Senior Specialist, People Partner – Production and Operations in Surrey

At McLaren, our mission is to set the standard for high performance in sport. And everyone, in every part of the team, has a role to play. So if you want to test your ideas with the world watching, measure your progress in milliseconds, and play your part in racing history, you belong here. High performance starts with you.

As Senior Specialist, People Engineer, you’ll join us to support the team on our high-performance journey, providing exceptional HR service across the F1 function of McLaren Racing Limited (‘MRL’): delivering a progressive people agenda, helping to support the delivery of long‑term business planning, and developing – as well as providing – HR solutions to ensure a great employee experience. You will collaboratively craft the People Strategy with your senior leaders to help take our People Partnering to the next level. You will be the first point of call for senior managers in departments across our F1 Production and Operations function but may also support other areas at MRL when required. You will be confident in providing tailored, operational advice and support, and rolling out agreed initiatives. As a confident HR practitioner, you will be able to act as a sounding board, provide key solutions as well as build and foster strong working relationships – being an integral part of the teams you support.

As a People Partner, you will be an ambassador of the strategy when speaking with teams and Managers, ensuring that any key initiatives link to the People and Culture strategy.

Job requirements:

• Promoting a partnering mentality and approach to build and maintain excellent working relationships with key internal stakeholders to ensure their appropriate engagement and involvement.
• Previous demonstrable HR experience, including strong employee relation knowledge and case management skills, ideally in a manufacturing/operations or high‑performance sporting organisation.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong relationship building and stakeholder management.
• A focus on data driven decision making.
• Ability to prioritise a demanding workload.
• Experience of managing complex change and delivery of projects with emphasis on engagement and culture of the team.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment with an agile approach.
• A track record of getting things done.
• MS Office – proficient to at least intermediate level in Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Previous experience working with an HRIS and related employee platforms desirable.
• CIPD Level 5 qualified, or equivalent experience.

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.