At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead high-profile events and global launches, ensuring exceptional customer experiences.
- Company: Join McLaren, a luxury brand known for innovation and excellence.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days' holiday, private medical insurance, and a structured career development framework.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities to influence and shape future event strategies.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of impactful events with international travel and hands-on leadership.
- Qualifications: Experience in event management and strong budget management skills required.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
Overview
In this role you drive end-to-end operational delivery for Mc Laren’s global Experiences portfolio, leading high-profile events and global launches.
You’ll provide senior operational leadership, manage budgets and supplier relationships, and shape scalable delivery standards across the Experiences function.
You’ll collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver exceptional customer experiences while mitigating risks and ensuring governance.
This is a hands-on leadership role with international travel and weekend work, focused on impactful, luxury-brand events.
- Pay / Benefits
- Structured career development framework
- 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
- Annual buy & sell up to five days
- Enhanced company pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Private medical insurance and health cash plan
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end planning and delivery of allocated events with accountability for objectives, budgets, quality and customer experience
- Act as Event Lead on designated events with full responsibility for planning, stakeholder coordination, supplier management and post-event outcomes
- Lead operational delivery workstreams across major global events, product launches, hospitality programmes and PURE experiences
- Develop delivery strategies, operational plans and implementation approaches aligned with programme objectives
- Adapt plans and reallocate resources to respond to changing event requirements
- Create and maintain project plans, critical paths, run sheets, risk registers and contingency frameworks
- Lead supplier selection, performance management and contract delivery across programmes
- Manage operational budgets, forecasts and expenditure with strong financial control
- Approve and implement risk mitigation within governance frameworks
- Oversee venue, accommodation, transport, hospitality, fleet and logistics planning across multiple projects
- Provide on-site operational leadership during live events and direct agencies and production teams
- Build relationships with senior stakeholders across Brand, PR, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, CRM and regional teams
- Lead post-event evaluations and embed lessons learned into future planning
- Drive improvements in event governance, templates and operating procedures across Experiences
- Provide leadership and development support to Event Specialists and delivery resources
- Contribute operational insights to future programme planning and capacity requirements
- Ensure activity adheres to Mc Laren brand standards, customer experience expectations and health and safety obligations
- Key requirements
- Significant experience in event management, experiential marketing or programme delivery leading complex or international events
- Strong experience managing large budgets, supplier contracts and agency relationships
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional delivery teams and influence stakeholders
- Experience managing operational risk, governance and compliance in live events
- Advanced project and program management capability
- Strong commercial awareness and budget ownership
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience in luxury, premium hospitality, automotive or lifestyle sectors preferred
- Understanding of customer experience and brand standards in experiential delivery
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
- ownership and accountability
- decisiveness under pressure
- highly organized and detail-oriented
- Microsoft Office applications
- project/program management
- budgeting and financial control
Event Operations Lead in Woking 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.
