Senior Pricing and Legal Project Management Specialist

Senior Pricing and Legal Project Management Specialist

Toronto, ON, CA

May 28, 2026

Dentons is designed to be different. Our firm leads the way in a rapidly changing legal marketplace. We challenge the status quo and deliver consistent results as well as uncompromising quality and value to our clients. Our global presence is renowned as a firm with over 21,000 individuals in more than 200 offices serving clients across 80+ countries.

Dentons Canada is committed to its people and communities. We are consistently recognized as an employer of choice having received numerous awards including being selected as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers (2026);
Canada’s Top Employers for Young People (2026), and Canada’s Best Diversity Employers (2026).

This role is an opportunity for you to join Canada's global law firm, a firm that offers opportunities to build your career while growing your skills and deepening your expertise.

This is a new position.

The Senior Pricing and Legal Project Management Specialist is a new role created to build out the firm's pricing capability. The Senior Pricing and Legal Project Management Specialist will report to the Canada Director, Pricing & Legal Project Management, supporting partners across the full pricing lifecycle: scoping and pricing new and ongoing matters, developing matter budgets and Alternative Fee Arrangements (“AFAs”), assisting with the pricing aspects of pitches and proposals, monitoring budget-to-actuals and matter profitability for ongoing matters and portfolios of work, and developing pricing-related reporting for firm leadership.

This is a high-visibility role with direct exposure to partners and firm leadership. It offers significant scope to shape how the Firm approaches pricing across all practice areas and best suits someone with a strong interest in the business of law and the evolving market dynamics of the legal industry.

• Supporting ongoing adherence to the Firm's pricing methodology, policies, and governance
• Set guidance on hourly rates, AFAs, and discounting protocols
• Model AFA scenarios (hourly, fixed, capped, blended, success-based, retainer) and assist with the pricing response to RFPs, panel submissions, and significant client proposals
• Maintain an internal pricing knowledge base and library of precedent fee structures, and scoping and budgeting templates for common matter types
• Brief partners ahead of pricing negotiations and attend client meetings where required

• Act as a trusted advisor to partners on pricing, scoping, and budget management
• Deliver training and coaching to lawyers on commercial pricing concepts
• Support lawyers in client conversations on pricing-related matters

• Scope, design, and price AFAs across all practice groups
• Build budgets, scoping and assumption details, staffing plans, and tracking tools for different fee arrangements
• Monitor AFA performance and budget-to-actuals to flag variances proactively
• Conduct post-matter reviews and feed lessons learned back into pricing methodology

• Serve as the Firm's commercial counterpart to client procurement and legal operations teams
• Respond to client requests for rate cards, budgets, accruals, and reporting
• Build relationships with key client contacts in procurement and legal operations

• Support the sourcing, building or maintenance of matter/client portfolio dashboards covering realization, leverage, matter profitability, and AFA performance
• Provide reporting to the firm’s National Management Committee and Practice Group Leaders
• Conduct ad hoc analysis to support partner decision-making on pricing, scoping, and staffing
• Identify trends and opportunities for improvement in firm-wide pricing performance

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in legal pricing, legal finance, legal operations, professional services pricing, or a related commercial role
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, mathematics, or a related discipline
• Understanding of law firm economics, including realization,…