Regional Pricing Manager

Bird & Bird; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Bird & Bird is seeking a Regional Pricing Manager to provide analytical pricing support within a growing commercial accounts team. The successful candidate will manage pricing strategies and enhance profitability through collaboration and effective communication across the firm. The role is based in London, requires strong Excel skills, and supports professional development within an inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience in a professional services environment preferred.
• Pride in delivering excellence while managing stakeholder expectations.

Responsibilities

• Provide analytical pricing support to senior stakeholders and management.
• Streamline the annual rates setting process and manage pricing requests.
• Communicate with the business on pricing strategies and implement efficiencies.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Analytical skills

Effective communication

Time management

People skills

Focus on accuracy

Education

Formal finance qualification

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We are looking for an enthusiastic and dependable analyst to join the well-established and growing commercial accounts team providing support to the immediate team, pricing function and the fee earning community across the firm as a business facing member of the accounting department.

The firm

Bird & Bird opens up a world of possible for lawyers and professionals everywhere. Here you can advise major enterprises and high-growth businesses on matters that are often transformative in nature, and alongside people who are truly collegiate in the way they work with everyone at Bird & Bird. We are one international firm, where over 70% of our work involves teams from across our firm. And that is only going to increase. It is this common purpose and shared approach that makes for a more productive, and collaborative place to work.

Bird & Bird is committed to maintaining an inclusive working environment and we are an equal opportunities employer. We will actively support and supervise your professional development. For those with the necessary attitude, experience and skills, we will ensure that the firm is a first-class platform on which you can develop into an industry leader. We support an agile working environment and are happy to discuss flexible working.

We are a disability, neurodiversity and mental health inclusive employer and want to ensure that candidates have a barrier-free recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments for any of your interviews or assessments, please email us at [e-mail] for confidential advice. Alternatively, you can call on [phone] to discuss this.

The team

Bird & Bird's Finance team's mission is to provide world class finance support to the business. In London the team comprises of over 70 finance professionals across a wide range of areas including management and financial accounting, transaction processing, partner accounting, tax, treasury, pricing and commercial decision support. Our 32 international offices have their own professionals providing local expertise and support. Collaborative across the network the team are focussed on driving efficiency, adding value and profitable growth.

What you'll do

• You will be the primary point of contact for pricing within the region. Provide analytical pricing support to senior stakeholders and management designed to drive the right behaviours that enhance profitability.
• Assist in streamlining the annual rates setting process, including streamlining of office specific rates and review of all client specific rates.
• Take ownership of large/complex client RFP and pricing requests and work closely with partners, colleagues in BD and with clients to coordinate related decision making.
• Communicate with the business to discuss pricing strategies, brainstorm creative fee proposals, facilitate effective rate management and implement, and optimise efficiencies. Adapt the global pricing strategy to regional market conditions and norms
• Prepare robust models and templates to support analysis of a wide range of fee proposals utilising Firm financial metrics.
• Support wider projects and initiatives led by the wider pricing team designed to enhance financial performance and improve profitability (e.g. cost rate analysis).
• Implement a process for post matter reviews.
• Work alongside the financial systems team to develop reporting capability in Power BI.
• Upskill the pricing ability of finance managers, pricing analysts and senior lawyers within the region.

About you

The successful candidate will possess the following qualities:

• Effective time management is essential. The Pricing team work in a fast paced and sometimes demanding environment, at times working against competing deadlines.
• Strong Excel proficiencies. Examples where experience would be beneficial are (but not limited to) pivot tables, conditional formatting, data validation and other advanced functions.
• Pride in delivery of excellence. Excellent service delivery (time and quality) while maintaining good internal and external relationships and effective communication to manage stakeholder expectations.
• Communication & interpersonal skills. This position involves liaison with colleagues across all levels, distilling financial information to those in both financial and non-financial roles.
• People skills (teamwork). Working collaboratively with the wider pricing team and finance department. Good people skills are essential for cooperation and teamwork.
• Focus on accuracy and attention to detail. To become a reliable and trusted advisor.
• Proficient mathematical and analytical skills.
• Pricing experience is in a professional services environment is preferred

Other desirable skills and experience

• We welcome candidates with excellent academic ability who also hold a formal finance qualification and have experience of working within a professional services environment, but this is not a prerequisite.

The main responsibilities of this role are outlined above; however, this description is not exhaustive, and the job holder may be required to undertake additional duties from time to time to ensure the smooth running of the department. The role may require some working outside our normal working hours of 9:30am- 5:30pm.

Bird & Bird is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive environment. We are delighted to confirm that we have achieved Mansfield UK Certification. This certification was achieved by considering at least 30% women, lawyers from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, lawyers with disabilities and LGBTQ+ lawyers for at least 70% of UK fee earner and leadership positions. We are committed to continuing to participate in Mansfield Rule UK and continue to work towards ensuring a diverse pool of candidates are considered for our roles, in line with the Mansfield Rule. You can read more about this here.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Accounting/Auditing

• Industries

  Law Practice

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