Graduate, People Experience

McLaren Racing • Full-time • Woking, ENG, GB • 5d ago

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.

Purpose of the Role:

Reporting to the Head of People Experience, this graduate role will provide the perfect grounding in all specialist functions across the people team. The role will support projects right across the employee lifecycle and build a solid understanding of what drives an incredible employer brand and positive workplace culture, through initiatives that attract great talent as well as, promote engagement, retention, and development of our team members.

Key Accountabilities:

Employee engagement, recognition, and experiences

Support key projects across the full employee lifecycle that elevate our unique McLaren Racing culture;

- Workforce Planning

- Talent Attraction

- Onboarding

- Talent Development

- Talent & Succession

- Reward and Recognition

- Offboarding

Support reward, recognition and gifting programmes to celebrate and value the contribution, dedication, and hard work of our team members.
Support the development of our employer brand to ensure the journey for potential employees is inspiring and positive.
Be an active member of our early careers community and provide support in initiatives such as mentoring, lunch and learns and speaker events.
Support our McLaren Performance Hub team to promote health and wellbeing initiatives.
Develop communication campaigns to engage employees in workplace engagement programmes.
Monitor the effectiveness of culture change and the achievement of a high-performance culture, through audits, metrics, and measurements, to identify trends and areas for improvement and drive ongoing alignment to our core values.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

Have a degree, or equivalent, in human resources management, business, psychology or humanities with demonstrable interest in people/human resources from extra-curricular activities, work experience, internships or volunteering.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
Passion for creating a positive employee experience and workplace culture.

Personal Attributes:

Positive: demonstrates a positive and can-do mindset, showing up with energy and enthusiasm.
Collaborative: actively collaborates with stakeholders, creating strong working relationships to ensure all needs are represented and the best outcomes and experiences are delivered.
Creative: challenges the status quo and strives for innovation and creative solutions.
Takes Ownership: demonstrates behaviours that support a high-performance culture within and across teams and has a clear track record of getting things done.
Conscientious: ensuring that people experience across the team is delivered to the highest standard.
Role Model: role model and champion 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 generous pension contributions.