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Pricing Manager

Geplaatst 25 mrt. 2024
Werkervaring
5 tot 6 jaar
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Functie
Soort opleiding
Taalvereiste
Engels (Vloeiend)

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We're Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide.

Our Newcastle office is currently recruiting for a Pricing Manager. As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view and believe diversity drives innovation, so we're building a culture where difference is valued.

The Role:

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who wishes to be part of a progressive, proactive and customer-centric team. The successful candidate will play an integral part of driving forward the continuous improvement agenda for the Commercial Finance function and its collaboration with other business support professionals. You will be an experienced pricing professional, who utilises strong communication and soft skills to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders alike.

In conjunction with Commercial Finance colleagues, the Pricing Manager will support on the development and execution of the firms pricing agenda ensuring the necessary benchmarking, analytical tools and capabilities exist to support firm and finance departmental strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Advise Partners of ways to maximise the value of client relationships through different pricing techniques, modelling the financial impact and viability of proposed pricing arrangements and challenging key decision makers when appropriate. Supporting Partners with client facing engagements where needed.
  • Maintaining a high level of visibility in serving as one of the firm's subject matter experts for pricing-related matters.
  • Supporting pricing team promotional efforts including presentations to key stakeholders to increase internal adoption and market awareness. Encourage broader and better use of the Firm's tools to develop more profitable and consistent pricing approaches.
  • Supporting on the provision of education and support to stakeholders involved in pricing proposals and approvals, advancing pricing as a strategic tool to build and enhance client relationships.
  • Assist Partners in the development of budgets and monitoring against actual performance for matters, particularly complex litigation work where more detailed project management support may be required. The Pricing Manager will act as an advocate and agent for adopting effective legal project management discipline where necessary.
  • In conjunction with Commercial Finance colleagues, support on the annual review of standard rates to ensure profitability maximisation with appropriate consideration of practice mix and market realities as well as compensation and other costs.
  • Ensuring strong working relationships with other support functions, in particular Business Development leads to establish, promote and maintain policies and processes required for effective management of pricing for transactions, bids and panel appointments. The successful candidate will also work with NRF's Transform function to support best use of legal process, people and technology to improve commercial outcomes for the firm and our clients.
  • Keep abreast of industry pricing practices, particularly for major competitors and assess key trends. Support in the development of pricing models and tools for legal services and monitor profitability and implementation of those models
  • In conjunction with other business support professionals, provide advice to stakeholders in relation to improving matter financial performance through the provision of post matter financial analysis and associated pricing and business information.
  • Business partnering with Client Relationship Partners to provide financial support, plan deployment and investment to help drive profitability
  • Providing senior finance support on commercial improvement projects across EMEA when and as required

Skills and Experience:

  • Educated to degree level
  • A minimum of 5 years relevant pricing experience within a professional services business, with a preference given to the legal sector
  • Advanced MS Office suite user (particularly Excel). Demonstrable experience of manipulating and working with large and complex volumes of data
  • Strong commercial acumen and exceptional analysis and financial modelling skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and has strength of personality to ensure the perspective of 'Finance' is clearly communicated
  • Excellent time management skills, able to manage stakeholders during times of conflicting deliverables. The ability to remain calm and focused under pressure
  • Excellent soft skills including the ability to influence senior stakeholders and negotiate desired outcomes
  • Strong presentation skills and experience in providing internal training
  • Hardworking, dedicated and an ambition to grow professionally
  • A role model for junior staff who is committed to sharing knowledge and developing talent
  • A collaborative team-player who is transparent and has a straight-forward approach. Experience of working with varied and cross-functional teams to deliver on business objectives.

Our clients come first and whilst we have a high performance culture and work hard as a team, in return we offer range of competitive benefits including:

  • 25 days hols + Bank hols - Buy up to 5 days
  • GP Service
  • Bupa Healthcare
  • Pension
  • Flexible working

We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 4,000 lawyers and other legal staff based in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.
Recognised for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and…


We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 4,000 lawyers and other legal staff based in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.

Recognised for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare. Through our global risk advisory group, we leverage our industry experience with our knowledge of legal, regulatory, compliance and governance issues to provide our clients with practical solutions to the legal and regulatory risks facing their businesses.

Wherever we are, we operate in accordance with our global business principles of quality, unity and integrity. We aim to provide the highest possible standard of legal service in each of our offices and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact.

Our London office delivers domestic and multi-jurisdictional legal services to corporates, financial institutions, governments and other public sector organisations. We excel across a range of legal practices, including corporate, M&A and securities; banking and finance; dispute resolution and litigation; real estate; antitrust and competition; tax; employment and labor; intellectual property; regulation and investigations; and risk advisory. We also advise on US law, and we have a worldleading Islamic finance practice. We are particularly well-known for our focus on industry sectors and are strong in financial institutions, including insurance; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare.

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London
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