Job Description

Delivery Team Leader – Defence Recruitment | Whiteley

Are you a successful contract recruiter looking for the next step in your career?

This is a rare opportunity to take ownership of a high-profile Defence contract desk while developing your leadership skills within one of the UK's largest and most established STEM recruiters.

Joining our Defence division, you'll lead delivery across a flagship account that supports hundreds of contractors nationwide and generates over £2.6m in annual revenue. Working within a competitive PSL environment, you'll be responsible for driving recruitment performance, building contractor relationships, and influencing a team to achieve outstanding results.

This role is perfect for someone who enjoys billing, thrives in a fast-paced contract environment, and wants leadership responsibility without stepping away from recruitment.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Delivery Team Leader, you'll operate as a billing manager, combining personal recruitment success with team leadership.

Your time will typically be split:

• 80% hands-on recruitment delivery

• 20% team leadership, coaching and performance guidance

You'll be:

• Owning and growing an established contract desk within our Defence business

• Delivering high-quality contract recruitment solutions into a major customer account

• Leading, mentoring and influencing a team of 6 delivery consultants

• Building credibility through your own billing performance and market expertise

• Supporting team members with candidate attraction, qualification and delivery strategies

• Driving contractor engagement within a highly competitive market

• Collaborating with senior leadership to maximise account performance and growth opportunities

• Creating a high-performance culture where individuals are motivated, accountable and successful

Who We're Looking For

This is ideal for a Senior Consultant, Principal Consultant or Team Leader from a contract recruitment background who wants more responsibility without moving into a purely managerial role.

You'll bring:

• A minimum of 5 years' recruitment experience

• A proven background in contract recruitment

• Strong and consistent billing performance

• Experience within engineering, technical or other white-collar recruitment markets

• Natural leadership and influencing skills

• The ability to gain buy-in, inspire confidence and lead from the front

• Ambition to build something of your own and make a genuine impact on team performance

Most importantly, we're looking for someone who wants to combine commercial success with leadership and is excited by the opportunity to shape both a desk and a team.

Why Join Us?

✅ Take ownership of a warm, established contract desk

✅ Lead a team from day one while continuing to bill

✅ Clear progression pathway into Delivery Manager leadership

✅ Work on one of the UK's most significant Defence recruitment accounts

✅ Be supported by experienced and invested leaders

✅ Earn through both personal performance and team success

✅ Join a business with long-term account stability and growth potential

About Matchtech

For over 40 years, Matchtech, part of Gattaca plc, has connected exceptional talent with some of the world's leading engineering, technology and defence organisations.

As a market-leading STEM recruiter, we're trusted to solve complex talent challenges across critical industries, helping organisations innovate and grow.

Everything we do is guided by our values of Trust, Professionalism, Ambition and Fun Combined with industry-leading training, technology and career development, we'll give you the platform to build a successful and rewarding recruitment career.

Our Recruitment Process

We're committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience for everyone.

Our process may include a combination of telephone, video and face-to-face interviews.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. Whether that's interview questions in advance, alternative formats, flexible scheduling or a pre-interview office visit, we're happy to accommodate what helps you perform at your best.

Ambitious, driven, and ready to make your mark?

Apply now and let’s talk.