Senior People Advisor (12-month 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 100 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)

Your mission:
As a Senior People Advisor, you’ll help shape a work environment where people feel supported, valued and set up to do their best work. Partnering closely with People Partners, you’ll blend operational excellence with proactive coaching - empowering managers to lead with confidence, tackle challenges early and build engaged, high-performing teams.

With a healthy mix of empathy, data and sound judgement, you’ll provide hands-on support and thoughtful guidance that helps our people and our business thrive.

What you'll be doing

Empowering managers: Coaching leaders through people-related questions, helping them land effective, timely solutions while levelling up their people-management skills.
Leading ER cases end-to-end: Running investigations and casework with clarity, care and fairness - robust processes and balanced outcomes.
Powering performance & reward cycles: Supporting performance reviews, ratings calibration and reward processes, while coaching managers to take a continuous, year-round approach to performance and development.
Policy: Helping managers navigate people policies with confidence, offering clear advice so decisions are fair, consistent and well-informed.
Championing employee engagement: Supporting engagement survey cycles, helping leaders interpret results and turn insight into meaningful action.
Turning data into decisions: Using Workday and Tableau reports to spot trends, risks and opportunities, guiding leaders to focus energy where it matters most.
Driving continuous improvement: Spotting ways to simplify people processes and improve how we work - always with people front of mind.

About you

Business-savvy & context-driven: You connect people advice to organisational goals, understanding how strategy, timing and teams shape the right call.
Advisory & coaching-led: You don’t just answer questions - you coach managers to make confident, balanced decisions themselves.
Change-resilient & calm: You bring clarity when things feel ambiguous and keep momentum rolling in fast-moving environments.
Data-informed & outcome-oriented: You use people data to surface patterns and turn insight into actions that genuinely improve outcomes.
Tech-savvy: You’re comfortable using tools like Workday, Tableau, Culture Amp and Slack.
Collaborative & curious: You ask great questions, connect dots across teams and enjoy finding better ways of doing things together.
Employee relations pro: You’ve led and documented investigations and complex cases with fairness, empathy and excellent judgement.

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.