About this role
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 ha