Marketing Planning & Delivery Architect

Motorsport Network, LLC; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Racing seeks a Head of Marketing & Commercial Planning & Delivery to ensure the function has the capacity, capability and delivery plans to meet strategic priorities and commitments to fans, partners and licensees.

You will bridge between demand and delivery, oversee capacity across teams, and establish processes, dashboards and technology to improve visibility, agility and scale across the organisation, while partnering with Finance, Procurement and Technology.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading planning, resourcing, delivery or workload-management in a complex marketing or commercial environment.
• Proven capacity planning and workforce planning across multiple teams.
• Experience supporting large campaigns, programmes or commercial delivery.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to assess delivery implications of opportunities.
• Experience managing agency or external delivery-partner relationships.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to translate data into action.
• Experience implementing planning, resource-management or workflow tools.
• Excellent stakeholder-management and influencing skills.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead the Marketing & Commercial planning and resource management framework.
• Maintain forward-looking view of demand, capacity, capability and delivery priorities across all functions.
• Balance priorities, optimise resource allocation and develop workforce-planning recommendations.
• Identify capability gaps and recommend solutions, including recruitment, upskilling and external support.
• Maintain oversight of team capacity, workload and delivery commitments across the Marketing & Commercial portfolio.
• Ensure campaigns, activations, programmes and partner commitments are planned and resourced effectively.
• Identify delivery risks caused by workload, competing priorities or capability constraints, providing clear escalation routes and recommendations.
• Support commercial proposals, partner pitches and strategic growth opportunities by evaluating their resource, capability and delivery requirements.
• Help ensure contractual obligations and customer commitments are supported by realistic and achievable delivery plans.
• Develop the approach to managing agencies, freelancers and specialist partners, ensuring external support is aligned with business priorities.
• Partner with Finance and Procurement to support resource and operational financial planning, forecasting and supplier governance.
• Establish meaningful planning, resource and delivery key performance indicators, supported by reporting and dashboards.
• Define and implement technology requirements for resource planning, workflow management and delivery oversight.
• Work with Technology and Artificial Intelligence teams to identify opportunities for automation, improved forecasting and smarter resource management.
• Build a culture of proactive planning, accountability and continuous improvement, acting as a trusted adviser to Marketing & Commercial leadership.

Skills

Planning leadership

Forecasting

Resource management

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Agency management

Commercial acumen

Workflow tools

Problem solving

Job description

McLaren Racing seeks a Head of Marketing & Commercial Planning & Delivery to ensure the function has the capacity, capability and delivery plans to meet strategic priorities and commitments to fans, partners and licensees.

You will bridge between demand and delivery, oversee capacity across teams, and establish processes, dashboards and technology to improve visibility, agility and scale across the organisation, while partnering with Finance, Procurement and Technology.