HR Business Partner

LADbible Group is one of the world’s most engaged digital entertainment businesses, reaching over a billion people globally and amassing more than 13.9 billion social views each month. With a powerhouse portfolio across general lifestyle, entertainment, sport, gaming, and tech, our brands: - including LADbible, UNILAD, GAMINGbible, and UNILAD Tech, are some of the most recognised and culturally relevant on the internet. About The Role We are looking for an HR Business Partner to support our 360 team, partnering across Sales and Creative in a fast-paced, commercially driven environment. This is a hands‑on partnering role focused on helping leaders build high‑performing, adaptable teams by bringing confidence, clarity and pace to people decisions. You will work closely with leaders and managers to strengthen performance, team effectiveness, engagement and manager capability, while also helping to shape scalable learning and development solutions that support business growth. Although this is a HR Business Partner role, we are particularly interested in candidates who bring strength in learning and development, people development, or capability building. We are looking for someone who can take broad business needs and turn them into practical, scalable development solutions that improve performance and create more consistency across teams. This role would suit someone who is comfortable operating in ambiguity, can influence with credibility, and brings a resourceful, creative and pragmatic approach to solving people challenges. You will be part of a collaborative People team model, with HR Ops Excellence and first‑line ER processes supported by the HR Coordinator, allowing you to focus on leadership coaching, organisational effectiveness, complex casework, and capability‑building initiatives that have visible business impact. What The Opportunity Looks Like Strategic Business Partnering * Partner with leaders across the 360 team, including Sales and Creative, to understand business priorities and translate them into practical people plans. * Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, providing commercially grounded advice and challenge on performance, team effectiveness, structure and capability. * Support leaders to make strong people decisions that balance business priorities, employee experience and risk. * Use people insight, feedback and business context to identify themes, spot risks early and prioritise action. Manager Capability, Learning and Development * Coach managers to build confidence and consistency in how they lead teams. * Support leaders on core people fundamentals including goal setting, feedback, accountability, performance conversations, team effectiveness and managing underperformance early. * Identify capability gaps and development priorities across the 360 team in partnership with business leaders. * Design and embed scalable learning and development initiatives, including training programmes, workshops, toolkits and blended learning solutions, that strengthen performance and team effectiveness. * Bring creativity and resourcefulness to development solutions, using internal expertise, external ideas and fit‑for‑purpose tools to deliver impact without unnecessary complexity. * Work with stakeholders to ensure learning interventions are relevant, adopted by managers and tied to clear business outcomes. * Support capability‑building initiatives that improve consistency in how the Client Solutions / Sales team talks to clients about LADbible Group, while allowing enough flexibility to work effectively across different agency patches. Performance, Talent and Growth * Support talent planning and development for key roles, with a focus on growth, capability and internal mobility. * Partner with the wider People team to align talent and development activity with business priorities. * Help embed a culture of continuous development, high performance and feedback. Organisational Effectiveness and Change * Support leaders through change, ensuring clarity on structure, roles, ways of working and expectations. * Provide guidance on change communications, engagement and team health to maintain focus and momentum. * Partner with the Head of HR on org design, restructuring activity and wider people change where needed. Culture, Engagement and Employee Experience * Help leaders turn engagement insights into practical action that improves team experience and performance. * Reinforce values and inclusive leadership behaviours across the 360 team. * Support an environment where people are clear on expectations, connected to the business and equipped to do their best work. Data‑led Partnering and Collaboration * Use people data and insight to identify trends, inform priorities and measure impact across areas such as attrition, absence, engagement and ER themes. * Define success measures and track progress across key people initiatives, including manager capability, development activity and engagement actions. * Work closely with the HR Coordinator and wider People team to improve manager self‑serve, streamline processes and deliver a joined‑up People approach. Skills and experience wed like you to have * Proven experience in a business partnering role within People, for example as an HR Business Partner, People Partner, Learning & Development Business Partner, People Development Partner, Talent Development Partner, or a similar role. * Experience supporting leaders and managers in a fast‑paced, commercially driven environment. * Experience designing and embedding scalable learning, development or capability‑building initiatives that improve team performance. * Confident handling employee relations matters directly, or able to demonstrate strong judgement and transferable experience from a people development or partnering background. * Strong coaching capability, with experience helping managers build confidence and consistency in how they lead teams. * Resourceful, creative and hands‑on, with the ability to build effective solutions without over‑engineering. * Comfortable using people data, business insight and feedback to prioritise actions and measure impact. * Experience in media, digital, creative or content‑led environments would be helpful, but is not essential. Qualifications * CIPD qualified (Level 5 minimum) or equivalent experience. * Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and people best practice. What We Offer * A highly visible HRBP role supporting a commercially important part of the business across Sales and Creative. * The opportunity to shape both people partnering and capability‑building in a role with real scope and impact. * A collaborative People team model with clear pillar ownership and strong operational support enabling high‑value business partnering. * Disruptive HR membership. At LADbible Group weve rolled out blended working which means the majority of departments across the business (including London, Manchester and International offices) work in the office 3 days per week. LADbible Group is an equal opportunities employer. We are determined to create a diverse group at all levels of our company and we welcome all members of the community to apply for openings with us. As the leading social youth publisher, we have a powerful global platform to better represent our audience and enable those that do not have equal opportunities to have their voices heard. As a business, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce, in an environment where everyone feels comfortable to be themselves. J-18808-Ljbffr