Head of People & Performance, Elite Technical Team

McLaren Racing; Woking; Sur place; GBP 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

McLaren Racing is seeking a Head of Organisational Effectiveness to partner with a high‑performing F1 technical team. The role centers on aligning people strategy with racing performance by building leadership capability, shaping teams, and driving change that elevates collaboration and accountability across engineering and production functions.

The successful candidate will coach senior leaders, design effective workforce plans, and integrate organisational psychology insights into practical

Qualifications

• Significant experience in senior People or HR roles within elite performance, engineering or fast-paced technical environments.
• Proven leadership coaching experience to improve leader effectiveness, communication, decision-making and accountability.
• Strong organisational development and change management expertise delivering high-impact people solutions.
• Experience across organisational design, talent management, succession planning, workforce planning and leadership development.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational delivery in complex environments.

Responsabilités

• Build strong, open relationships across the technical function, creating the trust needed for honest conversations, early challenge and quick action.
• Stay close to leaders and teams, listening carefully and using data, judgement and what you see on the ground to understand what is helping or getting in the way of performance.
• Turn those insights into clear, practical people priorities that support the team’s goals and deliver results.
• Work shoulder to shoulder with senior leaders, coaching and challenging them to make better decisions, communicate clearly and create real accountability.
• Shape teams and ways of working through organisation design, workforce and succession planning, and focused change that improves performance, builds organisational resilience and removes unnecessary complexity.
• Help leaders build a one team environment where people collaborate well, challenge constructively and keep performing under pressure.
• Oversight of employee relations and people planning with sound judgement, balancing pace, care and what is right for the team.
• Connect the team with the wider technical, production and race team, bringing the right people together to find performance through collaboration, connection and a one team mindset.

Connaissances

Senior HR leadership

Leadership coaching

Organisational development

Change management

Talent management

Workforce planning

Leadership development

Strategic thinking

Description du poste

McLaren Racing is seeking a Head of Organisational Effectiveness to partner with a high‑performing F1 technical team. The role centers on aligning people strategy with racing performance by building leadership capability, shaping teams, and driving change that elevates collaboration and accountability across engineering and production functions.

The successful candidate will coach senior leaders, design effective workforce plans, and integrate organisational psychology insights into practical