Senior IR Analyst

easyjet; England; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading low-cost airline based in the UK is seeking a full-time professional for a role focusing on Industrial Relations. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical and stakeholder management skills. This position involves decision-making, reporting, and coordinating annual meetings in a hybrid work environment. With 40 hours per week, this role is perfect for individuals who excel in fast-paced settings and possess exceptional project management capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience in business-focused operations or people roles.
• Enjoy working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Delivery focused, creative thinker.
• Decisive, analytical, and organized.

Responsibilities

• Enhance information quality for decision making.
• Produce monthly reporting packs.
• Facilitate annual large-scale meetings.
• Source and use multiple data for reports.

Skills

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Project management

Change management

Commercial mindset

Communication skills

Data insight

Tools

Excel

Gen AI

AIMs

Job description

Overview

You’ll join a team of seven, responsible for facilitating Industrial Relations across nine jurisdictions and around 35 representative bodies. The team identifies risks and opportunities, advises on strategy, develops win‑win solutions for our people and shareholders, and ensures agreements are reached on time and in a sustainable fashion, all while delivering our People strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Enhance the quality of information used to inform decisions, considering business goals, the competitive landscape, and the objectives of our social partners.
• Take analysis, reporting and insight capability to a new standard, enabling fast and informed decision making.
• Play a key role in analysis and recommendations for fleet basing and allocation.
• Produce monthly reporting packs and Steer Co packs, and develop insight to advise negotiations.
• Coordinate annual conferences, maintain a library of agreements, and use generative AI to improve accessibility of agreements.
• Identify and track cost, productivity, contract structures and change initiatives, integrating the IR agenda into the Ops People Strategy.
• Source and use data from multiple sources to create reports and dashboards.
• Facilitate annual large‑scale meetings and provide dynamic support to IR Business Partners.

Job Details

This full‑time role will be based in Luton and will be 40 hours per week. We support hybrid working and we spend 60% of our time per month in the office.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience in business‑focused operations or people roles, with a strong commercial mindset and analytical skills.
• Enjoy working in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment, delivering results and driving change through data and insight.
• Business‑focused operations or people specialist with a commercial mindset.
• Delivery focused, creative thinker with a can‑do approach.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and project management skills.
• Experience in change management and driving productivity and performance improvement.
• Ability to draw insight from data and provide persuasive challenge.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to build trust and challenge across functions.
• Experience with Gen AI, in depth knowledge of Excel, AIMs, and working with industrial agreements is desirable.
• Decisive, analytical, and organised, with excellent time management and communication skills.
• Able to manage multiple tasks and priorities, working well to deadlines under pressure.

About easyJet

We are easyJet – a FTSE‑100 listed, £multi‑billion low‑cost airline that serves tens of millions of customers every single year. If you’re reading this, you have probably already been an easyJet customer, and you’ll know that there is no more iconic (or Orange!) travel brand in Europe.
We fly more than 1,207 routes, connecting 38 countries across Europe, and employ more than 18,000 colleagues. We’re on a mission to make low‑cost travel easy – and whatever your role here, you’ll connect millions of people to what they love using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.
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