Senior Specialist, Accelerator - High Performance Programmes

At McLaren Racing, we’re not just here to try to take the chequered flag. We’re here to excite our fans, inspire our people and deliver for our partners. And we’re also committed to evolving our sport, our industry, and our technology.

The McLaren Accelerator function is a team of specialist practitioners in McLaren Racing and our wider network, applying our expertise, processes and culture from elite motorsport to help overcome our Partners' business challenges. We combine F1-derived technology and cultural approach with the Partner’s specialist domain knowledge, to deliver measurable results against their objectives. Our High-Performance Programmes deliver this knowledge and experience to partners via immersive and engaging leadership training offerings.

Purpose of the Role:

• Lead one or two High-Performance Programmes for our commercial partners, making McLaren Racing’s expertise available to our partner organisations.
• Utilise your Partner management skills to support and navigate complex stakeholder landscapes.
• Ensure programmes are well structured and continually deliver on the partner goals.
• Be the day-to-day point of contact for the partner team and develop partner high Performance and Culture programmes incorporating numerous exciting offerings, topics and delivery styles.
• Play a key role in coordinating and developing the programmes as well as the content behind them.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Relationship management of key stakeholders and be a day-to-day point of contact on the projects you are allocated to.
• Develop a deep understanding of partner’s culture/leadership strategies, objectives, and KPI’s / metrics.
• Manage the execution of Culture and Leadership development programmes for our partner organisations, ensuring their successful delivery against contract and KPIs.
• Tailor and develop culture and leadership development content for learning programmes that you and the team are running.
• Facilitate sessions and develop a specialism in an area of our ‘High-Performance’ offering so that you can deliver parts of our training to partner teams.
• Manage logistical elements of programmes, coordinating with attendees, events teams, speakers and virtual delivery providers.
• Work with specialists across the business who will deliver key content to our partner stakeholders.
• Lead in coordination of key assets relating to your culture & leadership programmes, such as supporting on the delivery of collateral, merchandise, internal events, social media and digital assets.
• Work with the broader Accelerator High-Performance team to ensure all projects are inline with our overall strategic approach and to deliver revenue and EBIT targets.
• Work with McLaren’s People and Sustainability teams to ensure synergies and best practice are shared and disseminated across the business.
• Lead on asset tracking against partner rights, to ensure that we are successfully delivering against contracts.
• Support the team on development of new materials, approaches and offerings – in particular we have digital learning offerings we would like you to get involved with.
• Support with idea generation and creative thinking.
• Apply storytelling and any visual communication skills to how we share our offerings.
• Conduct lessons learned exercises, documenting, and then implementing key action points from these reviews.

Job requirements Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Strong relationship and stakeholder management experience/skills - this is critical to the role.
• Results driven Problem Solver – comfortable with ambiguity, learn and adapt previous approaches and problem solve for the partner using appropriate techniques.
• Experience working in consulting or in delivering unique Culture/leadership programmes or have experience operating in a high-performance environment.
• Experience working on talent topics related to: culture, leadership, data, strategy, innovation, lean, human performance (some of).
• Project/programme management and co-ordination experience, working with multifaceted, complex programmes and multiple stakeholders.
• Experience of and confident in facilitating and presenting.
• Experience and comfort working with senior leaders.
• Storytelling skills.
• Experience delivering on time, to budget and against project KPI’s.
• Experience working on DE&I and talent development programmes is a bonus.

Personal Attributes:

• Strong communicator.
• Comfort working at pace through complexity and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• A self-starter with the ability to work in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to apply / work within an agile methodology.
• The ability to switch from big picture thinking to delivering true attention to detail.
• A natural relationship builder with an ability to engage and build relationships with a range of stakeholders across all levels with an ability to influence and persuade – both internally and with Partners.
• Commercial acumen.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a drive for ever great performance and impact.
• A passion for what you do.
• Effective teamworking at a functional and project level - with the ability to adapt effortlessly to working as the lead or as a supporting team member.
• As a relatively new team we are looking for someone who is keen to get stuck in and help across developing areas as well as the day-to-day programme and content development elements of the role.

What can McLaren offer?

We constantly strive to be better tomorrow than we are today. Our ambition is to be the most pioneering and exhilarating racing team in the world, and our collective task is to set the standards for high performance in sport. We show up every day with energy and enthusiasm, ready to play our part.

We encourage and support diversity, equity and inclusion. We will actively promote a culture that values difference and eliminates discrimination in our workplace.

McLaren Racing is based at the iconic McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) near Woking. Here at McLaren, we offer hybrid working with 3 days a week based in the MTC. Our state of the art, sustainable campus offers many facilities including a gym, restaurant and indoor and outdoor break-out areas, as well as direct access to park and common land. The MTC is connected to Woking mainline station via regular shuttle buses, from which London Waterloo is a 30 minute train ride.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including private healthcare, car schemes, life insurance and generous pension contributions.