About Skyscanner
Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 160 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻.
Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍.
Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here).
About the role
Hybrid
Now, we’re on the lookout for a Senior People Partner to support our business organisation across Edinburgh, Glasgow or London. You’ll be embedded with Exec and Senior Leaders as a trusted advisor, coach and partner, balancing data with empathy, strategy with sleeves-rolled-up delivery.
This is a Senior level Individual Contributor role, with scope to shape people strategy and influence senior stakeholders across a complex, global organisation and it’s a role with plenty of variety and impact:from org design and change programmes to manager capability, employee relations, engagement and culture-building, you’ll help our brilliant humans do their best work.
What you’ll be doing
Partnering for impact: You’ll work closely with senior leaders across functions to shape people plans that unlock business outcomes and keep teams moving in the same direction.
Org design and change: You’ll lead and land org design, restructuring and change initiatives -clarifying roles, decision rights and ways of working so teams can move fast without breaking too many things.
Uplevelling manager capability: You’ll coach leaders, run feedback workshops and build practical toolkits that help good managers become great ones.
Employee Relations, done right: Handle complex ER matters with care and confidence, balancing risk, empathy and the law-always aiming for fair, timely outcomes.
Turning data into action: You’ll use people metrics and insights across engagement, attrition, DEI and performance cycles to spot patterns, tell the story and steer meaningful action.
Supporting talent, growth and mobility: You’ll drive workforce planning, succession and career pathways, partnering with TA and L&D to help us attract, grow and keep brilliant humans.
Keeping culture and cadence: You’ll support key people rituals - from performance and compensation cycles to engagement moments - while simplifying processes and systems for scale.
About you
Tech/global experience: You’ve worked in a fast-paced tech and/or global organisation, partnering with senior leaders through complexity, scale and change.
Trusted relationship-builder: You create psychological safety, maintain confidentiality and influence senior stakeholders with clarity, calm and just the right amount of candour.
Strategic and hands-on: You’re equally happy in the weeds and on the whiteboard -able to set direction, then ship the work that gets us there.
UK ER expert: You bring strong working knowledge of UK employment law and best practice, with experience managing nuanced, sensitive cases.
Globally aware: You may have awareness of international employment practices - particularly in Spain, China, Singapore and the USA -though this is a beneficial not essential.
Data-curious operator: You’re comfortable with metrics, dashboards and experimentation, using evidence to prioritise work and prove impact.
Change champion: You’re skilled in org design, change management and shaping ways of working in dynamic, matrixed environments where the destination can shift mid-flight.
Coach at heart: You elevate manager capability with candid feedback, practical tools and a growth mindset — helping leaders build inclusive, high-performing teams.
What it's like here
We are the real deal— no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans ❤️, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier 🧭.
Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better — and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all ✨.
Sound like your kind of adventure? 🚀 Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.
We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.
