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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 be the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all.
Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally.
About The Role
We’re on the lookout for a Procurement Manager - Technology to help us bring that vision to even more travellers. This is an exciting time to join our Finance Tribe and be a key contributor to the evolution of our rapidly evolving procurement function. As operations and services continue to grow, so does the complexity and cost of services which we procure. You’ll collaborate with teams globally to define and procure external services and to ensure that Skyscanner’s cost base is controlled appropriately and represents optimal value for spend.
You’ll develop and deliver procurement and category strategy in a relatively 'greenfield' procurement environment. In addition, this role provides an excellent opportunity for dynamic individuals to make a real impact and to work with senior management on challenging and complex projects, delivering with autonomy, impact and visibility.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Owning category strategy: Build and execute strategies for Technology (SaaS, Cloud, Data/AI, InfoSec) and other category areas as required, however please note the primary focus of this role will be supporting our Engineering Teams with the technology requirements they have.
* Running end to end sourcing activity: Lead RFI/RFP/RFQ and market engagement, design scoring frameworks, run due diligence, and make detailed award recommendations.
* Negotiating smart commercials: Shape pricing, indexation, benchmarking, volume/commit discounts, service credits and outcome‑based models; close high impact, best in class deals.
* Contracting & governance: Own the commercial spine of MSAs/SOWs/SLAs and partner with Legal on detailed contract negotiation, focussing on IPR/licensing, liability/indemnity, audit, termination/exit; maintain a clean contracts database/CLM with proactive renewals and obligation tracking.
* Managing Risk & ESG: Drive third party risk management with Security, Privacy and Compliance and embed sustainable procurement and supplier diversity goals into sourcing and SRM.
* SRM & performance: Lead QBRs, track SLAs/KPIs, manage escalations, and run improvement and innovation roadmaps with strategic suppliers.
* Optimising consumption: Partner with Engineering/IT/FinOps to reduce SaaS and cloud TCO (license utilisation, tiering, commitments, trueups/downs) and curb shadow IT / duplicative tools.
* Process & tools: Help evolve procurement policies, playbooks, templates and approval flows as a key part of the wider Procurement Team; champion adoption of eSourcing/S2P and CLM.
* Stakeholder leadership: Be a trusted advisor to senior leaders—framing problems crisply, surfacing market insight, and influencing decisions with clear commercial storytelling.
* Benefits tracking: Work within established benefits tracking processes to capture all the savings and value add associated with the Procurement activity you deliver (savings, avoidance, TCO, risk reduction, innovation outcomes), work closely with finance on signoff of any benefits.
About You
* Hands‑on: Hands on operator who moves fast and brings others with you.
* Procurement proven: Strong experience in fast paced, high growth environments; end‑to‑end ownership without direct reports.
* Tech sourcing depth: Comfortable across SaaS, Cloud, Data/AI, InfoSec, Colleague IT and other technology categories. Recent experience of delivering complex sourcing activity in the technology space.
* Contract fluent: Robust understanding of contracts and key clauses (IPR/licensing, SLAs, liability/indemnity, audit, termination) and the ability to closely partner with Legal.
* Commercially astute—highly confident in negotiation, with the ability to influence both suppliers and internal stakeholders to deliver the absolute greatest value for Skyscanner.
* Risk aware: Practical grip on supplier risk and due diligence with a detailed understanding of the wider risk environment and its impact on supply chain resilience.
* Data savvy: Build TCO models, baseline spend, quantify benefits, and make data driven decisions.
* Trusted advisor: Credible with senior leaders; concise, persuasive and outcome driven. Can communicate across the organisation, tailoring your messaging and approach to the audience you are engaging with.
* Tooling literate / AI Forward: Familiar with eSourcing/S2P and CLM platforms; comfortable improving processes and adoption with a keen appreciation of how AI can be used to deliver better results for the team and internal stakeholders.
* Independent & resilient: Self‑directed, able to switch between strategy and execution, and deliver repeatable results.
* Travel ready: Willing to travel for key supplier and stakeholder engagements.
* Nice to have: MCIPS/CPSM, FinOps collaboration experience, knowledge of ISO 20400, and broad understanding of modern IT infrastructure/software delivery.
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.
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