About Skyscanner
Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️. That’s why we have spent 20 years building tools that turn travel‑planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 160 million travellers count on us every month to skip the “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily .
About The Role (Hybrid)
Skyscanner’s Executive Support team is looking for a Senior Executive Assistant to support our Executive leadership team. You will expect to anticipate needs, think critically, and handle sensitive matters with professionalism and discretion.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Provide high‑level calendar and diary management for the Executive team – prioritising requests, resolving scheduling conflicts, and making strategic decisions to ensure optimal use of time.
- Independently manage complex travel arrangements including booking flights, accommodation, processing visas, and preparing detailed itineraries.
- Organise and manage logistics for internal and external meetings – preparing agendas, formatting documents, taking minutes, and ensuring follow‑up on action items.
- Process expense reports and manage email correspondence, flagging urgent messages and helping to prioritise responses.
- Facilitate team events and offsite days – venue bookings, travel arrangements, agenda preparation and on‑day coordination.
- Help set the cadence for leadership team operations, ensuring meetings are purposeful, follow‑ups are tracked, and strategic priorities stay on course.
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows by leveraging AI tools and automation, reducing manual effort, enhancing efficiency, and enabling the team to focus on higher‑value work.
About You
- A self‑starter with exceptional organisational and time‑management skills.
- A proactive, strategic thinker who anticipates needs and takes initiative to streamline operations and drive impact.
- An excellent communicator who builds strong relationships and liaises confidently with senior stakeholders.
- Comfortable juggling multiple priorities in a fast‑moving environment.
- Tech‑savvy with strong attention to detail and a solutions‑focused mindset.
- Trusted to handle confidential information with integrity and discretion.
- Passionate about continuous improvement and delivering exceptional support.
- Thrives in a collaborative, high‑energy environment and brings a positive, can‑do attitude to your work.
What It’s Like Here
We are the real deal – no corporate gloss, no empty promises. We are a diverse team of genuinely curious and caring humans ❤️, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier …