Senior HR Business Partner

Twinkl Educational Publishing; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

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Location: UK (Must permanently live in the UK & have the right to work without restrictions to apply for this role), with the ability to commit to at least 2 days per week at our Twinkl HQ in Sheffield

Hours of work: 37.5hrs per week

Contract: 12 month fixed term

Line Manager: Amy Gray

Recruiter: Frazer Morton

This role will likely start during early July 2025

First things first! What is Twinkl? What is Twinkl's mission?

Twinkl is here to "help those who teach." It's what brings us to work every day. We're proud to create educational resources that can be used at each step of a child's learning journey.

Our award-winning resource collection - created by teachers for teachers - provides unlimited supplementary digital and printable teaching resources at an unbeatable value.

We have over a million editable resources, and new content is added every day. Don't see what you need? Just ask! We make bespoke resources for our members as part of our world-class customer service promise to help those who teach.

We support educators and children around the world, and we’re committed to transforming lives through education.

Whoever you are, whatever you teach, Twinkl is here for you!

The Role:

We’re looking for a Senior HR Business Partner to support and work closely with senior leaders to ensure that our people strategy aligns with business goals and fosters a high-performance, engaged workforce. As we continue to scale, this role is critical in driving HR initiatives, supporting leadership and ensuring employees have the tools, resources and development opportunities to thrive.

In addition to partnering with business leaders, this role will also line manage the HR administration team, ensuring smooth and efficient HR service delivery.

Ongoing projects/how you’ll spend your day:

• Acting as a strategic partner to senior leaders, providing guidance on talent planning, employee engagement and organisational effectiveness.
• Using HR data and analytics to identify workforce trends and provide data-driven recommendations to leadership.
• Managing complex employee relations cases, ensuring compliance and best practices.
• Supporting change management initiatives, including organisational design and workforce planning.
• Leading and managing the HR administration team, ensuring the effective delivery of HR processes and services.

To succeed in the role, you will:

• Have a strategic mindset, with the ability to align HR initiatives to business objectives.
• Be experienced in employee relations, performance management and talent development.
• Be comfortable using HR analytics and HRIS platforms to drive decisions.
• Have strong stakeholder management skills, able to influence and advise leaders.

You’ll work with:

• Leaders from departments across the business, acting as a strategic HR advisor.
• The HR administration team.
• The wider HR team, including Talent and Learning & Development.
• Finance and Legal teams.

We're interested in anyone who meets all of the following:

• Proven experience as a Senior HR Business Partner.
• Hold at least a Level 5 CIPD qualification.
• Experience managing HR administration teams.
• Excellent knowledge of employment law, employee relations and performance management.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, global or remote environment.
• Essential for remote working - You will need access to a fast and reliable internet connection of at least 6mb down and 1mb upload. We recommend you use speedtest.net to check.

In return for everything you can bring, we can offer you an exciting role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with plenty of career opportunities.

Here’s a couple of the things that make Twinkl a great place to be:

• A friendly, welcoming and supportive culture. We believe work should be fun and always put people before the process.
• Diversity, inclusion and belonging - our Employee Network Program includes working groups for LGBTQ+, People of Colour, Disabilities (visible and invisible), Women in Tech and Working Parents.
• From day 1 - Westfield Health, 33 annual leave days per year (pro-rata) inclusive bank holidays, a "Me" day each year, a charity day each year, flexible working policy with opportunities to work from home and Twinkl subscriptions.
• Quarterly company awards programme.
• Seasonal events.
• Cervical and Prostate screening.
• Company sick pay after 3 months of service.
• After probation - cycle-to-work scheme.
• Long-term service reward - Life insurance, enhanced pension contribution, enhanced maternity pay, enhanced adoption pay and enhanced paternity pay, long service award, long service annual leave.