At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive product strategy and lifecycle for McLaren’s innovative vehicle programmes.
- Company: Join the iconic McLaren team, shaping the future of automotive excellence.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days holiday, enhanced pension, private medical insurance, and a sabbatical option.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with structured career development and exciting global opportunities.
- Why this job: Influence world-class automotive products and make a real impact in the industry.
- Qualifications: Deep automotive knowledge and strong stakeholder management skills required.
The predicted salary is between 49500 - 60500 £ per year.
In this role you drive product definition and lifecycle for McLaren’s vehicle programmes, shaping strategy, features, and go-to-market plans. You will act as the voice of the customer, aligning cross-functional teams to maximise value across customer, brand, and finance. You’ll manage trade-offs between performance, cost, and compliance while crafting compelling product proposals for senior leadership. This is a chance to influence a world-class automotive portfolio and push innovative, market-ready products forward.
Pay / Benefits
- Structured career development
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Private medical insurance
- Sabbatical option after two years’ service
Responsibilities
- Coordinate market studies and research to inform positioning
- Translate positioning into USPs and Why-Buys
- Lead product lifecycle management and attribute/content positioning
- Develop price and business case inputs for trims, options accessories
- Create customer-facing messaging and marketing assets with the Marketing team
- Develop product guides and technical data for internal and external stakeholders
- Support go-to-market activities and sales training materials
- Represent McLaren at press and marketing events
- Drive change control and governance of product direction documents
- Refine the business case with Strategy, Engineering and Finance teams
- Monitor vehicle sales performance to optimise lifecycle and profitability
Key requirements
- Deep automotive industry knowledge including customer, competition, trends, technologies, legislation, and pricing
- Ability to balance competing requirements (customer, financial, technical, regulatory) for maximum business value
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration across the business
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Experience in product, strategy, design, engineering or marketing within an automotive OEM context
- Pan-European or global experience is desirable
- Experience with new mobility, electrification and circular economy concepts is advantageous
- Strong commercial acumen and data-driven decision making
- Knowledge of market trends analysis, segmentation and pricing
- Ability to define and execute formal product development processes
- Tenacious
- Open and transparent
- Passion for automotive products
- Market research and competitive benchmarking
- Product lifecycle management
- Pricing, value indexing and options analysis
Product Manager in Surrey employer: McLaren Group
McLaren Automotive is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic and fast-paced work environment in Woking, where innovation meets collaboration. With a strong focus on employee growth, we provide structured career development, generous benefits including enhanced pension schemes and flexible lifestyle options, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion that fosters a supportive culture. Join our high-performing team and be part of a community dedicated to pushing the boundaries of automotive excellence.
