Inclusion Specialist

Overview

Job description

At McLaren, our mission is to set the standard for high performance in sport. Everyone, in every part of the team, has a role to play. So if you want to test your ideas with the world watching... And measure your progress in milliseconds... And play your part in racing history... You belong here. High performance starts with you.

The People Team is a highly valued and dynamic business performance partner, offering services across a range of diverse functions and departments within our highly competitive racing teams. It’s a unique and fast-paced sports environment, so we are looking for the best in our industry to lead change and keep pushing boundaries.

This role will report to the Head of People Experience, with a dotted line to the Senior Manager, DEI.

The Head of People Experience provides overall governance and accountability for how inclusion is embedded across the full employee lifecycle, ensuring alignment with People strategy, policies, and processes. The Senior Manager, DEI, sets the strategic direction and roadmap for diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Specialist, Inclusion ensures execution of this roadmap, translating strategy into practical initiatives and measurable outcomes.

Diversity, equity and inclusion deliver performance for us as a team, and in this role, you’ll be responsible for how we embed an inclusive approach across the full employee lifecycle, working closely with experts across the lifecycle. You will be delivery-focused; responsible for implementing internal initiatives, managing data and reporting, and embedding inclusion across learning and development, employee communities and awareness events, all whilst providing expertise and support to the wider DEI strategy for STEM engagements and social impact initiatives.

Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with the People Experience, DEI, Learning, Early Careers and Talent teams on initiatives with a focus on optimising performance through our people. The role will also see you collaborating with our wider People and Internal Communications teams on the delivery and evaluation of activities and interventions.

Given the high-performance environment, this role requires credibility, adaptability, and a performance-focused approach, along with being a strong collaborator, communicator, and relationship builder.

• Deliver inclusion programmes as defined in the annual DEI roadmap, ensuring all initiatives have clear timelines, owners, and metrics.

• Drive and empower the maturation of our Employee Communities/Networks: setting up governance frameworks and embedding impact measures.

• Provide input into the design of highly personalised learning interventions in the inclusion space across face-to-face, virtual and digital learning. Using feedback and evaluation to iterate content.

• Support our People Partner community as an inclusion SME to design solutions and offer coaching to managers and team members within their functions.

• Support the delivery of the statutory and internal inclusion reports (e.g. Gender Pay Gap, Sustainability DEI reporting), working with the Senior DEI Manager to evolve and use feedback to inform the maturing of DEI areas.

• Collaborate with our People Analytics team to design data dashboards that measure not only the diversity of our people but also inclusivity, tracking key inclusion metrics (representation, experience, attrition) and surfacing trends that require action.

• Support our Early Careers team on inclusion-focused attraction and engagement activities such as careers fairs, work experience and scholarships.

• Support our Senior Manager, DEI, on key activations across our Social Impact agenda externally.

• Support external Social Impact and commercial Partnership activations under DEI themes: co-deliver partner-programmes, events, and campaigns, monitoring impact against agreed KPIs.

• Collaborate with Internal Communications to execute the annual DEI events & awareness calendar, aligning with DEI priorities and external activations.

• Monitor DEI best practices, regulatory changes, and emergent trends working with the wider People Experience team to drive…