Lead, Reward Partner

At McLaren, our mission is to set the standard for high performance in sport. Everyone, in every part of the team, plays a critical role in our success, both on and off the track.

The People Team is seen as 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.

**Purpose of the Role:
Reporting to the People Director, this role will play a leading role in shaping, managing, and overseeing our reward and benefits programs, ensuring our structure is fair, competitive, and aligned with the team’s strategic goals.

**Key** Accountabilities:
- Develop a reward strategy that aligns with the team’s overall business goals, conducting market research to ensure we remain competitive to attract, retain, and engage our employees.
- Manage the employee flexible benefits program, including health and wellbeing benefits, pension plans, holidays and paid time off, salary sacrifice initiatives and other flexible benefits.
- Implement performance-based bonuses, incentives, and merit-based pay increases.
- Benchmark salaries and design and maintain salary bands and ranges for different job positions.
- Conduct job evaluations to determine the relative value and complexity of different roles within the company, establishing fair and appropriate salary levels for each position.
- Analyse internal compensation data and trends and make informed recommendations and adjustments.
- Monitor reward practices through market trends and industry best practice.
- Lead on the implementation of any new pay and employee benefit initiatives, providing advice and direction to all levels of employees and leaders across McLaren Racing.
- Lead effective communication campaigns that promote our reward and benefits programs and investment in our people.
- Collaborate with our finance team to establish and manage budgets for compensation and benefits programs.
- Collaborate with third-party vendors to negotiate benefit plans and resolve benefit-related issues.
- Ensure that all compensation and benefits programs comply with relevant employment laws and regulations.

**Knowledge, **Skills and Experience:
- Proven experience in managing reward and benefits programmes.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret data to inform strategic decisions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Passion for developing reward programmes that drive a competitive advantage and a positive workplace culture
- Experience with HRIS systems and data analytics tools.

**Personal Attributes**:

- ** Results**: someone who is driven; who comes with an outstanding work ethic and expects the best from themself and people around them.
- ** Credible**: considered credible and has gravitas, acting as a role model for our values.
- ** Challenge**s: challenges others to strive for more, both in innovation and meeting stakeholder needs.
- ** Ownership**: demonstrates behaviours that support a high-performance culture within and across teams.
- ** Collaboration**: actively collaborates with stakeholders, creating strong working relationships to ensure all needs are represented and the best outcomes and experiences are delivered.
- ** Highly motivated and agile**: thrives within a fast-paced and demanding environment, moving with the business to deliver changing priorities and evolving goals.
- ** Calm under pressure**: stay focussed and measured while managing projects and juggling requests for support from the people team and the business.
- ** Driven**: a track record of getting things done.
- ** Role Model** - Is a role model and champions best practice in diversity and inclusion.

**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 genero