Cost Draftsperson

**Cost Draftsperson**

**Hybrid**Offices in Southport, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds & Bolton

**Ready to Take Your Costs Career Further? Weve Got the Opportunity for You.**

Were a fast-growing law firm specialising in Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury, and were looking for a talented Cost Draftsperson to join our team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with strong drafting skills and a keen eye for detail to play a vital role in ensuring costs are accurately prepared, managed, and recovered. You will work closely with our legal teams, providing expert support and advice, helping to shape cost strategies, and contributing directly to the success of the firm.

**Why Join Us?**
- Career growth with clear progression routes
- A supportive, collaborative team environment
- The chance to make a real impact in peoples lives

If youve got sharp drafting skills and an eye for detail, wed love to hear from you.

**In return Fletchers can offer**:

- 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
- 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

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Preparation of detailed bills of costs, costs schedules and costs estimates.
- Review of opponents points of dispute and preparation of replies.
- Preparation of costs budgets.
- Reviewing opponents costs budgets, preparing BDRs, Precedent Ts and entering into negotiations.
- Potential to attend CCMC hearings.
- Ensuring that the quality of work produced is to the highest standard.
- Management of daily workloads as well as achieving service level agreements.
- Be able to work to deadlines and prioritise matters to ensure targets are delivered.
- Ensuring that the Client is regularly updated as to the current situation on matters;
- Ensuring that care is taken to ensure good working relationships with internal colleagues;
- Being responsible for maximising the firms profitability whilst maintaining the highest Client care standard;
- Adhering to the firms policies.
- Any other duties as reasonably required by the business.

**Essential Skills and Experience**:

- Proven experience of drafting bills of costs and costs budgets
- 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

**About Fletchers Solicitors**:
Fletchers is a fast-growing, dynamic law firm specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence law, with outstanding rankings in both _The Legal 500_ and _Chambers & Partners_. Following several strategic acquisitions, weve evolved into the Fletchers Group, with ambitious plans for continued growth and innovation.

We work across England, with offices currently in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Bolton, Southport, Newcastle, Reading, Birmingham, Northampton and Cambridge. We believe we offer our colleagues the best hybrid and flexible working practices, balancing working from home with time collaborating and socialising with colleagues in our modern offices.

We aspire to be the best place to work in the legal sector.

Our workplace culture is inclusive, informal, and supportive, with a strong focus on colleague wellbeing and happiness. We are proud to offer some of the best hybrid and flexible working arrangements in the industry because we understand that balance drives performance.

At Fletchers, we also value connection and collaboration. We create exciting opportunities for teams to come together and thrive. Whether youre starting your career or aiming for leadership, youll find a clear path to progress and development here from apprenticeships and professional qualifications to senior roles and Partnership.

We seek out a broad range of challenging, high-quality legal work, enabling our people to build meaningful and progressive careers. And we dont just talk about development we invest in it, with a significant proportion of our colleagues working towards relevant qualifications at any given time.

We reward those who help build our success and live our values. Our benefits package is designed to grow with you, offering real opportunities to share in our long-term strength. Our base pay and bonus structure is built to recognise and reward high performance.

Join us and be part of a law firm tha