Pricing and Matter Performance Apprentice – 18 month FTC

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes.  We are recognised by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do. 

We are a collegial, collaborative, and diverse firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realise their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Pricing and Matter Performance Departnent in our London office as an Pricing and Matter Performance Apprentice – 18 month fixed term contract.

PRIMARY - Matter Performance

• To support the Firm's Matter Performance initiatives across the UK, specifically functional support for the Firm's matter management and budgeting systems and processes
• Assist management, practice group leadership and client teams in understanding client and matter economics through the production, interpretation and provision of management and financial analysis

• Provide client-facing, legal services and matter management support, including bespoke status and WIP reports

• Provide local resource to support the Matter Performance team including:
  • Provide functional support for the Firm's matter management/budgeting tool
  • Assisting in the monitoring of matter budgets against actual performance
  • Apply pricing and matter performance principles to the planning, budgeting and execution of legal matters with the aim of increasing efficiencies, enhancing client communications and improving financial performance
  • Implement, provide feedback and continually help to refine new business processes and procedures in relation to the global Matter Performance function.

SECONDARY - Pricing

• To assist the Pricing team in providing pricing and financial support to Partners, Business Development and other Firm personnel in relation to client fee arrangements
• Provide post-matter financial analysis and associated pricing and business insight to Partners, Pricing and Business Development teams
• Leverage artificial intelligence tools and machine learning models to automate pricing, improve efficiencies, extract insights from large datasets, and enhance decision-making processes across key business functions.
• Input pricing opportunities into Foundation for tracking
• Performs other duties as assigned or required to meet Firm goals and objectives

Educated to ‘A’ Level standard or equivalent

Have a minimum of 5 GCSE’s including Maths at grade 5 or above and English at grade 4 or above. 

Apprenticeship Information: This role would be suitable for someone wanting to study for the Level 4 apprenticeship in Project Management. 

Experience/Candidate Specification:

• Strong IT skills with literacy in Microsoft packages including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
• Personable and able and willing to work as part of a team
• Good telephone manner essential
• Adaptable and flexible
• Ability to pay attention to detail and ability to check own work
• Reliable and well organised
• Ability to multi-task and work under pressure
• Accurate spelling and punctuation
• Strong analytical, evaluative and critical thinking skills, able to analyse data. High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to create strong successful working relationship with clients, partners and staff. Strong team player with ability to listen to others’ opinions and propose creative workable solutions to problems
• Able to articulate points of view clearly and succinctly, with excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Self-motivated, self-directed and proactive, with good organisational and time management skills.

At Mayer Brown, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment that offers our people the opportunity and support they need to succeed. We are therefore happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that individuals may require throughout the recruitment process and once they have joined the Firm.

In addition, one of our core values at Mayer Brown is to promote diversity and inclusion at all levels within the business which is actively supported by our diversity networks - LGBT+, Fusion (Race and Ethnicity), Women, Enable (Disability) and Work and Me (Family).