Rachel Lunn

Rachel Lunn spent 11+ years as Recruitment Lead at Toyota Material Handling, one of the world's largest material handling businesses, where she built and ran hiring processes for senior commercial seats across the UK and Europe. Her remit covered everything from role definition through executive search, structured commercial assessment, offer construction and post-hire integration. She has personally led searches for Sales Directors, VPs of Sales, Heads of Revenue Operations and CRO-equivalent roles, and has reviewed thousands of senior commercial CVs.

Rachel founded Evara in 2026 because she had grown frustrated with how recruitment is sold to SMEs. Most contingent agencies push CVs against a job description that was never properly written; most retained agencies charge premium fees for the same volume-led process dressed up in better paperwork. Neither model defines the role properly before the search begins, neither screens candidates against commercial outcomes, and neither holds itself accountable for whether the hire actually works once they are in seat.

The ALIGN hiring methodology is the codified version of how Rachel has always run a search. It enforces a structured kick-off, a written role definition with measurable outcomes, a commercial screening rubric agreed upfront, a stakeholder-aligned interview cadence held to calendar, and a post-offer integration plan. Hires placed through ALIGN have a track record of staying and performing past the eighteen-month mark, which is the threshold at which a senior commercial hire begins to compound rather than cost.

Rachel works directly with founders, CEOs and revenue leaders across the UK and Europe. She is calm under pressure, structurally minded, and unafraid to tell a client that the role is wrong before agreeing to start the search.