AI & Matter Pricing Senior Advisor

Linklaters LLP; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Private Medical Insurance

Free in-house fitness centre

Free onsite GP service

Pension and flexible savings options

Income protection and life assurance

Mortgage advice and will-writing

Job summary

Linklaters LLP is seeking an AI & Matter Pricing Senior Advisor to lead the firm’s pricing strategy for complex legal matters, including AI-enabled delivery. You will advise partners on innovative pricing, model development, and alternative fee arrangements to achieve commercially strong outcomes.

You will work across Finance and the wider business to embed pricing governance, develop tools, and drive continuous improvement in pricing capabilities, while collaborating with Legal Tech, matter

Qualifications

• At least three years' experience in a pricing role, ideally within legal or wider professional services.
• Strong commercial awareness with a client-focused mindset.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to work under pressure.
• Collaborative and flexible in a multidisciplinary global team.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across Legal, Legal Tech, Finance, Matter Optimisation and Legal Project Management to develop commercial proposals for complex matters with AI-enabled delivery.
• Develop bespoke financial models and pricing scenarios, supporting negotiations and alternative fee arrangements.
• Create and maintain standardised pricing models, improving consistency and response times.
• Project manage the financial aspects of complex matter proposals, coordinating milestones and governance.
• Advise Partners on pricing strategy and commercial terms, including client engagement when needed.
• Ensure pricing arrangements are documented and implemented within firm systems and processes.
• Drive pricing capability development through market analysis, training, and AI use-case testing.

Skills

Continuous Improvement

Data Analysis

Data Management

Financial Modeling

Pricing Governance

Stakeholder Management

Pricing Operations Management

Job description

As an AI & Matter Pricing Senior Advisor, you will lead the firm's pricing approach for complex legal matters, including those incorporating technology and AI-assisted delivery. Acting as a trusted expert, you will advise partners and senior stakeholders on innovative pricing strategies, financial modelling and alternative fee arrangements to support commercially strong outcomes. You will also play a key role in developing and embedding advanced pricing capabilities across the firm, working collaboratively across Finance and the wider business to strengthen tools, governance and best practice.,

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively across legal, Legal Tech, Finance, Matter Optimisation and Legal Project Management teams to develop compelling commercial proposals for complex matters, including those involving AI-assisted and technology-enabled delivery.
• Develop bespoke financial models and pricing scenarios for complex matters, providing robust commercial analysis and supporting negotiations, competitive bids and alternative fee arrangements.
• Develop and maintain standardised pricing models and tools for common complex matter scenarios, improving consistency, efficiency and response times across the firm.
• Project manage the financial aspects of complex matter proposals, coordinating stakeholders, managing key milestones and ensuring alignment with proposal, negotiation and governance requirements.
• Guide fee proposals through relevant internal approval processes, providing commercial challenge and recommendations while identifying opportunities to strengthen pricing governance and best practice.
• Advise Partners and senior stakeholders on pricing strategy, commercial terms and negotiation approaches, including engaging directly with clients where required to support commercially sustainable outcomes.
• Ensure agreed pricing and fee arrangements are accurately documented and implemented within the firm's systems and processes, working closely with lawyers, project managers, billers and other relevant teams.
• Drive the continued development of the firm's pricing capability through market and trend analysis, reporting and insight, training and knowledge sharing, and the testing and application of AI use cases within pricing.

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing
• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments
• Finance
• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services
• Family & Lifestyle
• Electric car and cycle to work schemes
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

Technical Skills

• Continuous Improvement
• Data Analysis
• Data Management
• Data Verification
• Financial Analysis
• Financial Modeling
• Pricing Analysis
• Pricing Governance
• Pricing Operations Management
• Process Automations
• Regulatory Compliance
• Stakeholder Management

Qualifications & Requirements

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

• At least three years' experience in a pricing role, ideally within the legal or wider professional services sector.
• A proactive and self-motivated approach, with the ability to take ownership and responsibility for key areas of work.
• Strong commercial awareness and a client-focused mindset, with a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to maintain accuracy and sound judgement when working under pressure.
• A collaborative and flexible approach, with the ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary and global team.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to work effectively with a range of stakeholders across the business.

Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional. We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction. Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere. We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

This role can be based in our London offices, with a hybrid working model available.