Senior Pricing & Analytics Manager

Description

• Lead cross-functional projects across the wider Legal community to enhance commercial opportunities via development and implementation of cost containment initiatives
• Collaborate with legal, finance, and analytics teams to develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to external legal spend and vendor performance.
• Play an active role in the development and implementation of systems and metrics to monitor, report, and improve legal sourcing and pricing effectiveness.
• Lead on fee arrangements and alternative pricing structures with external law firms for our most complex and material matters. At all times maximising value by ensuring alignment with firm strategic objectives.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry best practices, and innovation across pricing / sourcing as well as wider legal operations trends; develop an ‘outside-in’ knowledge sharing approach across the team
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve E2E processes for sourcing legal services, including RFP development, proposal assessment, and vendor selection.
• Operationalisation of existing processes – Preparation, analysis and negotiation of RFPs ensuring decisions are made within a rigorous, consistent, and cost conscious framework
• Enhance the strategic framework that underpins how we engage and negotiate across our portfolio of 3rd party law firms.
• Provide actionable insights and recommendations to legal leadership to inform sourcing strategy and improve outcomes.
• Stakeholder Management – Collaboration with lawyers, internal stakeholders (including Finance/ IT / Admin/ RtP), and external vendors and 3rd party law firms
• Continual improvement – Monitoring, review and enhancement of existing performance metrics / outputs to inform enhanced future processes
• Work with the Manager of the Sourcing team to drive continuous improvement of legal operations, proactively identifying opportunities to evolve or enhance services.
• Build strong relationships with law firms and internal stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor on sourcing and pricing matters.
• Analyse data derived from fee arrangements and legal spend to identify trends and opportunities for commercial improvement.

Requirements

• Minimum five years’ experience in a legal sourcing, pricing, or procurement role, preferably in a large law firm or corporate legal department.
• Ability to influence and communicate effectively at all levels of the organisation.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage KPIs for legal teams and external vendors.
• Experience with RFP and legal spend management software.
• Experience supporting RFP processes and vendor management in a legal or professional services environment.
• Organisational skills. Strong experience across project and programme leadership
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and relationship-building skills. Comfortable working with both internal and external stakeholders, often at a senior level.
• Creative and innovative mindset, with a track record of driving process improvement in a complex, global environment.
• Flexible and adaptable, with a willingness to take on evolving responsibilities.
• Familiarity with Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFA) and legal service delivery models.
• Background in data analytics and dashboard management; e.g. PowerBI, Tableau
• Experience in RFP development, vendor assessment, and procurement processes.
• Proven experience negotiating fee arrangements and pricing structures either with law firms opposite clients, or within a legal operations function opposite law firms.
• Analytical skills. Skilled at MS Excel (at least intermediate level) with experience in data analysis, reporting, and performance tracking.

Benefits

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performancerelated salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

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