Pricing Manager
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
- Create and evaluate alternative pricing scenarios and matter budgets
- Analyze and report on individual matter performance (e.g., budget vs actual) in a timely and accurate manner
- Create and generate matter performance statistics and KPI reports for management and practice groups for a range of matters
- Interact with groups across the organization and work directly with senior leaders and administrators (including Finance, Marketing, IT and Directors of Administration), as well as clients
- Develop Best Practices and benchmarking for pricing and project management for litigation, transactional and other deals
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
- Work independently to refine budgets and analyze performance
- Drive and challenge leaders on their assumptions underpinning their budget proposal
- Analyze market trends and competition
EXPERIENCE SKILLS REQUIRED
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
- Strong analytical skills, most notably with Microsoft Excel
- Exceptional presentation skills, including comfort with PowerPoint
- Ability to organize, analyze and summarize large amounts of data to identify key performance indicators, trends and core concepts
- Anticipate and correct problems, establish conclusions and develop creative solutions
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple priorities in a changing and demanding environment
- Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented environment
- Ability to encourage and build positive relationships and communicate (both verbal and written) effectively with all co-workers and outside vendors
- Effectively manage and communicate confidential issues
- 5+ year’s experience in a senior leadership role
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, statistics, business or equivalent work experience
- Experienced with manufacturing, distribution industry a plus