HR Business Partner, LADbible Group
Salary not provided
Senior and Expert level
London
3+ days a week in office (Angel Square, London)
Online social publisher
Posted today
Online social publisher
201-500 employees
B2CB2BEnterprisePublishingEntertainmentDigital MediaSocial MediaCommunityMedia
Posted today
Salary not provided
Senior and Expert level
London
3+ days a week in office (Angel Square, London)
201-500 employees
B2CB2BEnterprisePublishingEntertainmentDigital MediaSocial MediaCommunityMedia
Company mission
To give the new youth generation a voice, building communities which laugh, think, and act.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- CIPD qualified (Level 5 minimum) or equivalent experience
- Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and people best practice
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
LADbible Group was founded to revolutionise news and entertainment for the new social media generation. It does this with brands such as UniLad and LADbible, providing shareable, viral clips and content.
With an agile approach, LADbible group is one of the new age publishers that have quickly become competitors to traditional, mainstream media networks. Whilst its audience is traditionally young men, it also launched the women-focused brand, Tyla, to expand its reach among consumers.
This sector continues to be competitive, but LADbible Group has a significant presence, established following and distinct identity. All of this allows the company to maintain a strong position and continue to grow.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Company HQ
Northern Quarter, Manchester, UK
Leadership
Solly Solomou
(Co-founder & CEO)Solly co-founded LADbible Group whilst studying Business Management at Leeds University.
Arian Kalantari
(Co-founder)Having studied at the University of Liverpool, Arian co-founded LADbible Group with Solly in September 2011.
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