Overview
Director of Analytics (12 month FTC) role at Skyscanner.
You’ll lead a high‑performing team and advance Skyscanner’s data‑driven culture as part of a 12‑month fixed‑term engagement. This role manages a team of ~15 analysts embedded across Commercial, Media, and Central Reporting, ensuring insight drives decisions at every level. You’ll partner with senior stakeholders across the business to support performance, lead strategic initiatives, and shape the evolution of analytics as a discipline. The role reports into the Senior Director of Analytics.
Location: you can be based in Glasgow, Edinburgh, or London, with a hybrid policy of working in the office twice a week.
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 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 is to be the world’s number one travel ally.
We’re looking for a Director of Analytics on a 12‑month fixed‑term basis, to lead a high‑performing team and advance our data‑driven culture.
About the Role
This is a high‑impact, fixed‑term leadership opportunity at the heart of Skyscanner’s data strategy. You’ll manage a team of ~15 analysts embedded across Commercial, Media, and Central Reporting, ensuring insight drives decisions at every level. You’ll partner with senior stakeholders across the business to support performance, lead strategic initiatives, and shape the evolution of analytics as a discipline. This role reports into the Senior Director of Analytics and is ideal for a dynamic, hands‑on leader ready to make an impact. Hybrid work arrangement: in‑office twice per week.
Responsibilities
* Partnering for performance: You’ll act as the primary analytics partner for Advertising, Commercial and Media teams — embedding data into strategic and day‑to‑day decisions.
* Translating goals into action: You’ll align business and revenue priorities with analytics initiatives, ensuring measurable outcomes across the portfolio.
* Shaping the commercial roadmap: You’ll guide performance reviews, uncover growth levers, and lead initiatives that boost revenue through experimentation and insights.
* Leading cross‑functional delivery: You’ll collaborate with Engineering and Product to deploy scalable products and enable smart, data‑led decisions.
* Mentoring and managing teams: You’ll lead and grow a team of analysts — setting direction, aligning goals, and elevating craft and impact.
* Championing data strategy: You’ll help steer company‑wide data strategy and analytics capability development, representing the voice of analytics at senior levels.
* Driving operational excellence: You’ll influence culture, tooling, and scalable practices that increase analytics maturity across Skyscanner.
About You
* Proven analytics leader: You have significant experience leading multi‑disciplinary analytics teams — ideally in fast‑paced, digital or tech‑driven environments.
* Commercially focused: You’ve partnered with revenue and commercial teams and understand how to drive meaningful business impact through data.
* Technically grounded: You’re fluent in data tooling, analytical workflows, and scalable insight delivery — and not afraid to get close to the data.
* Cross‑functional collaborator: You’re comfortable influencing across Engineering, Product, Finance, and Science — and translating insight into action.
* Clear communicator: You turn complexity into clarity, delivering insights that resonate with senior audiences and frontline teams alike.
* People‑first manager: You care deeply about growing others, nurturing culture, and creating a high‑trust, high‑performance environment.
* Strategic and adaptable: You can align short‑term business goals with long‑term vision — and navigate the ambiguity that comes with scaling impact.
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, please let us 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.
Job details
* Seniority level: Director
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Research, Analyst, and Information Technology
* Industries: Technology, Information and Internet
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