Overview

About Skyscanner: A global brand focused on helping travellers plan and book travel more easily. We’re looking for a Director of Commercial Analytics on a 12-month fixed-term basis to lead a high-performing team and advance our data-driven culture. You can be based in Glasgow, Edinburgh, or London, with a hybrid policy of working in the office twice a week.

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.

What you’ll be doing

• 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.

About Skyscanner and our values

We are the real deal — no corporate gloss, no empty promises. We’re committed to an inclusive workplace and equal opportunities for all. If you require reasonable adjustments for interviews, please let us know. We’re also available to share information on hybrid working and parental leave policies on request.

Equity and inclusion

Skyscanner is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Next steps

Sound like your kind of adventure? Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.

Job details

• Seniority level: Director
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Research, Analyst, and Information Technology
• Industries: Technology, Information and Internet