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Creative Head Location: Elland, Halifax, HX5 9JP Hours: 37.5 hours per week Working Pattern: Full-time, on-site, 5 days per week careers.asafe.com
Are you a creative leader who thrives on raising the bar and challenging thinking while staying hands-on in day-to-day work? Someone with energy and creative conviction who helps push everything to the next level?
As Creative Head at A-SAFE, you will bring direction, authority, and creativity to our expanding in-house studio. This leadership role involves shaping the creative vision without managing a direct team. Expect to lead by example: set a higher standard, encourage bold ideas, introduce fresh perspectives, and deliver outstanding work. You’ll help elevate the studio's creative impact—determining direction for product launches, campaigns, brand systems, and storytelling—while based at our UK headquarters in Elland.
How You Will Make an Impact
You’ll drive creative excellence across studio output, ensuring consistency and exceptional quality. Core responsibilities include:
- Taking ownership of creative direction for all studio projects.
- Pushing ideas further by refining concepts, challenging briefs, and fostering stronger creative thinking.
- Serving as the final creative sign-off authority for key initiatives, defining quality expectations across craft and execution.
- Developing campaigns, product launches, and brand initiatives based on impactful concepts.
- Translating commercial and product briefs into compelling, relevant, and effective creative solutions.
- Staying hands-on with delivery, contributing directly to design, concepts, layouts, and execution as needed.
- Inspiring and mentoring a multidisciplinary team (approx. 10 creatives), helping build confidence and capability.
- Providing clear, constructive feedback to improve both work and individuals.
- Driving a shift toward a more proactive, idea-led creative culture,/injecting energy and momentum into the studio.
- Collaborating closely with the Marketing Studio Manager and aligning creative work with marketing, product, and commercial teams.
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What We Are Looking For
We’re seeking a visionary creative leader with:
- Proven senior experience in agency, studio, or brand environments.
- A strong graphic design background, capable of leading by example and delivering high-quality work across formats.
- A multidisciplinary mindset (comfortable tackling campaigns, branding, digital, and content).
- A track record of improving creative standards and raising output quality.
- Experience mentoring or leading creative teams, guiding growth and skill development.
- Strong conceptual problem-solving, consistently refining ideas and elevating execution.
- Ability to balance creativity and speed, delivering work that meets quality while meeting deadlines.
- A portfolio demonstrating bold thinking alongside exceptional craftsmanship.
Essential traits for this role include:
- An energetic, proactive, collaborative attitude.
- Confidence to challenge constructively—vigorously pushing ideas but remaining respected and engaging.
- An instinct to raise standards through leadership and execution.
- A knack for coaching and inspiring others to reach their best.
- Commercial awareness—aligning creative choices with business goals.
- Curiosity and ambition, always seeking to do better.
Why Join A-SAFE?
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This role brings deep creative ownership, allowing you to shape A-SAFE’s global brand presence—your ideas and direction will influence everything from product launches to board-level policies. You’ll work with:
- A talented team ready for long-term growth.
- A fast-paced environment, seeing your work progress quickly.
- Opportunities to fundamentally redesign how A-SAFE presents itself around the world.
- Level of autonomy where you own ideas fully, establish creative authority, and set industry benchmarks for A-SAFE.
As the subject-matter expert and final creative voice in an expanding discipline, you’ll not only define A-SAFE’s creative ethos—you’ll shape how it collaborates with heavyweights like Coca-Cola, BMW, and Amazon.
Why A-SAFE?
For 37 years, A-SAFE has pioneered industrial safety solutions. From inventing world-first polymer safety barriers to introducing the award-winning IoT system RackEye™, we are a global leader in safety innovation with 17 international subsidiaries working with Fortune 500 clients across different sectors.
Our core values underpin everything we do:
- We Are Pioneers – Treat challenges as an endlessly evolving landscape of opportunities.
- We Are in It Together – Teamwork propels us forward, especially in tough times.
- We Do the Right Thing – Integrity and honesty in every decision.
We’re also committed to building inclusive teams. Our diversity initiatives create collaborative workplaces where vibrant differences spark innovation and enrich every project.
Ready to inspire a new era of workplace safety?
Apply now and join the team crafting a safer future. Find more opportunities on our Careers Page.
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