Senior Cost Negotiator

6 months ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom Fletchers Solicitors Full time

**Senior Cost Negotiator**

**Location: The role will be Hybrid with some attendance to one of the offices Southport, Liverpool, Leeds or Manchester**

**Fletchers Solicitors Ltd have a fantastic opportunity to join our growing Costs Team.**

In the role you will be working within a busy team and must have the ability to manage your own case load and adhere to SLAs. This is a great opportunity to join a market-leading and expanding firm, at the forefront of clinical negligence litigation. Predominantly dealing with medical negligence and Serious Injury cost cases with experience handling all types of bills of cost.

**About Fletchers Solicitors**:
Fletchers is a rapidly growing law firm specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence law. We are based in the North-West of the UK, with offices in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds & Southport, although many of our colleagues work from home as Fletchers offers Hybrid working. We offer a great work life balance, fabulous benefits, apprenticeships, and internal progression, around 10% of colleagues are currently working on apprenticeships or training contracts - more than ever before - and we are continuing to grow our L&D offering. We have a great culture and people that will support you and your goals.

**Main Responsibilities for the role**:

- Managing own caseload using case management software
- Instruct Counsel to attend Detailed Assessment/Oral review or alternatively conduct own hearings.
- Hit agreed recovery targets.
- Undertaking accurate valuation
- Constant communication with fee earners
- Providing head of team updates on forecasts, recoveries, issue files
- Hit agreed daily chargeable hours target.
- Keep MI fully up to date and accurate.
- Deal with aged debt where applicable
- Review points of dispute
- Assist in bundle preparation.
- Ensure SLA/Pipeline metrics adhered to
- Follow agreed processes.
- Providing legal teams with costs advice
- Attending team meetings
- Providing feedback on recoveries/files/fee earning practices

The above list is not exhaustive of any other tasks, which may be required.
- Proven experience in dealing with high value Litigation and Negotiation cases.
- Experience of Proclaim
- Experience of Cost Master
- Organisational, planning and communication skills.
- Excellent customer service skills
- Good general IT skills
- Time management
- Ability to use initiative.
- Working effectively within a team.
- Attention to detail and the ability to meet tight deadlines.

**In return Fletchers can offer**:

- Competitive salary
- 35 hours working week.
- 35 days holiday a year including bank holidays and Christmas Closure, you also have an option to purchase up to 3 extra days holiday per year, until you long service award the 3 days after your 5th, 7th, and 9th full year of employment
- Pension scheme with tax-efficient salary sacrifice option.
- Life Assurance Policy
- Medicash policy to cover some Dental, optical, and other medical expenses.
- Enhanced company sick pay
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and IVF schemes
- Flexible, agile working environment with a positive work-life balance
- Varied calendar of funded company social events (check out Fletchers Group on LinkedIn)
- Monthly voucher awards

**So much has happened in the last year at Fletchers**:

- We became Fletchers Group following several acquisitions and have big plans for more growth.
- We offered legal colleagues more training contracts than ever before.
- Retained excellent rankings with both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners
- We opened 2 new office locations in Leeds and Liverpool (alongside Southport and Manchester)
- We launched our first ever Associate and Partner programmes for senior lawyers.
- We launched the Fletchers Foundation charity to support injured people.

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