Jaguar Land Rover is to cut around 4,000 jobs globally over the next two years as the British carmaker launches a cost-cutting drive aimed at improving its competitiveness.
The company, owned by India’s Tata Motors, said it was targeting savings of about £1.7 billion and would seek to reduce the number of vehicles it needs to sell to break even to approximately 300,000.
JLR has opened a voluntary redundancy programme for salaried and management staff. The company has not specified how the reductions will be divided between its UK sites and operations overseas, although most of the affected roles are expected to be outside production.
“As we deliver the next phase of our strategy, we need to adapt to evolving global market conditions while targeting approximately £1.7 billion of savings over the next two years and reduce break-evens to 300,000 vehicles,” a JLR spokesperson said.
“To achieve this, we must further simplify our organisation, improve efficiency and build greater resilience.”
JLR employs about 40,000 people worldwide, including roughly 30,000 in the UK. Its main British manufacturing operations include plants in Solihull in the West Midlands and Halewood on Merseyside, alongside other engineering and production facilities.
Business minister Jonathan Reynolds is due to meet chief executive PB Balaji this week to discuss the planned job cuts. Mr Reynolds has said the Government wants to limit redundancies but ruled out a bailout for the company.
The reductions come as carmakers face weaker demand, US tariffs and increasing competition from Chinese manufacturers. JLR has also been dealing with the financial impact of a cyber attack that halted production at its UK factories for several weeks in 2025.
The company said the restructuring would support the launch of five new products over the next 12 months and allow it to maintain planned investment of between £15 billion and £18 billion over the next five years in electrification, digital technology, advanced manufacturing and customer services.
