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JAGUAR LAND ROVER JOINS FORCES WITH MULTIVERSE TO DELIVER DATA SKILLS TRAINING TO EMPLOYEES

23 August 2022

  • New training programme created with tech start‑up Multiverse
  • Data plays a key role across design, engineering, product development and beyond as Jaguar Land Rover prepares for an electrified future
  • Enhancing data capability is crucial to Jaguar Land Rover’s digital transformation to deliver a modern luxury experience

Gaydon, UK, Tuesday 23 August 2022. Jaguar Land Rover is collaborating with tech start‑up Multiverse to enhance the data skills of its employees as it accelerates its digital transformation and prepares for an electrified future. 

Through its Reimagine strategy, Jaguar Land Rover is at the forefront of the rapidly changing automotive industry with a focus on electrification, digital services and data. Leadership in these areas is critical to Jaguar Land Rover delivering a modern luxury experience to its clients now and in the future.  

The work with Multiverse is the first of many initiatives planned by the company to increase data capability and invest in employees’ skills to meet the needs of the business during its transformation and in the future. 

The shortage of data skills is estimated to cost UK businesses £2 billion a year, with 1 in 10 jobs requiring data expertise* and 100,000 data positions unfilled**. Multiverse is looking to fill this skills gap by building an outstanding alternative to university and corporate training through apprenticeships. It now trains over 8,000 tech, leadership and digital apprentices. 

Through the collaboration, a Data Fellowship course, delivered by Multiverse, will be offered to employees. The 15‑month course covers topics including data modelling, analysis, Python, and Machine Learning, and will support thousands of Jaguar Land Rover's employees to make the transition from spreadsheets and desktop data work to working on the cloud. The first 400 employees enrolled this summer, with additional groups launching each quarter. 

Clive Benford, Chief Data Officer, said:

The automotive industry is rapidly changing to become digital and electric. The management and utilisation of increasingly high volumes of data in this new era will be central to Jaguar Land Rover’s future. We need to create a data‑first mindset that will support our growth, enhance the customer experience, and increase the productivity and expertise of our teams.

The business’ own digital transformation is already underway with software‑over‑the‑air, which demonstrates the power of effectively harnessing data. The primary goal of our partnership with Multiverse is to empower all our employees to utilise data, gain insights from it and develop valuable solutions.

Clive Benford
Chief Data Officer at Jaguar Land Rover

Euan Blair, founder and CEO of Multiverse, said:

This ambitious and far‑reaching programme is one of the largest data apprenticeship programmes ever launched in the UK, and will deliver world‑class training in data to hundreds of people on an ongoing basis. Jaguar Land Rover's investment in apprenticeships shows the premium placed on data skills and the power of apprenticeships to deliver impactful new skills into a business through applied learning.

Euan Blair
Founder and CEO of Multiverse

Further information

Jaguar Land Rover PR social channels:   

‑ Twitter: @JaguarLandRover 
‑ LinkedIn: @JaguarLandRover   
 

For more information visit www.media.jaguarlandrover.com or contact:   

Jo Whitty 
Global External Corporate Communications Manager 
Jwhitty2@jaguarlandrover.com  

 

Notes to Editors

* The Royal Society, Dynamics of Data Science Skills 

** The European Data Market Monitoring Tool 

About Jaguar Land Rover: Reimagining the future of modern luxury by design  
Jaguar Land Rover is reimagining the future of modern luxury by design through its distinct British brands. 

Our current model range embraces fully electric, plug‑in hybrid and mild‑hybrid vehicles, as well as the latest diesel and petrol engines. Our class‑leading Jaguars and Land Rovers are in demand around the world and in Fiscal Year 2021/22 we sold 371,381 vehicles in 123 countries. Land Rover is the global leader of luxury SUVs through its three families of Range Rover, Discovery and Defender. Jaguar is the first ever brand to offer a premium all‑electric performance SUV, the Jaguar I‑PACE.  

At heart we are a British company, with two major design and engineering sites, three vehicle manufacturing facilities, an Engine Manufacturing Centre and a Battery Assembly Centre in the UK. We also have vehicle plants in China, Brazil, India, Austria and Slovakia. Three of our seven technology hubs are in the UK – Manchester, Warwick (NAIC) and London – with additional sites in Shannon, Ireland, Portland, USA, Budapest, Hungary and Shanghai, China.  

Central to our Reimagine strategy is the electrification of both the Land Rover and Jaguar brands with two clear, distinct personalities. All Jaguar and Land Rover nameplates will be available in pure electric form by the end of the decade. This marks the start of the company’s journey to become a net zero carbon business across its supply chain, products and operations by 2039. 

To help the company meet this objective, Jaguar Land Rover has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions across its operations by 46 per cent, and across its value chains by 54 per cent, by 2030. The goals, which are approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), confirm the company’s pathway to a 1.5°C emissions reduction in line with the Paris Agreement. 

As a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Motors since 2008, Jaguar Land Rover has unrivalled access to leading global players in technology and sustainability within the wider Tata Group. 

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