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Autocar Drivers of Change is a new Autocar celebration of diverse talent in the automotive industry.
A sibling event to Autocar’s Great Women initiative, these awards celebrate the automotive industry as a place that welcomes everybody.
Judging will put an emphasis on diversity of thought, experience and background.
Autocar Drivers of Change winners will be individuals who are driving change in their business in whichever role they perform.
Winners will be named in nine categories but anyone appearing on our shortlist of around 100 individuals will be able to call themselves an Autocar Driver of Change.
They will all be celebrated at a special event hosted by Autocar in autumn 2024.
The top candidates will be selected from the following areas of the car industry: Marketing; Manufacturing; Operations; PR and communications; Purchasing; Retail; Sales; Talent; Vehicle development.
Individuals can put themselves forward for consideration, or can be nominated by friends, colleagues and employers.
The awards are open to all working in the British car industry, or Britons working abroad.
Please look far and wide within your organisation for individuals to nominate - we’re encouraging people to think outside of their immediate team for people deserving of an award.
Those nominating will need to supply evidence of the nominee’s potential to rise to the top of the industry.
There is no limit on the number of nominations submitted by a company.
Open to anyone who holds a PR or communications role for an OEM, supplier or retailer.
You must be able to demonstrate that your input makes a difference to the way that your brand is perceived by customers, your direct community and internal stakeholders (or other areas, as appropriate).
Open to anyone who works in the procurement side of a business, be that a large OEM or smaller supplier or retailer.
The size of the business isn’t important, but you should demonstrate that you can bring cost savings to a business using innovative thinking and/or a successful relationship with suppliers.
Open to anyone working in retail sales, aftersales and workshops, but we will accept entries from other areas of the retail industry.
The scale of the operation you work in is not as important as your ability to demonstrate going above and beyond in helping and assisting customers.
If in retail sales, you are consistently breaking targets.
Open to anyone who has helped move the game on by being part of a new inclusive system or policy and can demonstrate the impact of it, be that within a small business or a multinational entity; or who has developed and implemented successful programmes to address skill gaps in their organisation.
It is not aimed solely at HR professionals and is open to anyone who works in automotive.
This will be awarded to the business which, based on entries submitted to the individual Drivers of Change awards, the judges feel is making the greatest overall contribution to driving change in the automotive industry.
It is not possible to enter this category and will be decided solely by the judges.
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