JLR, Britain's largest carmaker, plans to eliminate 300 jobs as part of a major corporate restructuring, the Tata-owned group has confirmed.
The announcement comes one month after the company said it would cut around £1.7bn in operating costs over the coming years. JLR said it intends to secure those savings through reductions in materials, warranty and fixed costs.
The 300 new roles being cut are separate from the 500 positions JLR eliminated last July. The company employs about 30,000 people across the UK and roughly 10,000 overseas. It did not disclose which departments would be affected by the latest round of redundancies.
A company spokesman said: "As we evolve our operating model to accelerate the growth of our House of Brands and deliver our next-generation vehicles, we are transforming our business to improve decision-making and performance. As part of our ongoing transformation initiatives, we have launched a limited redeployment and displacement programme. Impacted colleagues will be supported to find alternative roles wherever possible, alongside the option of voluntary early exit."
Recovering from a damaging cyber attack
The restructuring comes as JLR continues to recover from a cyber attack that struck the business at the end of August 2025. The breach forced a wholesale reset of company-wide servers and triggered a five-week shutdown of global production lines. Dealers were unable to log into systems to sell or register new cars, and the business endured months of reduced operations while its digital network was brought back online.
The incident resulted in multi-hundred-million-pound losses, with the broader economic impact estimated at up to £1.9bn.
A range of sector headwinds
JLR, like many premium European carmakers, has been squeezed by a series of pressures hitting the automotive sector. Intensifying competition from Chinese brands in its biggest markets, combined with a dramatic fall in demand in China itself, has taken a toll on the premium SUV maker. US tariff measures introduced last year have added further strain.
The shift toward electric vehicles has also weighed on the business. Jaguar has rebranded as an EV-only maker, and JLR's plants are being retooled for the production of forthcoming battery-electric models including the Range Rover Electric, Range Rover Sport Electric and the new Range Rover GT.
JLR makes most of its vehicles at factories in Solihull in the West Midlands and Halewood in Merseyside, as well as in Slovakia. In 2023, the company reorganised its brands into four separate divisions: Range Rover, Defender, Discovery and Jaguar.
Job cuts spread across the European car industry
JLR is not alone in announcing layoffs. On Wednesday, BMW confirmed it will trim its German workforce by 8,000 staff by the end of 2027 as part of a voluntary redundancy programme. Porsche, which is owned by Volkswagen, is cutting an additional 5,000 jobs by 2035, bringing the total number of roles eliminated at the brand to 8,900.
Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz have also struck agreements to cut tens of thousands of workers. Volkswagen's plans are among the most sweeping in the industry: the German group is aiming to eliminate up to 100,000 jobs, shut up to four German vehicle plants, and reduce its model line-up by half, in a cost-saving drive driven in large part by surging Chinese competition.
