Principal Strategy Manager

About this role

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


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)
Big questions, real impact:
As a Principal Strategy Manager, you’ll sit at the sharp end of Skyscanner’s biggest decisions- the kind that shape where we play, how we win, and what we build next.


A true strategic partner:
You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with senior leaders across the business, helping them cut through complexity, prioritise what matters most, and move from debate to decision.


From thinking to doing:
This isn’t strategy that lives in a slide deck. You’ll stay close to delivery, helping teams turn bold ideas into real outcomes.


What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading strategic development: You’ll own priority strategy topics, from growth opportunities and vertical strategy to AI leadership and tech productivity.
• Partnering with senior leaders: You’ll collaborate across Product, Engineering, Commercial, Marketing, Finance and Data to align on the what and the how.
• Supporting top-level decisions: You’ll equip the C-suite and Board with clear narratives, sharp analysis and confident recommendations.
• Building robust business cases: You’ll create decision frameworks covering market sizing, competitive analysis, scenarios and ROI/value modelling.
• Turning strategy into action: You’ll translate strategy into initiatives, metrics, milestones and ownership, and stay involved through delivery.
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