Delivery Consultant

Delivery Consultant - International Defence
📍 Matchtech | Defence & Security

This is not your average delivery role.

This is a chance to join a brand‑new International Defence desk at the very start of its journey – with huge backing, warm relationships, and a market that’s absolutely flying.

If you’re candidate‑led, quality‑focused, and want to work on roles that actually matter on a global scale… keep reading.

🚀 Why this opportunity?

You’ll be joining Matchtech’s growing International Defence team, supporting a market experiencing unprecedented global demand.

A few reasons this desk is exciting:

• Join a NEW and growing International Defence desk from day one

• Work in a sector seeing record‑level global investment

• The Naval shipbuilding industry is at its biggest since World War II

• Defence recruitment is booming due to:

  • Global security priorities

  • Government investment

  • Rapid tech advancement

• A very warm delivery desk – candidate‑focused

• Opportunity to work international markets (Canada & Australia)

• High fee values and meaningful placements

• Partner closely with a highly experienced recruiter who brings in and manages the clients
  (yes… the ideal desk really does exist)

We’re looking for someone who:

• Is organised, personable, and confident

• Can build credibility and handle challenging client conversations

• Has a strong work ethic and genuine drive to get results

• Wants to learn, grow, and be part of a collaborative team

• Fits the culture – professional, ambitious, and human

👉 Experience is ideal, but not essential.

• Individuals with no recruitment experience, as long as you have the right attitude and can pick up the industry.

💼 The Role

This is a true account management role built around quality, not volume.

You’ll focus on:

• Strategic headhunting and deep candidate engagement

• Working with passive candidates in niche Defence markets

• Market mapping and targeted outreach

• Intelligent qualification – not high‑volume CV sending

• Building trusted, advisory‑led relationships

• Running candidate‑led BD alongside the consultant

You’ll be supported, trusted, and given space to do recruitment properly.

🌍 Market exposure

• International Defence projects

• Global Naval Shipbuilding

• Cutting‑edge engineering environments

• Exposure to AI, cyber, advanced engineering and international programmes

🛠️ Tools & support

You’ll have access to industry‑leading recruitment tech, including:

• LinkedIn Recruiter

• Lusha

• Matchtech’s extensive Defence database

• Market intelligence, research, and data support

🧠 What Matchtech offers

• A high‑performing team with a genuinely positive culture

• Mentoring from some of the most experienced Defence recruiters in the industry

• Flexible working options for balance and wellbeing

• Clear, transparent commission structure

• Regular incentives, socials, and a competitive benefits package

• Strong progression opportunities across Matchtech’s technical divisions

• Backed by 40 years of STEM recruitment expertise under the Gattaca Group

We invest in our people. Simple as that.

🤝 Sound like your kind of role?

If you’re curious, open to a chat, or quietly considering your next move…

Let’s talk Defence. Let’s talk international. Let’s talk what your next chapter could look like. 🚢🌍