100% confidential, always discreet

For senior commercial talent

Confidential Career Search.

A retained, highly personalised search partnership for senior commercial operators who refuse to let their next move be driven by a junior generalist with a CV and a quota. No CV uploaded anywhere. No scattergun outreach. One laser-focused next position that aligns with both your career and your lifestyle goals.

How this is different

You are not on a database. You are not a CV being shopped around. You are a retained engagement, run personally by Rachel Lunn, with a defined process, a defined output and a defined commitment to confidentiality at every step.

Built against the alternative

The job market for senior commercial people is broken at the top.

The default route looks like this. A junior or generalist recruiter you have never met messages you on LinkedIn. They have not run the role you do. They cannot pressure-test the business they are pitching. They want your CV, today, so they can paste it into a workflow alongside fifty others and see what sticks. Six weeks later you are deep in a process you should never have started, for a business that was never the right fit, with your name now visible to half the market.

Most senior commercial moves are not made for bad reasons. They are made for short-term, reactive ones. A bad quarter. A new boss. A counter-offer. A flattering inbound. Twelve months later you are looking again, and the market has noticed.

Confidential Career Search exists because senior commercial talent deserves better than that. Discreet. Strategic. Run by an operator. Anchored to where you are actually trying to get to over the next five years.

Free to the right candidates

No fee. No retainer. No catch.

The service is free of charge to you. Evara is paid by the employer at the point a hire is made, the same way a retained search works on the recruitment side. Nothing is invoiced to you, at any stage, ever.

In return, this is offered selectively. We only run a Confidential Career Search where the candidate, the level and the long-term direction genuinely fit what our client base is hiring for.

Eligibility, in plain terms

  • Senior commercial operator: Sales Director, Head of Sales, Commercial Director, senior BDM or Account Director
  • Demonstrable track record of revenue impact, not just tenure
  • Currently in role and not in active live process with multiple agencies
  • Genuinely ready for the next move, not casually testing the market
  • Comfortable with a confidential, retained-style process that takes weeks, not days

One short, confidential conversation with Rachel decides whether we take the brief on. If it is not the right fit, we will say so directly and point you to where it is, including to Rich's Bespoke Career Search where the brief sits at CRO, MD or board level.

Built for

The roles we run this for.

  • Sales Directors
  • Heads of Sales
  • Commercial Directors
  • Senior Business Development Managers
  • Senior Account Managers and Key Account Directors
  • High-performing commercial operators looking for a strategic next move

The process

Seven steps. Run personally. Confidential by default.

  1. Step 1

    01

    Deep-dive career strategy session

    A proper commercial and personal audit, before any conversation with the market. The point is clarity before movement.

    • Career history and the wins that actually shifted a number
    • Leadership style and what you are genuinely good at
    • Energy drivers and non-negotiables
    • Ideal culture, business stage and operating environment
    • Salary, equity and total reward expectations
    • Lifestyle goals: location, travel, hybrid, family
    • Industries and stages you thrive in (and the ones you do not)
    • Long-term direction, two and five years out
  2. Step 2

    02

    Positioning and narrative

    Most strong commercial people undersell themselves. We sharpen how the market reads you, before the market sees you.

    • LinkedIn profile rewritten for the audience that matters
    • CV restructured around commercial outcomes, not job descriptions
    • Commercial positioning and personal value proposition tightened
    • Leadership narrative built around the moments that prove it
    • Key achievements distilled to the numbers that move a buyer
  3. Step 3

    03

    Bespoke anonymous Executive Profile Pack

    A professionally written, anonymous, market-facing profile pack designed to position you properly with high-quality businesses before your identity is revealed. Not a CV. A commercial document.

    • Revenue impact, sized and proven
    • Leadership capability and team management track record
    • Sector experience and the environments you have operated in
    • Commercial strengths and where you genuinely add value
    • Growth achievements and strategic contribution
    • Presented confidentially, with no personal details and no current employer reference
  4. Step 4

    04

    Target market mapping

    Instead of applying everywhere, we build a focused hit list of the businesses where you would genuinely thrive. Highly targeted. No scattergun.

    • Founder-led businesses
    • PE-backed companies and portfolios
    • Scale-ups and growth-stage SMEs
    • Specific sectors and operating environments mapped against your strengths
  5. Step 5

    05

    Bespoke door opening

    This is where most recruiters stop and where Evara starts. We proactively open conversations with decision-makers, founders and investors where there is strong alignment, including opportunities that are not publicly advertised. No mass outreach. No sending profiles around. Every conversation handled confidentially and strategically.

  6. Step 6

    06

    Opportunity filtering

    Your time is not wasted in pointless interview processes. Every opportunity is pressure-tested against the criteria agreed in step one.

    • Commercial fit
    • Leadership fit
    • Culture and operating environment
    • Growth potential
    • Business stability
    • Package and total reward
    • Long-term upside
  7. Step 7

    07

    Interview, offer and landing support

    The move itself matters as much as the offer. You are supported through every stage of the conversation, the offer and the first 90 days in the new seat.

    • Interview preparation and structured rehearsal
    • Commercial presentation prep where required
    • Offer negotiation and total reward design
    • Counter-offer planning, before the resignation conversation
    • Resignation strategy and clean exit from the prior role
    • 30-60-90 landing plan for the first quarter in the new seat

Who this is for

Strategic career movers.

You are already performing. You are not in a rush. You are not putting your CV on a job board. You want one move, well, that fits both your career direction and your life.

  • A genuine step up, not a sideways move dressed up as one
  • Better leadership above you
  • Real upside, sensibly structured
  • A culture that genuinely fits the way you operate
  • Greater autonomy, ownership and scope
  • A package and a working pattern that fit your life, not just your CV
  • A clear five-year direction, not a twelve-month patch

Who this is not for

Reactive movers and tyre-kickers.

  • People who want to see what is out there
  • People taking a sideways move to feel busy
  • People reacting to a bad quarter, a new boss or a counter-offer
  • People comfortable having their CV on every job board and in every recruiter's inbox
  • People who want a decision in 48 hours rather than a decision they will not regret

That is not a judgement. It is just a different problem and a different service.

Confidential by default

Ready to talk?

One short, confidential conversation with Rachel Lunn. No CV required at this stage. If it is the right fit, we agree the brief and the engagement. If it is not, we shake hands and you have lost nothing.

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