Business and IT transformation heavy-weight, Jackie Edwards, has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Norrie Johnston Recruitment (NJR), the interim management & executive search specialist.
Jackie Edwards has led major change programmes within blue-chip financial services brands and high profile regulatory bodies including Barclays Group companies, Cap Gemini Ernst Young and the Financial Services Authority (now the FCA). She outlines how her experience will enhance NJR’s offering:
“During my 25 years as an interim and a permanent executive I’ve been there and done it. I’ve worked at the coal-face of major transformation programmes, I’ve seen the issues facing leaders in organisations undergoing major change and I know the sort of people you need to build a high performing team. That’s the kind of insight and experience companies need from their recruitment and executive search firms. They need someone they can talk to – who really ‘gets’ the challenge they face.”
Jackie Edwards’ credentials within the business transformation world are impressive. During a two year assignment at the Financial Services Authority Jackie led the delivery of a major business change programme for its IS Division. Her interim work at Barclays included acting as Programme Director for the transformation of Group Collections and Recoveries across the Barclays Group. As divisional director of Cap Gemini Ernst Young, Jackie was Programme Director for Boots the Chemist, leading a major transformation for the Pharmacy business; a top to bottom reshaping of the customer interaction, core processes and IT Infrastructure for 1400 outlets. Most recently Jackie has led the shaping of major AML/STF, Section 166 and Anti-Bribery and corruption programmes as Interim Director/Programme Director.
Agency founder, Norrie Johnston says: "We’re absolutely thrilled to have Jackie on the board. She has a tremendous market reputation and her experience will be phenomenally powerful for our business and most importantly our clients.”
Jackie Edwards adds: “I obviously did a lot of due diligence before accepting the non-Exec role at NJR. Everything I saw and everyone I met, I liked. The NJR approach to recruitment is fresh and unique, in my experience. The firm’s values and the combination of experienced recruiters and leadership with real-world, corporate experience is just so refreshing to see and great to be a part of.”
Norrie Johnston Recruitment is focused on filling senior interim and permanent £70,000 to £250,000 roles, using a mix of technology plus, importantly, traditional search, employing best of breed recruiters and leadership with real-world corporate experience. NJR’s track record shows that this combination enables the agency to provide hand-picked short lists of perfectly matched senior interim candidates within to 2-4 days while for permanent roles the timeframe from brief to short list will be 2-4 weeks.