# Costs Negotiator

**Company**: Davies
**Location**: Southampton
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

We're looking for an experienced Costs Negotiator to join our supportive Costs team in Southampton, working closely with colleagues across the wider Complex Injury Division.

This is a great opportunity to develop your technical ability through a varied caseload involving costs arising from high-value and complex injury claims, including Employers’ Liability (EL), Public Liability (PL) and Road Traffic Accident (RTA) matters. Your caseload will include a mixture of fixed recoverable costs and hourly-rate work, providing plenty of variety and scope to develop your experience.

## Key Responsibilities

You'll manage your own caseload, taking costs matters through to settlement or assessment, while working collaboratively with colleagues across the wider team. Key responsibilities will include:

- Reviewing, assessing and negotiating costs claims

- Preparing Points of Dispute and considering and responding to replies

- Progressing cases through provisional and detailed assessment

- Drafting costs budgets, Budget Discussion Reports and Precedent Ts

- Conducting costs budget negotiations

- Reviewing files, setting strategy and identifying key strengths and weaknesses

- Preparing and maintaining costs strategy reports throughout the life of a case

- Providing clear and accurate advice and updates to clients

- Negotiating positive and commercially effective outcomes for clients

- Managing your caseload effectively to meet deadlines and service-level agreements

- Drafting or opposing relevant applications and, where appropriate, supporting matters through detailed assessment

## Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

We're looking for someone with previous costs negotiation experience who is comfortable managing their own caseload. You'll ideally have:

- Experience preparing Points of Dispute and considering replies

- Experience progressing matters towards provisional and detailed assessment

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Previous client liaison experience

- Confident telephone negotiation skills

- The ability to organise and prioritise a busy workload

- Good decision-making skills and the ability to use your own initiative

- A collaborative approach and the ability to work effectively as part of a team

A degree, LPC, ALCD or equivalent qualification would be advantageous, as would previous advocacy experience.

## Benefits

Working at Keoghs as part of The Davies Group, you will receive a host of benefits that can be flexed to suit your needs:

- Hybrid working

- Entry into the Davies Incentive Plan

- Private medical insurance

- Permanent health insurance

- Critical illness cover

- Health Care Cash Plan

- Holidays 25 days plus 8 bank holidays (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days), holidays rise to 26 days after 5 years’ service and 27 days after 10 years’ service

- Death In Service – after 1 year

- Employer Pension Contribution

- Cycle to Work Scheme, Tech Scheme, Season Ticket Loan, Gym Flex

## Skills

### Required
- costs negotiation
- case management
- client liaison
- telephone negotiation
- written and verbal communication

### Nice to have
- advocacy experience
- LPC
- ALCD

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