McLaren

What to Expect

Reporting to MSO’s Commercial Manager, you will be a key member of the visualisation team, producing digital visualisation stills and real-time assets to support and enhance the customer journey, turning our client’s ideas into reality through the provision of bespoke rendering services.

You will support the interface between MSO Visualisation and key stakeholders such as MSO Operations and Global Design to ensure delivery of MSO visualisation projects in line with requirements and cross functionally defined SLAs, through positive and productive collaboration.

This is a highly creative role, offering an exciting opportunity to directly impact the customer journey and support wider marketing initiatives such as product development.

What You'll Do

• Create high quality customer facing artwork, animations, configurators and video content (for use with both external customers and the McLaren senior leadership team)
• Ensure all required outputs are delivered effectively and consistently achieve our departmental SLAs
• Where required support the business planning process, ensuring ongoing capacity and the required skillsets to deliver future visualisation requirements
• Liaise with the MSO paint team to take Bespoke livery designs from concept to execution, including delivery of accurate vector formats from artwork
• Create high quality customer facing presentations and PDFs (for use with both external customers and the McLaren senior leadership team)
• Working in conjunction with our colleagues in Global Design, support the MSO Product team in the development of new MSO Bespoke livery product offers
• Able to support remote and face to face customer specification meetings and events, delivering visualisation assets whilst demonstrating exemplary creativity and attention to detail
• Support the Commercial Manager with the management of external agency provision of rendering / visualisation services

What You'll Bring

• Educated to degree level Automotive design, 3D Product Design or similar, with relevant automotive experience
• Thorough knowledge of Unreal Engine 4/5
• Highly capable in creation of animation and video content
• Expert in creation of photo-realistic materials, lighting and production of final imagery
• Experience with data conversion starting with basic CAD data
• Working knowledge of UV mapping, modelling and texturing
• Ability to setup VR projects with interaction and navigation controls a bonus
• Experience with other relevant software desirable such as VRED, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Blender, Alias, Maya, 3D Studio Max
• Strong graphic design skills and confident with presenting to customers and key stakeholders
• Able to support taping of vehicles to assist paint team
• Confident developing and maintaining strong working relationships
• Experience of effectively coordinating several high paced projects simultaneously, sometimes of very different nature, and manage frequent and constructive communication with global intercultural teams based in remote locations
• Professional and credible ambassador for the McLaren Brand, able to mix confidently with senior dealership personnel, executive management and UHNW
• customers
• Exceptionally well organised, highly self-motivated and able to prioritise effectively
• Initiative - makes things happen with minimum levels of supervision and performs under tight deadlines/budgets
• Resilient and adaptable - able to maintain consistent, professional, high quality outputs in a fast paced, challenging and dynamic environment
• Flexible:
• Prepared to travel overseas / work outside standard UK operating hours to support global customer requirements
• Must possess a willingness and ability to work outside the box and to take on tasks / challenges beyond job description – a team player
• Takes customer satisfaction personally and inspires this culture in others
• Demonstrative passion for automotive design and appreciation of future trends across the wider Design industry
• We recognise that we can only achieve our vision with the dedication and collaboration of our world class employees. It is our aim to become the employer of choice within the global automotive industry

What We'll Do for You

We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:

• Structured career development framework
• 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
• Enhanced company pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus award
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan
• Life assurance 4x your basic salary
• Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• Generous parental leave policies including market leading maternity leave
• Tax efficient nursery scheme benefit
• A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
• Friends and family day
• Opportunities to experience our fantastic cars

Qualifying criteria applies

Who Are We?

No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.

It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks.

McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey.