Deputy National Legal Costing Manager

• Competitive salary on offer, plus super, plus proven path to progression
• Leverage your legal skills to develop your team with big firm support
• Join a passionate team who really care about our clients

A place for you. It means more here. We bring true purpose, authentic people and a proven path. You bring you.

The Opportunity

At Shine, we champion better justice for our clients. And as our full-time, permanent Deputy National Legal Costing Manager, that starts with you. This role is to be based out of either our Brisbane CBD head office, or our Melbourne CBD office – it’s up to you. And it’s a great opportunity to bring your expertise as a legal costing solicitor to driving the performance of a nationally disbursed, internally focused legal costing team. You’ll have a strong team of eight reporting into you, and you’ll be responsible for their day-to-day leadership – coaching them to success and driving strong outcomes.

Reporting to our national legal costing manager, you will work closely with and learn from an industry leader – with a clearly defined succession plan in place. If you're looking to either continue in, or progress into a leadership role, and are ready to take on more responsibility with a view to long-term national leadership, we want to hear from you.

You'll be part of a truly connected team of authentic people who are as passionate as you are. With empathy, adaptability and initiative, you will be a true champion of our clients by:

• Assisting the national legal costing manager in managing team performance by allocating workloads effectively.
• Acting as an escalation point for complex legal costing issues, proactively resolving them with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Providing recommendations on optimal costing methodologies (court scale and loading, hourly rates, fixed fee and hybrid models) across various jurisdictions to maximise case recoverability.
• Training legal teams on time recording practices, enhancing cost recovery efficiency.
• Coaching legal, settlement and third-party recovery teams on cost management, including costs agreements, cost recovery strategies, and negotiation of settlements.
• Preparing accurate and comprehensive costs assessments for compulsory conferences, mediations, and post-resolution proceedings to optimise recoverability.
• Developing strategies to reduce client complaints regarding costs, thereby improving client service.
• Monitoring compliance and relevant legislative and jurisdictional costing requirements.

What you’ll bring

• Significant demonstrated experience as a legal costing solicitor, with a thorough understanding of optimal costing methodologies
• Experience and/or the desire and aptitude to lead a high-performing team.
• Commercial acumen, with the ability to drive enhancements to cost recovery efficiency.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage internal stakeholders, clients, and third parties, including external cost assessors.
• Strong statistical and numerical understanding of data, including strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• A commitment to truly connect with those around you and work together to deliver exceptional results for our clients.
• The ability to deliver outcomes across a variety of competing priorities.

Shine Lawyers: A place for you. It means more here.

At Shine, purpose really matters.

• It’s our clients, who summon the courage to stand up to injustice.
• It’s the communities we are part of and support every day.
• It’s our team, who champion what’s right and make this place what it is.

We’re an ASX-listed organisation, and we've been standing up for the rights of everyday Australians for more than 45 years. We’ve achieved a lot, but you’ll find no airs and graces here. We’re humble yet relentless. We don’t pretend to be anything other than ourselves. And together, we’ve created a place for you to thrive.

Here are some of the things we hope you’ll love about working with us:

• Connect and be you: Get the benefits you need, and work with truly authentic people. And you can enjoy the security of a large, well-established firm that treats you as a person, not a number.
• Challenge and be challenged: We’re not here for “easy”. We want you to take your place at Shine and make a real impact. Question and challenge - that’s how we grow.
• Achieve and grow: Start your Shine journey with our in-house learning programs, where you’ll find immediate connection and be set up for success. You will be provided real opportunities to step up and grow - within your role and beyond.

Visit https://www.shine.com.au/careers/life-shine to find out more and read the stories of our incredible people.

Excited to join us and stand up to injustice? Join us and build a career that means so much more.

Apply now and make Shine Justice a place for you.

As part of The Circle Back Initiative, we want you to feel supported through our recruitment process, which means that you will hear back from our friendly team – no matter the outcome.

We are committed to making Shine Lawyers a place for you by encouraging and supporting our people to bring their authentic selves to the workplace, and as a result, we know you’ll put your best self forward while righting wrong for our clients. We’re passionate about maintaining a diverse and inclusive environment here at Shine that celebrates all of our differences with age, disability, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, to name a few, and we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates. You bring you.