Diversity, Equity

Job description

At
McLaren Racing, we believe only by chasing performance in everything we do can
we give ourselves the best chance of success. Performance on track and in
the factory. Performance for our people, our business and our
partners. It’s about more than winning. It’s about hitting the
highest standards, and then raising the bar again.

Purpose of the Role:

This role manages delivery of McLaren Racing’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) agenda. Your work will span internal employee education and engagement, delivering social enterprise programmes and influencing our sport and industry to drive meaningful change. You will work within our Sustainability team who own the strategy and delivery of our ambitious targets across our four Sustainability pillars: DE&I, Health and Wellbeing, Net Zero and Circular Economy.

You will collaborate with stakeholders within McLaren Racing, with our race series, social enterprise organisations and higher education establishments to deliver a range of programmes and initiatives. Internally, you’ll advise various teams within the organisation to ensure that our culture, ways of working, policies and employee lifecycle weave DE&I into the heart of McLaren Racing. Your role will also include leading the delivery of McLaren Racing Engage, our flagship programme to diversify the pool of talent entering the motorsport industry, working with the social enterprise organisations that make up the Engage Alliance.

Role Dimensions :

• Reports to Director of Sustainability.
• In this role, you will lead the delivery of our DE&I agenda within the team and will work with external stakeholders to influence and drive change.
• You will collaborate with the wider Sustainability and People Team to design, implement and ensure the success of our people programmes and initiatives.
• You will line manage the Sustainability Associate.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Working with our people data and analytics teams to ensure we have the appropriate DE&I data collection, reporting and analytical processes in place to enable data-led, insight-driven programmes and initiatives that will result in measurable impact, and to deliver regular internal and external reporting on performance and progress. This will include Gender Pay Gap reports, the DE&I section of the annual sustainability report, demographic reporting, implementing measurements against KPIs, internal performance insights, and external benchmarking.
• Providing expert DE&I knowledge, advice and guidance at every touchpoint in the McLaren Racing people journey, to appropriately evolve our policies and processes in line with best practice.
• Working closely with external DE&I stakeholders to build inclusivity and accessibility into all policies and systems, ensuring intersectionality throughout by aligning the project strands.
• Owning the design and delivery of our internal education and awareness programmes that help embed an inclusive and inspiring culture across our business.
• Working closely with our internal people networks (currently: Driven Women, Racing Roots, Mental Health First Aiders and STEM ambassadors) to enable connections with likeminded colleagues, and to involve our people in delivering our key programmes and outreach.
• Acting as the first point of contact for all STEM outreach initiatives, effectively liaising with our STEM ambassador network to secure internal representative support and promoting STEM and motorsport to under-represented groups as an accessible career choice.
• Working with our communications and events team to define and deliver our awareness calendar throughout the year, using these key dates to raise visibility of the DE&I agenda, to educate and engage our team and to illustrate McLaren’s impact externally.
• Leading delivery of McLaren Racing Engage - our Social Enterprise Collaboration - to diversify the pool of talent entering motorsport and our team from school age to experienced hire.
• Own the delivery of scholarship programmes in place with higher education institutions – accountable for relationship management, process design and internal stakeholder engagement and involvement.
• Representing McLaren Racing on Race Series DE&I working groups, influencing the outcomes to drive meaningful impact, and leading McLaren Racing’s participation in relevant Series-level events, initiatives and programme.
• Overseeing delivery of UK-based work experience programmes.
• Line management and oversee work delivery of the Sustainability Associate.

Job requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• A background in a matrixed organisation within the engineering or technology sector.
• Experience delivering a DE&I strategy cross-organisation working with a range of stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Experience of implementing DE&I focused policy and process changes into the employee lifecycle.
• Experience designing and delivering immersive and engaging DE&I education and training.
• Evidenced expertise of DE&I best practice and comfort being the subject matter expert within an organisation.
• Evidenced confidence to deliver content in an engaging way, whether it’s training colleagues, pitching strategies, or presenting to large audiences.
• A creative and innovative approach to juggling multiple priorities in partnership with our teams and our external partners.
• Strong project management skills, with 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 build engage, influence and persuade - at every level of business, and engage with people from the point of where they are in their maturity of understanding of the DE&I agenda.

Personal Attributes:

• Comfort working at pace through complexity.
• A high-performance mindset and work ethic, focused and committed to driving positive DE&I change within the context of the motorsport industry.
• A creative and initiative-taking approach to continuously solving challenges.
• The ability to switch from big picture thinking to delivering with 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.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a drive for ever greater performance and impact.
• An infectious passion for driving positive DE&I change with the ability to galvanize others into meaningful action. 
• A strong collaborator, willing to support team-mates when needed, and focused on playing your part in achieving our common goals.

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.