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 160 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 for all 🌍.

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here).

Now, we’re on the lookout for a Compensation Manager (12-month FTC) to help us bring that vision to even more travellers. 

About the role 

(Hybrid)

We’re looking for a Compensation Manager to support the design and delivery of competitive, equitable compensation programs across the business. This role partners closely with senior leaders and People teams to provide data-driven guidance on pay decisions, ensuring alignment with market benchmarks and internal frameworks. 

You’ll play a key role in delivering the annual compensation cycle, advising on complex compensation topics, and helping to evolve our approach as the organization grows. 

What you’ll be doing

• Support the planning and execution of the annual compensation cycle, including salary reviews, bonus processes, and equity allocations 

• Lead end-to-end compensation-related projects, taking full ownership and accountability to ensure successful delivery 

• Partner with senior leaders and HR Business Partners to advise on compensation decisions, including offers, promotions, and retention cases 

• Deliver clear, high-quality reward analytics and insights to senior stakeholders, with a focus on compensation, market data, and emerging trends 

• Conduct market benchmarking using industry-standard sources and translate insights into practical recommendations 

• Maintain and refine salary ranges, pay structures, and compensation guidelines 

• Analyze internal pay data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities related to equity and competitiveness 

• Provide clear, data-backed insights to stakeholders to support decision-making 

• Contribute to the development and documentation of compensation policies and processes 

• Support governance and ensure compensation practices are consistent and compliant 

About you

• Experience in compensation, ideally within the technology or software industry 

• Strong familiarity with compensation benchmarking tools and datasets (e.g., Radford, Mercer, WTW or similar) 

• Hands-on experience supporting or leading an end-to-end annual compensation cycle  

• Proven experience working with and influencing senior stakeholders on compensation-related topics  

• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines  

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to build relationships and collaborate across all areas of the business. Ability to communicate complex compensation concepts in a clear and practical way 

• Proactive and enthusiastic, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to use initiative 

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data and provide actionable recommendations 

• High attention to detail and strong organizational skills 

Nice to Have 

• Experience with equity or long-term incentive programs 

• Exposure to scaling or evolving compensation frameworks in a growing organization 

• Familiarity with job architecture and leveling frameworks 

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.

Spire Global is a space-to-cloud data and analytics company that owns and operates one of the largest constellations of satellites. Our proprietary data collection and processing techniques provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, weather, and earth intelligence data in the world. In addition to our comprehensive data services, Spire provides access to our satellite systems, global ground station network, and cloud-based processing infrastructure to offer unprecedented Space Services. 

As a Senior Bid Manager focused on supporting satellite development bidding activity, you will join a growing team responsible for providing unique space-based solutions to commercial and government customers. You will engage directly with several internal stakeholders including Engineering, Sales, Legal, finance as well as customers to deliver compelling proposals. You will collaborate closely with your Sales colleagues to manage the internal pipeline of opportunities through Spire’s sales governance, as well as developing customer specific high impact value propositions.

The role of the Senior Bid Manager requires a methodical, customer centric mindset with outstanding attention to detail and ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with all levels of the organization. It will require developing a deep understanding of Spire’s technical capabilities and customer environment to deliver winning proposals.

Responsibilities of your role:

• Be a senior member of the Bid and Sales Engineering (SE) team, responsible for ensuring Spire’s proposals are delivered with consistently high quality, customer-value focused content
• Own the bid process and ensure proposals are managed through review gates, including scope, schedule, cost and risk reviews
• Develop value propositions with SE and Sales, translating these effectively into custom proposals 
• Work with Sales and Sales engineering to ensure the technical writing and graphics in proposals is to a high standard
• Lead both fast paced commercial and high value & complexity government tenders
• Owning the core templates for proposals to customers
• Owning the templates for internal deliverable templates required for submitting proposals supporting Spire’s Sales Review Process

Required Qualifications / Experience:

• 6+ years of experience in a bid/proposals/capture management role, leading cross-functional teams
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant Business, Finance or Engineering field
• Proven track record of managing highly complex bid pipelines, ideally in the Aerospace or Space industry
• The drive and energy to work in a fast paced, high-performance environment
• Proven track record in generation of value propositions for tenders in commercial or government customers & proficient use of business winning toolkits to deliver compelling proposals
  
  

Strong candidates will also possess skills or have direct experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Experience in the development of competitive tenders
• Knowledge and experience of business finance, working with subject matter experts on costing for high complexity programmes
• Experience in risk management & generation of risk registers for bids
• Experience of bid planning and management for high value, complexity and volume of bids through internal governance, effectively managing internal stakeholders to ensure on time delivery.
• Experience in government bidding in regulatory onerous environments, such as Aerospace and Space
• Proficiency in technical writing of proposals documents
  
  

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office. Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying.   #LI-MI1

Spire Global is a space-to-cloud data and analytics company that owns and operates one of the largest constellations of satellites. Our proprietary data collection and processing techniques provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, weather, and earth intelligence data in the world. In addition to our comprehensive data services, Spire provides access to our satellite systems, global ground station network, and cloud-based processing infrastructure to offer unprecedented Space Services. 

As a Senior Bid Manager focused on supporting satellite development bidding activity, you will join a growing team responsible for providing unique space-based solutions to commercial and government customers. You will engage directly with several internal stakeholders including Engineering, Sales, Legal, finance as well as customers to deliver compelling proposals. You will collaborate closely with your Sales colleagues to manage the internal pipeline of opportunities through Spire’s sales governance, as well as developing customer specific high impact value propositions.

The role of the Senior Bid Manager requires a methodical, customer centric mindset with outstanding attention to detail and ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with all levels of the organization. It will require developing a deep understanding of Spire’s technical capabilities and customer environment to deliver winning proposals.

Responsibilities of your role

• Be a senior member of the Bid and Sales Engineering (SE) team, responsible for ensuring Spire’s proposals are delivered with consistently high quality, customer-value focused content
• Own the bid process and ensure proposals are managed through review gates, including scope, schedule, cost and risk reviews
• Develop value propositions with SE and Sales, translating these effectively into custom proposals 
• Work with Sales and Sales engineering to ensure the technical writing and graphics in proposals is to a high standard
• Lead both fast paced commercial and high value & complexity government tenders
• Owning the core templates for proposals to customers
• Owning the templates for internal deliverable templates required for submitting proposals supporting Spire’s Sales Review Process

Required Qualifications / Experience:

• 6+ years of experience in a bid/proposals/capture management role, leading cross-functional teams
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant Business, Finance or Engineering field
• Proven track record of managing highly complex bid pipelines, ideally in the Aerospace or Space industry
• The drive and energy to work in a fast paced, high-performance environment
• Proven track record in generation of value propositions for tenders in commercial or government customers & proficient use of business winning toolkits to deliver compelling proposals
  
  

Strong candidates will also possess skills or have direct experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Experience in the development of competitive tenders
• Knowledge and experience of business finance, working with subject matter experts on costing for high complexity programmes
• Experience in risk management & generation of risk registers for bids
• Experience of bid planning and management for high value, complexity and volume of bids through internal governance, effectively managing internal stakeholders to ensure on time delivery.
• Experience in government bidding in regulatory onerous environments, such as Aerospace and Space
• Proficiency in technical writing of proposals documents
  
  

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office. Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. #LI-MI1