Gattaca Plc
Delivery Team Leader
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Delivery Team Leader
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 in 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 completely 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 as follows:
- 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 to 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 in 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
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Who We’re Looking For
This is ideal for a Senior Consultant, Principal Consultant, or Team Leader with a background in contract recruitment and an ambition for more responsibility without transitioning 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 white-collar recruitment markets
- Natural leadership and influencing skills
- The ability to gain buy-in, inspire confidence, and lead from the front
- An ambition to build something of your own and make a genuine impact on team performance
- Enthusiasm for combining commercial success with leadership
- Excitement about shaping both a desk and a team
Most importantly, we’re looking for someone who wants to balance personal billing success with team leadership and is passionate about the opportunity to lead and grow within the company.
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
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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: Trust, Professionalism, Ambition, and Fun. Combined with industry-leading training, technology, and career development, we’ll provide the platform for you 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 telephone interviews, video interviews, and face-to-face meetings. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. These could include:
- Interview questions in advance
- Alternative formats
- Flexible scheduling
- A pre-interview office visit
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