Senior Manager: Pricing (Europe)

Overview Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do. We are a collegial and collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realise their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm. If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Global Pricing and Matter Performance in our London office as a Senior Manager: Pricing (Europe). The Role: Senior Manager: Pricing (Europe) The Senior Manager, Pricing (Europe) will be the senior-most pricing professional based in Europe and will lead the delivery of pricing support across the region. Working as part of the global Pricing CIMA, ACCA, MBA or comparable professional qualification. Experience, skills and personal attributes: Significant experience providing pricing, commercial, financial or profitability support within a partnership or professional services environment, preferably a law firm. A strong track record of influencing senior stakeholders and translating financial and commercial analysis into practical pricing recommendations. Demonstrated experience supporting fee discussions, commercial negotiations, rate reviews and alternative fee arrangements. Experience leading workstreams or a regional service offering and managing, mentoring or developing team members. Ability to build strong working relationships with clients, partners and colleagues, listen to differing perspectives and propose creative, workable solutions. Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the credibility to communicate clearly and succinctly with partners, Business Development, Finance, Firm management and other stakeholders. Experience operating in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, ideally as part of a broader team focused on professional services pricing, financial analysis, legal operations, legal technology, or practice or engagement management. Advanced capability in creating, developing and maintaining financial models in a pricing context. Thorough working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint. Experience with Power BI is desirable, and SQL skills are an advantage. Experience with GenAI platforms (Harvey, Copilot, GPT, Claude, etc.) is highly desirable. Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities and organise work effectively. Knowledge of multi-currency financial systems commonly used in the legal industry, preferably Aderant Expert. Strong analytical, evaluative and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to analyse data and present meaningful, usable insights to partners and Firm management. Strong commercial acumen, accuracy and attention to detail. Self-motivated, proactive and well organised, with the ability to anticipate client, partner and team needs. At Mayer Brown, we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment that offers our people the opportunity and support they need to succeed. Our culture promotes mutual respect, acceptance, cooperation and productivity among people from all backgrounds and values different perspectives and ideas. One of our core values at Mayer Brown is to promote inclusion at all levels within the business which is actively supported by our Employee Resource Groups - LGBTQIA+, Fusion (Race