Digital Learning Specialist

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:

In this role you’ll be responsible for our digital learning platform ecosystem, managing implementation, content creation and curation for use across McLaren Racing. You’ll hold the operational relationship with our providers, driving maximum value and delivering engaging learning experiences for the team.

Working closely with the Head of Talent and Development and Senior Specialist Talent Development, you’ll deliver the digital learning strategy across McLaren Racing enabling our current and future performance on our journey back to the front of the grid.

Role Dimensions:

• Reports to the Head of Talent and Development
• Working within the People and Sustainability team, partnering with our People Partners to design and deliver digital learning solutions that gain performance for our team.
• Working across all of our race series as well as with our commercial and central services functions.
  
  

Principal Accountabilities:

• Embed our high-performance culture and vision, mission and values through engaging and best in class digital learning that our team can access anytime, anywhere.
• Own the operational relationship with our digital learning providers, ensuring smooth and impactful delivery.
• Curate and develop learning journeys to support our key talent populations including leaders, managers, early careers, diverse talent pipelines and high potentials.
• Enhance key people lifecycle journeys through the creation of curated content and pathways such as induction and onboarding, introduction to management, performance management and paternity/maternity.
• Support key strategic communications through digital learning campaigns and communications e.g. Sustainability, Culture, People Engagement and Awareness dates.
• Operate as the SME for digital content creation – providing support for our commercial teams in the creation of commericalised content under our partnership model.
• Work with the Senior Specialist, Talent Development and People Partners to identify future learning requirements to be built into annual delivery plans.
• Responsible for system governance and reporting.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Experience of designing, implementing and delivering digital learning solutions for a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Experience of building strong partnerships to deliver creative and innovative solutions.
• Comfortable operating as the single subject matter expert within an organisation with the ability to present ideas and craft proposals for digital learning solutions.
• Strong project management skills and ability to prioritise projects, activating multiple solutions that support a variety of needs.
• A creative and proactive approach to continuously improving the way we work.
• A background working in, or with, a matrixed organization, ideally within the engineering or technology sector.
  
  

Personal Attributes:

• Comfortable working at pace through complexity
• A creative and proactive approach to solve challenges
• The ability to switch from big picture thinking to delivering true attention to detail
• Ability to engage and build relationships across the team and with a range of stakeholders across the organisation
• Continuous improvement mindset with a drive for great performance and impact
• An infectious passion for what you do

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. Our state of the art, sustainable campus offers many facilities including a gym, swimming pool, 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.

Hybrid working patterns give you options to balance your home life and outside interests with your work. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including private healthcare, car schemes, life insurance and generous pension contributions.