Job Description
Location: UK, Hybrid (Must be able to attend Twinkl HQ in Sheffield as required)
Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Fixed Term, until 30th September 2026
Line Manager: Emily Wilde
Recruiter: Frazer Morton
About the Role:
Are you a strategic HR professional ready to translate business goals into people strategies? As our HR Business Partner, you will play a critical role in enabling performance, driving growth, and enhancing organisational effectiveness. You will deliver scalable workforce solutions, strengthen leadership capability, and actively shape our culture to achieve sustainable business outcomes.
What this role will involve:
* Business Strategy Translation: Convert business objectives into proactive people strategies that unlock performance and growth
* Organisational Design: Shape people structures and ways of working to enable agility and effectiveness
* Culture as a Competitive Advantage: Architect culture interventions that attract top talent and drive discretionary effort
* Leadership Advisory: Challenge and counsel leaders on key people decisions that impact business outcomes
* Employment Risk & Relations: Ensure the organisation operations within robust, scalable frameworks that enable performance and mitigate risk
What We're Looking For:
* Business strategy fluency and commercial thinking
* Workforce planning and data-driven design
* Experience with organisational design frameworks and system thinking
* Culture diagnostics, behavioural change, and employer brand
* Executive presence, strategic counsel, and the courage to challenge
* Proactive management of employee relations, employment law compliance and policy / procedure design
* Influencing and advisory skills, enabling leaders to make confident, compliant people decisions
* Discretion and professionalism, handling sensitive matters with integrity and consistency
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
* Referral scheme
* 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
If you are ready to be a trusted advisor who constructively challenges, enables growth, and ensures HR is seen as a key business driver, apply now!