Lisa Peacock-Edwards
Managing Director, Harris Armitage Consulting
I graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Psychology and started my career in Marketing & Advertising working for brands such as General Motors, Financial Times, Kimberly-Clark and Microsoft in the UK and Germany, before moving in to Executive Search.
My Executive Search expertise lies within Retail, Leisure and Consumer goods especially at Board & Director level across Commercial, Operations, Marketing, Property, Finance, HR and General Management where I have been working in the UK for the last 7 years focussing on International assignments. I work across Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Africa, Australia and the USA markets.
I work with several of the global top 10 retailers and also a number of Fortune 100 on an exclusive basis focussing on introducing top local and ex-pat talent into their organisations. I specialise in International assignments in developing markets, i.e. CEE, Middle East, Asia and Africa. I have a provn track record of delivering results for UK/US companies who need to find top talent for their International expansion. I am known for my ability to find the global best-in-class talent for these organisations (often moving them from continent to continent) as well as hunting down the elusive locals who can compete in the global market. I specialise in tough assignments where talent is scarce and the competition is fierce.
Recent mandates include:
- Commercial Director – Asia
- MD – Europe
- Property & Business Devt Director – Europe
- Marketing Director – Europe
- Marketing Director – Asia
- Sales & Customer Director – Europe
- Head of Trading – Asia
- Managing Director - Middle East
- Property Director - Middle East
- General Manager - Middle East
- Director of Fashion - Asia
- Group CFO - Middle East
- COO - Australia
- CEO - Global
- Corporate Affairs Director - Asia
- Technical Director - EMEA
- Operations Director - CEE
- CFO talent pipeline - Global
I employ the following proven Executive Search methodologies to attract and retain the best and most relevant talent for my clients:
- Global elite talent acquisition
- Ex-pat talent acquisition
- Local talent acquisition
- MBA alumni & fast-track high potential talent acquisition
- Talent pipeline projects
26 contacts2008 - 2009Responsible for the P&L of the Consumer Search division for Charterhouse Search, a new business unit within the Charterhouse Partnership - the largest recruitment business in the Middle East since 2003. Set up the business from scratch, recruiting and developing a team of Executive Search consultants and Researchers specialising in Retail, FMCG, Consumer durables, Leisure, Hospitality, Entertainment, Automotive and Media across the entire GCC and Middle Eastern markets. Also grew a strong presence in Asia and CEE.
2006 - 2008High achieving Executive Search consultant (2007 - top ten, 2008 - no.1 biller with £140k in Q1 before I relocated to Dubai). Responsible for Sales & Marketing Search in Consumer practice initially before I developed a new business unit for the company making us International specialists. Grew Tesco account from <£50k p/a t >£500k p/a billings by expanding a previously UK and Finance centric account into their other 13 markets across Marketing, Commercial, Operations, Property and Strategy.
2003 - 2006Developed the permanent recruitment offering across Consumer clients for a previously freelance/interim business model. Responsible for part of the internal consultant training programme.
1998 - 20024 years working in the UK and Germany in both Agency and Clientside for General Motors, Virgin, Kimberly-Clark, Financial Times and Microsoft. Delivered global and local campaigns for these brands using Advertising, Promotions, E-commerce, Events, Trade marketing, POS, Brochures and Local marketing tools. Achievements include being the youngest Account management executive at McCann-Erickson at 22, running the global FT account at 24 and launching Windows XP for Microsoft at 25.