McLaren Racings upcoming entry into Formula E alongside our inaugural year in Extreme E will accelerate our understanding of EV technology as part of our sustainability journey while reaching a new, more diverse global audience. As a team of racers, we live for the Fearless Pursuit of Better - in our car, our tech, and our performance.
The challenge
We are looking for a valued partner to provide support and coordination in sourcing and maximizing the most efficient and best value travel for the race teams and our support staff. We’re looking for a diligent and responsible individual for the coordination of all the travel requirements for our electric vehicle racing and commercial teams attending multiple, international racing, and commercial events. This will involve key tasks such as itinerary creation, booking and amendments to flights, hotels, car rental, transfers, and any visa requirements that the team need.
Your team
You’ll be working as part of a friendly, motivated, and busy travel team, to manage the booking of all travel for McLaren Racing’s two Electric Vehicle racing, commercial functions and business support, working hard to ensure the best travel experience for the teams, whilst managing value for our team and the working relationships of our travel partners and suppliers.
Your day-to-day
As part of the role you could be spending your time:
- Managing the booking of flights, hotels, car rental and transfers for groups of people attending events outside of F1 racing
- Booking of flights via GDS (Sabre) alongside making group airline fare bookings
- Producing accurate travel itineraries that are circulated to all attendees
- Negotiating group deals with suppliers so that McLaren gets the best possible rate
- Bench-marking suppliers and showing cost saving across bookings where possible
- Managing working relationships with travel partners/suppliers such as our Travel Agent
- Post-event invoicing and reconciliation
- Supporting the wider team, and organisation, with other tasks where required
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Your story
To join our race for performance, you’ll ideally have an events or travel background with demonstrable experience within all or several the following:
- Working on events/travel for large numbers of people at once
- Group or published fare flights
- Group hotel bookings and rooming lists
- Group and or individual car rental
- Accurate creation and maintenance of itineraries for multiple events
- competent use of Microsoft packages