Global Partner Operations Lead — Sponsorships & Events

Raceforce Global; Woking; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Racing seeks a Senior Specialist, Partner Operations to plan and deliver critical partner operations for the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). You will build partner-facing processes and align them with other racing series and the commercial operating model.

You will create onboarding materials, manage partner hub content, deliver executive briefs, and coordinate activation plans, driving value for partners while maintaining accurate CRM and contracts.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in partnership operations, sponsorship delivery, account operations or a comparable commercial environment.
• Proven ability to build, document and improve processes across multiple teams and workstreams.
• Experience planning and delivering partner rights, activations, events or operational programmes against agreed deadlines.
• Strong project management and organisational skills, including the ability to manage competing priorities and identify risks before they affect delivery.
• Experience coordinating stakeholders across commercial, communications, brand, events, hospitality, content and technology teams.
• A clear understanding of partnership contracts, rights delivery and asset tracking, with experience maintaining accurate records.
• Experience using CRM, asset management or reporting systems to track activities, commitments and outcomes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including producing partner updates, operational plans, briefs, reports and presentation materials.
• Confidence working with senior internal stakeholders, external partners, agencies and suppliers.
• Strong attention to detail when managing approvals, contractual assets, event requirements and partner-facing communications.
• The ability to prioritise and deliver under pressure, including around races and live events.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of how effective partner operations support engagement, value delivery and long-term partnership outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver critical partner operations for the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC).
• Develop the processes and supporting materials required for partner onboarding, handbooks and guidelines, gifting, digital platforms, the partner hub and McLaren Racing Club.
• Represent WEC partner activity through internal team and steering committee updates, and oversee the WEC contribution to partnership value reporting.
• Liaise with partner communications on series commercial updates, lead series workshops and support executive engagement planning.
• For races and events, produce partnership content for executive briefs and coordinate activation plans, partner run sheets, driver briefings and talent requirements.
• Working with Commercial Operations, you will support the trackside delivery of content requests, hospitality, meet and greets, and other contractual assets.
• Maintain accurate partner contracts, asset tracking and CRM records as a single source of truth.
• Help create technical integration case studies and collaborate with Communications and Brand Design on partner announcements, multichannel communications and branding approvals.

Skills

Partnership operations

Process documentation

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

CRM systems

Contract knowledge

Communication skills

Prioritisation under pressure

Attention to detail

Commercial awareness

Tools

Salesforce

CRM software

Job description

McLaren Racing seeks a Senior Specialist, Partner Operations to plan and deliver critical partner operations for the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). You will build partner-facing processes and align them with other racing series and the commercial operating model.

You will create onboarding materials, manage partner hub content, deliver executive briefs, and coordinate activation plans, driving value for partners while maintaining accurate CRM and contracts.