Product Manager

Overview

In this role you drive product definition and lifecycle for McLaren’s vehicle programmes, shaping strategy, features, and go-to-market plans. You will act as the voice of the customer, aligning cross-functional teams to maximise value across customer, brand, and finance. You’ll manage trade-offs between performance, cost, and compliance while crafting compelling product proposals for senior leadership. This is a chance to influence a world-class automotive portfolio and push innovative, market-ready products forward.

Pay / Benefits

• Structured career development
• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Private medical insurance
• Sabbatical option after two years’ service

Responsibilities

• Coordinate market studies and research to inform positioning
• Translate positioning into USPs and Why-Buys
• Lead product lifecycle management and attribute/content positioning
• Develop price and business case inputs for trims, options & accessories
• Create customer-facing messaging and marketing assets with the Marketing team
• Develop product guides and technical data for internal and external stakeholders
• Support go-to-market activities and sales training materials
• Represent McLaren at press and marketing events
• Drive change control and governance of product direction documents
• Refine the business case with Strategy, Engineering and Finance teams
• Monitor vehicle sales performance to optimise lifecycle and profitability

Key requirements

• Deep automotive industry knowledge including customer, competition, trends, technologies, legislation, and pricing
• Ability to balance competing requirements (customer, financial, technical, regulatory) for maximum business value
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration across the business
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Experience in product, strategy, design, engineering or marketing within an automotive OEM context
• Pan-European or global experience is desirable
• Experience with new mobility, electrification and circular economy concepts is advantageous
• Strong commercial acumen and data-driven decision making
• Knowledge of market trends analysis, segmentation and pricing
• Ability to define and execute formal product development processes

• Tenacious
• Open and transparent
• Passion for automotive products
• Market research and competitive benchmarking
• Product lifecycle management
• Pricing, value indexing and options analysis

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