Senior HRBP Manager - FTC

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 use us every month to find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily. Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that is striving to become the planet’s go‑to travel hack accessible for all.

Our vision is to be the world’s number one travel ally.

Hybrid. The Senior People Partner supports our business organisation across Edinburgh, Glasgow or London. You’ll be embedded with executive and senior leaders as a trusted advisor, coach and partner, balancing data with empathy, strategy with delivery.

This is a Senior level individual contributor role with scope to shape people strategy and influence senior stakeholders across a complex, global organisation. It offers variety and impact: from org design and change programmes to manager capability, employee relations, engagement and culture‑building.

• Partnering for impact: working 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: leading and landing 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: coaching leaders, running feedback workshops and building practical toolkits that help good managers become great ones.
• Employee relations, done right: handling complex ER matters with care and confidence, balancing risk, empathy and the law – always aiming for fair, timely outcomes.
• Turning data into action: using 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: driving 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: supporting key people rituals – from performance and compensation cycles to engagement moments – while simplifying processes and systems for scale.

• Tech/global experience: having worked in a fast‑paced tech and/or global organisation, partnering with senior leaders through complexity, scale and change.
• Trusted relationship‑builder: creating psychological safety, maintaining confidentiality and influencing senior stakeholders with clarity, calm and the right amount of candour.
• Strategic and hands‑on: equally happy in the weeds and on the whiteboard – able to set direction, then ship the work that gets us there.
• UK ER expert: strong knowledge of UK employment law and best practice, with experience managing nuanced, sensitive cases.
• Globally aware: an awareness of international employment practices – particularly in Spain, China, Singapore and the USA – which is beneficial but not essential.
• Data‑curious operator: comfortable with metrics, dashboards and experimentation, using evidence to prioritise work and prove impact.
• Change champion: 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: elevating manager capability with candid feedback, practical tools and a growth mindset – helping leaders build inclusive, high‑performing teams.

We are a team of genuinely curious, caring humans. 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 are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.