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We are Gass Associates, a Creative Recruitment Agency with exceptional connections. We have the experience, know-how and contacts to help you find your dream job or perfect candidate.
Valerie Gascoyne
Owner/Founder
A small but perfectly formed creative recruitment consultancy
Creative Matchmaker, talent spotter with decades of UK and Global experience. Valerie has a genuine interest in people, their aspirations and career progression. Well connected with an unparalleled reputation for putting the right people in the right places.
Featured Vacancies
We’re constantly on the look-out for top talent. Here is a small sample of the latest opportunities we are currently recruiting for.
Strategy Director needed for leading Design Consultancy.
My client is looking for a Strategy Director with at least 5 year’s experience who sets the standard for strategic thinking and brand impact. This is brilliant opportunity to make your mark.
You will own the thinking, shape the work, and elevate the ambition of teams and clients alike. You will lead from the front, setting direction, making decisions, and ensuring strategy is both intellectually
rigorous and creatively powerful.
You’ll play a central role within the London studio, and across the global Strategy team – working on iconic brands and ambitious challengers. Your focus is clear: to make brands more meaningful, more unmistakable, and more effective.
You are a strategist who leads through action, not just tenure. You bring clarity, perspective, and conviction to the work.
- Significant experience in Brand Strategy within a brand-led agency.
- Proven ability to lead complex projects and deliver high quality strategic outputs.
- Strong authorship in storytelling, able to distil complexity into simple, powerful ideas.
- Design literacy and a deep understanding of how brands exist in the world.
- Digital fluency and an active engagement with how technology and AI are shaping brands, creativity, business, and culture.
- A sharp understanding of consumer behaviour, culture, and commercial dynamics.
- Confidence operating at senior client level, including C-suite conversations.
- A mindset that balances rigour and instinct, logic and imagination.
This is a wonderful opportunity to work in an employee-owned ambitious collaborative energetic team,where your career will flourish.
Senior Designer required for progressive Design consultancy.
We need a Senior packaging Designer with experience working on Tobacco Projects.
The projects range from brand rejuvenations, limited editions packs, communication campaigns and even an internal communication platform. Ranging from large global brands, all the way to smaller specialist brands and newer products to help consumers move away from traditional tobacco.
The ideal candidate should possess a comprehensive understanding of brands beyond packaging. While branded packaging remains our core area of expertise, we are increasingly receiving requests from clients who value our ability to demonstrate broader ideas that extend beyond packaging and encompass communication and activation.
It is crucial that the candidate has a good understanding of the category codes and semiotics within the tobacco industry and beyond. A good demonstration of crafting brands that live and breathe in very small canvas sizes and within a highly a regulated industry would be necessary.
Standard requirements.
- Confidence and natural drive to interact and present to clients
- Have a positive attitude and effectively lead and manage the junior members of the creative team
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- Strong inter-personal skills allied with the ability to negotiate and influence
- An understanding of the wider commercial/strategic opportunities.
- Attend briefing sessions externally with the client and internally with team members
- Help build presentations, or sections of, where appropriate.
- Help with planning and prioritising individual deadlines and workloads whilst ensuring timings and budgets are adhered to
This is an exciting opportunity to work with a positive energetic team in a pleasing environment.
You will be expected to be in the Agency 2/3 days per week.
Hire with
Confidence
Whether you need a creative for a day or an account director for a decade, we can help your agency recruit the ideal talent. Gass covers all aspects of roles within the creative sector, across all disciplines. We work on both permanent and freelance positions.
- Access Top Talent
- Time Saving
- Expert Screening
- Industry Expertise
- Well Connected
- Integrity
“Valerie has been an exceptional partner in my journey through the UK design industry. Her dedication and expertise not only secured my first job in this highly competitive field but also opened doors globally later from Singapore. Her support has truly transformed my life, and I can’t thank her enough for the opportunities she’s brought my way. Valerie’s professionalism and commitment are unparalleled.”
Gökçe Şahbaz
APAC
Executive Creative Director
Dragon Rouge
Valerie is the doyenne of recruitment having decades of experience at the
most senior level in the agency world. Her network, business understanding and emotional intelligence are second to none. She always finds interesting talent for any brief and does so with efficiency, style, grace and humour.
JOHN WRINGE
MANAGING PARTNER
THE MARKETECTS LIMITED
I am always confident that Valerie will find exceptional candidates. She has the experience and a network that always delivers the best, this and her knack of delivering the perfect fit and chemistry make her one of the best in the business.
ZAINA MUIR
Bloom London
We hire within these sectors
These industries are constantly evolving and require professionals with specific skills and experience.
Integrated Agencies
Healthcare
Corporate Communications
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