Senior Specialist, Performance and Development

Motorsport-Total.com GmbH; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading motorsport team in Woking seeks a Performance Development Specialist to enhance high-performance culture within their teams. This role involves designing and delivering development experiences, collaborating with diverse functions, and engaging with external providers. The ideal candidate will possess strong project management skills and a background in people development. The team offers a hybrid working model based at the iconic McLaren Technology Centre, along with a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Private healthcare

Car schemes

Life insurance

Generous pension contributions

Access to gym and dining facilities

Qualifications

• Experience in a matrixed organisation within engineering or technology sector.
• Strong project management skills.
• Ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Embed high-performance culture into team operations.
• Deliver high performance leadership programmes.
• Enhance onboarding experiences for new starters.

Skills

People development

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Creative problem solving

Coaching and mentoring

Job description

Job description

At McLaren Racing,we’renot just here to try to take the chequered flag.We’rehere to excite our fans, inspire our people and deliver for our partners. Andwe’realso committed to evolving our sport, our industry, and our technology, too

Purpose of the Role:

The People Team is a highly valued and dynamic business performance partner, offering services across a range of diverse functions and departments within our highly competitive racing teams. It’s a unique and fast-paced sports environment, so we are looking for the best in our industry to lead change and keep pushing boundaries.

In this role you’ll be the subject matter expert within McLaren Racing who will design and deliver a range of performance and development experiences that will embed and enhance our high-performance culture and enable our team to perform at their peak. We are looking for an individual that can bring a different perspective to the traditional learning and development space – either from Performance/Sports Psychology, Coaching or other high-performance specialisms or who has worked in people development within sport.

From management and leadership development to digital learning and early careers programmes, you’ll work across McLaren Racing to support our team to continuously learn, improve and challenge themselves through immersive and impactful interventions.

Day-to-day,you’llwork closely with the wider People Experience, Business Partnering, DEI and Talent teams on initiatives with a focus on optimising performance through our people. The role will also see you collaborating with our Internal Communications teams on the delivery and evaluation of activities and interventions.

Given the high-performance environment, this role requires credibility, adaptability, and a performance-focused approach, along with being a strong collaborator, communicator, and relationship builder.

Your day-to-day

You’ll spend your time:

• Embedding our high-performance culture into the way we operate as a team, whether that’s induction and onboarding, performance or development>
• Responsible for the delivery of our high performance leadership programme to ensure that leaders across McLaren Racing are equipped to inspire, enable and set high standards every day
• Identifying and engaging with world class providers, speakers and tools that enhance our development offering.
• Designing and delivering best-in-class high performance development interventions in an agile and accessible way to a complex group of stakeholders, including inspiration speakers, informal networking, experiential learning and coaching.
• Delivering 1:1 or group coaching to select individuals and teams in order to optimize individual and team performance and cohesion utilizing coaching and psychometric tools to deliver content and sessions
• Enhancing our new starter onboarding and induction experiences to ensure new team members are embedded culturally and practically as quickly as possible into their teams
• Supporting leaders and team members to have continuous and impactful performance conversations, providing expertise and toolkits to embed our high-performance culture at all levels of the organisation
• Own the relationships with providers within our learning ecosystem including systems, consultants and facilitators.

Job requirements

Your story

To join our race for performance, you’ll need:

• A background working in, or with, a matrixed organisation within the engineering or technology sector either in house or with a consultancy/training organisation
• A knowledge of people development, with solid experience of scoping, designing and delivering initiatives that support it.
• Experience of building strong partnerships to deliver creative and innovative solutions, and an ability to prioritise, that enables you to craft solutions that support a variety of needs.
• Knowledge of apprenticeship programme set up, management and optimisation would be beneficial.
• The confidence to deliver content in an engaging way, whether it’s delivering training, pitching strategies, or presenting to large audiences.
• Strong project management skills, and an ability to switch from big picture thinking to operational detail.
• A creative and proactive approach to continuously improving the way we work.
• An ability to engage, influence and persuade stakeholders at every level of the organisation.

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.