Legal Pricing Manager

Our customer, a Fortune 50 Technology Company is looking for a Legal Pricing Manager with 8+ years' experience with Outside Counsel Management; Law Firm Pricing; AFAs; and Project Management for a contract engagement starting ASAP.

The work will be performed on site 5-days a week at the London office.

Job responsibilities

Support the Legal Operations Manager, EMEA Lead with -

• Assisting 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 AFA’s;
• Running RFPs including attending follow-up interviews with Outside Counseland 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 acrossthe EMEA region;
• Draft process documents and playbooks;
• Negotiations with law firms on pricing individual matters.

Skills and experience

Essential:

• Prior experience at an in-house legal department or 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 solutionsthrough financial modellingto support pricing decisions and operational improvements
• Verbal and written communication skills, problem solvingskills, 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.
• Technologically savvy and experienced with Google and Microsoft suites

Preferred:

• Prior experience at a Tech, Financial Servicesor Life Sciencescompany
• Familiarity with eBilling software
• Familiarity with RFP software
• Familiarity with Tableau and other dashboarding tools

About Elevate

Elevate provides consulting, technology and services to law departments and law firms across the globe. Headquartered in Los Angeles, our 1,600+ strong team of legal professionals, lawyers, consultants, project managers, and engineers operate across the United States, Europe, UK, and Asia, Hong Kong and Australia.

ElevateFlex, is the flexible resourcing capability within Elevate, we define and support a new flexible career within the legal industry. We match exceptional legal professionals to the evolving needs of our Customers through the curation of a world-class, global Community of Talent, and advanced, technology-enabled search. We were recently proud to be assessed in Band 1 of Chamber’s Global Flexible Legal Resourcing category.

Our Vision is a world where legal and business teams achieve incredible outcomes, together.

Equitability and Inclusion are critical to ElevateFlex’s success. As The Law Company, changing the legal business landscape, we know a diverse, inclusive work culture is at the heart of attracting, retaining, and celebrating the industry’s most talented people. We empower our employees to bring their whole selves to work because we know that diversity of experience and perspective drive innovation and is simply good business.

As a strong proponent of diversity, equitability, and inclusion, ElevateFlex is committed to hiring diverse candidates from all backgrounds. We invite you to apply to become part of the ElevateFlex Team – help us change the legal business landscape and make a dent in the legal universe.