Pricing Analyst

Summary:

Barnes & Thornburg's pricing team is responsible for partnering with firm leadership, attorneys, and other personnel to develop and manage hourly and non-hourly matters and install scalable data capture processes to meet the needs of client business objectives. The Pricing Analyst reports to the firm’s Director of Pricing and supports a variety of the firm's strategic initiatives. Functionally, the Pricing Analyst will support the pricing team by managing its portfolio of matters for a large number of clients by actively managing tasks and deadlines, analyzing and tracking matter progress, and preparing client ready reports. Responsibilities:

Pricing Strategy & Leadership

• Provide counsel and support to lawyers and other firm personnel in developing pricing proposals, matter budgets, and profitability efforts. - Support the Pricing and Legal Project Management teams in internal and client-facing reporting. This task includes supporting ongoing reporting-improvement initiatives, such as exploring new business intelligence technologies, and working closely with the financial reporting and analysis team as needed. - Analyze historical and current data to support the development of pricing proposals and responses to requests for proposals (RFPs). - Provide market insight, competitive intelligence, and innovative thinking on pricing strategies. - Serve as a supplementary stakeholder of and subject matter expert on the firm’s business intelligence software to provide strategic analytics as they relate to pricing and project management. - Serve as a supplementary administrator of the firm’s matter management technology. - Assess and analyze internal data and convert findings into actionable, concise reports that establish or affirm firm priorities. - Improve data integrity to help drive effective decision making. - Assist with the ongoing enhancement and of budgeting templates and other tools for use by firm attorneys and legal operations personnel. - Produce metrics for internal and external reporting that are provided to the legal operations department and firm leadership. This task includes the extraction of data from the firm’s financial databases and contributing new meaningful metrics. - Provide support in response to ad-hoc requests from firm attorneys and leadership. - Other duties as assigned. The employee must be able to perform all essential job duties and responsibilities of this position satisfactorily and as outlined, with or without reasonable accommodations. Reasonable accommodation requests may be accommodated, absent undue firm hardship.