysing, the financial proposition of fee deal by supporting fee proposal submissions to the firm’s Client Pricing Committee and ultimately the client.

You will be responsible for providing financial advice  to client relationship partners and client teams as to the options they may wish to consider in the analysis and interpretation of a client fee deal proposal.

Key responsibilities and challenges:

1. Manage or support the financial aspects of the client fee deal process including liaising with and ensuring timely buy in from all stakeholders. Provide commercial insights and challenge in an advisory capacity leveraging past experience with appropriate gravitas to influence Partners

2. Facilitate and ensure fee proposals go through the appropriate internal approval process

3. Produce bespoke financial modelling to support  in relation to pricing and financial issues for fee deal proposals. Maintaining high levels of accuracy under pressurised situations whilst retaining a high level oversight of the requirements of fee negotiations.

Perform mid term reviews of existing commercial arrangements. Escalate cases of non-compliance or where actual recoveries differ from that modelled in fee negotiations.

4. Monitor the expiry of existing client fee deals and project manage these and new client fee deals in a coherent and commercial manner. Manage stakeholders to ensure relevant information is considered and employed in a timely fashion.

5. Gather all necessary information from stakeholders to facilitate the implementation of client fee deals into our financial system. Communicate regularly with the Process & Infrastructure team to ensure this has happened and resolve any outstanding items.

6. Develop best practice reports, highlight trends in pricing and share with the global pricing network and throughout the firm. Be acknowledged as a global expert in this field and drive forward improvements.

You will be highly proactive and be self motivated by nature with a strong client service mentality

You will have a high degree of commercial acumen, an understanding of how businesses operate and make decisions and an understanding of legal products and services.