Senior Manager, Strategy & Operations

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid with office attendance required at least 60% of the time over a 12-week period. A 28-day work-from-abroad policy is available.

Salary: £75,000–£85,000 per year plus bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a publicly listed travel technology company enabling travellers to find and book rail and coach tickets through its mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.

What you will do

• Shape the strategy for the Hotels and Car Hire businesses and translate it into roadmaps, milestones, and success metrics.
• Own end-to-end programmes covering new product launches, feature rollouts, and other major New Verticals initiatives.
• Track cross-functional dependencies, risks, and decisions, driving issues to resolution.
• Build and run programme governance, leadership reporting, business reviews, and steering committee materials.
• Coordinate with Legal, Compliance, Finance, Product, Design, and Commercial stakeholders.
• Influence senior stakeholders and resolve cross-team friction without formal authority.

Requirements

• Strong programme or project management experience, ideally with complex multi-stakeholder launches.
• Structured and analytical approach, including the ability to build plans, frameworks, and reporting from scratch.
• Executive-level communication skills and confidence presenting to steering committees and working groups.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and experience influencing senior leaders.
• Bias to action and comfort working with ambiguity and building new operating models.
• Ability to work from the London office at least 60% of the time over a 12-week period.

Nice to have

• Experience in hotels, travel, travel technology, or the online travel agency sector.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct exposure to senior leadership and C-suite stakeholders while building new business lines.
• Opportunity to work across Strategy, Product, Commercial, and Operations from planning through launch.
• Private healthcare and dental insurance, family-friendly benefits, and extra festive time off.
• 28-day work-from-abroad policy, share purchase plan, and electric vehicle scheme.
• Clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days.
• Inclusive, collaborative culture focused on customer impact, teamwork, sustainability, and ownership.