Senior Specialist, Performance and Development

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, 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’ll work 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.