About this role
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.
đź’Ľ 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
đź§ 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. 🚢🌍