Formula 1
Head of Creative Solutions
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At Formula 1, we are passionate about delivering the world’s greatest sports and entertainment spectacle leaving a positive legacy wherever we race. Innovation has always been at the heart of what we do ever since our first Grand Prix in 1950. Now, more than 75 years on, the sport remains a pioneer, developing technologies that have made a significant impact on society beyond the track. Everything you see on screen or at an event comes via our passionate and dedicated people. Whether its engineering, broadcast, legal, logistics, security, event management, commercial, media rights, marketing, or communications there is always a talented team working to maximise the potential of the sport.
Role Overview:
As the Head of Creative Solutions, you will be responsible for leading and evolving the Creative Solutions team, establishing a high-performing function that delivers world-class creative outputs aligned with Formula 1’s commercial ambitions and production standards. In this role, you will provide strategic leadership across creative and commercial disciplines, create a unified team culture, embed best-practice ways of working, and ensure creative delivery is both operationally efficient and commercially impactful. You will play a critical role in shaping the future of the department, developing the team structure, processes, and capabilities required to support continued growth. Working closely with Commercial leadership and key stakeholders across the business, you will foster strong collaboration between creative and commercial teams, ensuring priorities are aligned and projects deliver maximum value for both internal stakeholders and external partners.
To be successful in this role, you will be a passionate and experienced leader with a proven track record of building high-performing creative teams, driving operational excellence, and delivering exceptional work in fast-paced, high-performance environments. You will be equally comfortable setting strategic direction, leading organisational change, and maintaining a relentless focus on delivery quality and execution.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership & Team Development
- Lead, inspire and unify the Creative Solutions team, creating a clear vision, identity and shared purpose.
- Build and maintain a high-performance culture that promotes collaboration, accountability, creativity and continuous improvement.
- Develop a department which supports current business priorities and future growth ambitions.
- Coach, mentor and develop team members, identifying development opportunities and building succession pathways.
- Foster a culture of engagement, empowerment and ownership across the department.
Operational Excellence & Ways of Working
- Collaborate with the team to establish and embed scalable processes that improve efficiency, quality and consistency across all creative outputs.
- Drive continuous improvement in team workflows, ensuring clear accountability and effective project delivery.
- Oversee the end-to-end delivery of creative spectacle projects, ensuring operational rigour and adherence to deadlines.
- Collaborate with the team to refresh existing and implement new governance frameworks, delivery tools and prioritisation processes to provide visibility and control across the project portfolio.
- Ensure all outputs consistently meet Formula 1’s production and quality standards.
Creative & Commercial Collaboration
- Create strong partnerships between creative and commercial teams, ensuring clear alignment of objectives and priorities.
- Work closely with Commercial leadership to ensure creative solutions effectively support commercial opportunities and client requirements.
- Align creative strategy and execution with wider business goals and commercial objectives.
- Encourage cross-functional collaboration and remove barriers that hinder effective teamwork.
- Promote a solutions-focused approach that balances creative excellence with commercial impact.
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Delivery & Performance Management
- Take ownership of delivery quality, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget and to the highest standards.
- Monitor team performance and output, using data, insights and feedback to drive continual improvement.
- Manage resource allocation across internal teams and external freelancers or consultants to maximise efficiency and capability.
- Ensure consistent excellence across all productions, projects and creative deliverables.
- Identify risks, dependencies and opportunities, implementing proactive solutions where required.
Stakeholder Management
- Act as the key interface between senior leadership, commercial stakeholders and creative teams.
- Build strong relationships across the organisation to support alignment, trust and successful project delivery.
- Communicate priorities, performance metrics, risks and opportunities clearly and effectively.
- Influence stakeholders at all levels to support strategic initiatives and operational improvements.
What Are We Looking For?
Personal Qualities
- A strategic and forward-thinking leader who can balance long-term vision with operational delivery.
- Passionate about creative excellence and producing work of the highest quality.
- Collaborative and inclusive, with the ability to unite diverse teams around a common purpose.
- Delivery-focused and results-driven, able to thrive in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- An excellent communicator and influencer, capable of building strong relationships across all levels of the organisation.
- Resilient and adaptable, comfortable leading teams through change and ambiguity.
- Highly organised with strong prioritisation and decision-making skills.
- Committed to developing people and creating an environment where individuals can perform at their best.
Experience
- Significant leadership experience within a creative, production, content or similar environment.
- A proven track record of organisational design, process improvement and operational transformation.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and building strong collaboration between multiple business functions.
- Successfully delivered high-quality creative outputs within a fast-paced environment.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and engage senior leaders.
- Experience implementing scalable processes, governance frameworks and delivery methodologies.
- Experience managing team performance, resource planning and operational priorities.
Some desirable experience that you may bring to the role:
- Experience within sports, media, broadcast or other high-performance creative environments.
- Experience managing a combination of internal teams and external freelance or consultant resources.
- Understanding of commercial production, brand partnerships or client-led creative delivery models.
- Experience leading large-scale change initiatives or business transformation programmes.
Qualifications
- Not essential, but you may also have the following qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Creative Media, Production Management or a related discipline.
- Leadership or management qualifications.
- Project management or operational excellence certifications.
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Knowledge & Skills
- Strong leadership and people management capability.
- Excellent organisational design and operational planning skills.
- Strong understanding of creative production and delivery processes.
- Experience implementing effective governance, workflows and delivery frameworks.
- Ability to align creative solutions with broader commercial and business objectives.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data and insight to drive decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Effective resource planning and workload management capability.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to maintain quality and attention to detail within a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of business priorities.
Why join the force behind the sport?
Joining F1 means becoming part of a team that values innovation, collaboration and personal growth. We offer a dynamic work environment where ideas are heard, and employee contributions truly make an impact. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people to play their role in accelerating the future of the sport. As a member of the F1 team, you will be able to access our amazing benefits:
- Private Healthcare scheme
- Dental Care
- 4 x Grand Prix Paddock passes per season
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave and other family planning policies
- A free staff shuttle service running to and from surrounding trains stations near to Biggin Hill
- Free healthy snacks in our offices
- Subsidised canteen in Biggin Hill, serving breakfast and lunch
- 25 days annual leave and 8 Bank Holiday days, plus a Christmas period closure
- Opportunities to develop and request training for your role via our in-house Learning and Development team
- Discount on F1 merchandise
- Discount at F1’s experiences including F1 Arcade and F1 Drive
- Perkbox benefit portal and more
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We only communicate with candidates through official @f1.com email addresses. We will never contact you via personal email accounts, messaging apps, or request payment as part of our recruitment process. If you receive suspicious communication claiming to be from our talent team, please report it to recruitment@f1.com.
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Here's how we roll
Formula 1® delivers the world’s greatest sports and entertainment spectacle with innovation, inclusivity, and sustainability at the heart of its future growth and value. As the global rights holders of this incredible sport our team delivers the 24-race calendar direct to our passionate fans around the globe. Everything you see on screen or at an event comes via our people at F1. Whether its engineering, broadcast, legal, logistics, security, event management, commercial, media rights, marketing, and communications there is always a driven and talented team working to maximise the potential of the sport.
We are focused on delivering the best for our fans and partners while also ensuring we do the right thing as a business and use the power of Formula 1 to make a positive contribution to the places we visit and to our own community. That is why sustainability and accessibility are part of every decision F1 makes. Our commitment to being Net Zero by 2030 is already reducing our emissions both on and off the track, and our focus on diversity and inclusion ensures everyone is welcome.
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