The posting
About us: 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.
The Role:
We are looking for a Pricing Manager to join us on a 12 month fixed-term contract, playing a key role in supporting the firm’s pricing strategy to maximise margin and recovery. You will provide expert analysis on global fee arrangements, contribute to fee negotiations, and act as a trusted pricing specialist in partner-facing discussions. Working closely with stakeholders across Finance and the wider business, you will manage responses to global fee deals, drive process improvements, and ensure accurate documentation and data management within SAP. This role offers strong exposure across the firm, with opportunities to contribute to strategic decision-making and continuous improvement within a collaborative, high-performing Finance team.
Your Key Responsibilities:
- Support the development and implementation of the firm’s pricing strategy, ensuring alignment with wider business objectives.
- Lead and contribute to global fee negotiations, defining strategic positions with Client Relationship Partners and engaging directly with clients where required.
- Ensure appropriate governance by supporting submissions to the Client Pricing Committee and guiding stakeholders through the approval process.
- Deliver high-quality financial modelling and analysis at panel and matter level, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and commercial relevance.
- Provide clear, practical pricing recommendations that balance risk, market dynamics, and profitability considerations.
- Drive continuous improvement across pricing processes, tools, and reporting, including delivering training and monitoring pricing performance.
- Act as a trusted commercial adviser, influencing senior stakeholders and Partners through insight, challenge, and strong relationship management.
- Manage, develop, and mentor team members, while promoting knowledge sharing and the adoption of best practice across the team and wider business.
What we’re looking for:
- Proven experience in Pricing or Commercial Finance, preferably within a professional services environment.
- Strong financial and analytical capability, with advanced numeracy and reporting skills; experience with SAP and/or Tableau is advantageous.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly present financial insights and influence senior stakeholders and Partners.
- Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to establish trust, demonstrate empathy, and act as a credible adviser.
- Proactive and self-motivated, with a strong sense of ownership and the ability to perform accurately under pressure.
- A collaborative, flexible team player with a strong client service mindset and a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes.
What's on offer:
This role can be based in our London offices, with a hybrid working model available.
Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:
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)
If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!
Technical Skills
Competitive Intelligence (CI), Continuous Improvement, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Insight Generation, Pricing Analysis, Pricing Governance, Pricing Strategies, Regulatory Compliance, Revenue Management, Stakeholder Management
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.
Application Policy
Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders ([email protected] for legal roles or [email protected] for business team roles).
