Legal Pricing Manager in City of London

We are looking for a Legal Pricing Manager to join us for an exciting secondment with one of our longest-standing clients, a global tech organisation.

What the role will involve:

• Supporting the EMEA Legal team on spend management initiatives;
• Negotiating AFAs on high-legal spend matters and proactively looking for opportunities to negotiate AFAs;
• Assist with trainings re AFAs;
• Running RFPs including attending follow-up interviews with Outside Counsel and the legal team;
• Collaborate with the legal team to create RFP templates for RFPs;
• Collaborate with our RFP vendor team to build RFP templates;
• Legal market analysis and benchmarking to support (and agree) rate negotiations with law firms across the EMEA region;
• Draft process documents and playbooks;
• Negotiations with law firms on pricing individual matters.

Ideal skills and experience:

• Prior experience at both an in-house legal department and a law firm/legal consulting service provider in EMEA;
• 8+ years’ working in pricing / commercial finance / procurement roles in the legal sector;
• Outside Counsel management including experience in benchmarking hourly rates;
• Solid understanding of legal pricing specifically knowledge of and experience in negotiating AFAs;
• Experience in developing/implementing solutions through financial modelling to support pricing decisions and operational improvements;
• Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, attention to detail and interpersonal skills;
• Strong ability to work independently, balance multiple hi-pri mandates, in a fast-paced environment;
• Strong ability to create relationships with XFN teams.

This assignment will be full-time, working from the London office. Flexible working offered; however core hours are expected due to collaborative nature of this project and the organisation. This opportunity will initially run for 12 months with the view to extend.

If this sounds like you and you’re looking for your next opportunity, we’d love to hear from you.

Why Join LOD?

People come to us for a whole range of reasons – they might be looking for time for their interests, for work alongside other projects, or just want a change. What they all have in common is a desire for high-quality work coupled with a degree of control that traditional models can’t offer, but LOD can. All of our LODs have worked at top-tier firms or as part of major in-house teams. We only accept a small percentage of applications as we choose lawyers who are not only technically excellent, but who can work seamlessly with our client’s teams. This ensures we can offer our lawyers consistently high-quality assignments.

What we offer:

• Varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with market-leading brands (from Google to Barclays, and Adidas to growth companies);
• Flexibility and autonomy: you can work anything from full-time onsite with a client to a few hours each week from home;
• Training and know-how, as well as support from our dedicated HQ Team;
• A variety of flexible models that include working at the client’s offices or remotely.

About LOD:

LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across ten locations: Brisbane, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Sydney. We are changing the way in which clients buy legal services and provide talented lawyers with a new way of working. We’ve achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category. That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to how our lawyers want to work and how clients want to engage them. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story. LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have a team of around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working across the globe. We have an inspiring client list that ranges from globally recognised multinationals to start-ups and includes the likes of Google, Barclays and Adidas.