Delivering Ultra's talent for your project win

Our understanding of your requirements

In anticipation of an upcoming project win, Ultra has a requirement for 25 hires over the course of the next 6 months, including:

11 Manufacturing roles

12% of which can be remote/outside Tring

14 Engineering roles

30% of which can be remote/outside Tring

8 'other' roles

6 to be situated in Canada and 2 in Tring

To ensure preparedness for project go-live, it’s essential your partner begins immediately prioritising a portion of your roles – 2 Software Engineers and 1 Test & Support Engineer – ahead of your potential project win.

Matchtech's partnership campaign service

We are motivated to partner with Ultra exclusively to deliver your requirements, beginning immediately by talent pooling and proactively searching for the 2 Software Engineer and Test & Support Engineer roles.

Matchtech’s exclusive partnership comprises the following elements:

Designated, expert Account team

Full project management approach and tailor-made project timeline

Candidate attraction methods, based on your recruitment needs

Fit-to-purpose commercial proposal

We have provided more detail on these elements throughout this proposal.

1. Designated, expert Account team

Kayla Hopwood | Account Manager

Kayla Hopwood will spearhead our Account team as part of our service for Ultra, utilising her deep knowledge of Ultra from seven years working with you. Kayla will be supported by a team of two to three Delivery Consultants, which will be scalable based on the demand and timescales. Kayla’s bio is below: Kayla has over seven years' recruitment experience and already manages the permanent delivery and support for Ultra in the UK. Her knowledge and deep expertise cover the permanent recruitment of Electronics Hardware, Software and Systems across Engineering and Technology sectors. Kayla has supported the Ultra account from her very first year at Matchtech as a Delivery Consultant through to account management today. Kayla is passionate about Ultra and proud to be working with all the teams across the UK.

Aidan Wood | Senior Sponsor

Aidan, our Head of Defence & Security would be ultimately responsible for the success of this project and will be kept up to date by Kayla on the overall progress. His bio is below: Aidan has almost 15 years’ experience leading and developing a successful department of STEM recruiters for the Defence & Security sector. As the Head of Defence & Security at Matchtech, he is responsible for the complete client portfolio, candidate attraction strategy, customer experience and growth. As a Senior Sponsor, his role will be to provide overarching support and be a point of escalation should the need arise. Throughout his successful career, he has personally supported the recruitment for Ultra for over 10 years.

Our experienced Defence & Security team are wholly UK-based. To compliment their service, we have a team of recruiters based in Toronto, Canada, who we can collaborate with to provide geographical knowledge, local candidates and expertise within the Canadian recruitment market.

2. Full project management approach and tailor-made project timeline

We will hold a project kick off meeting with key Ultra stakeholders to discuss the specifics of the project, following on from which, we will take on full accountability for ensuring successful delivery. Kayla will draw upon available resources to deliver on-time, to-spec and to your satisfaction. Her responsibilities will include: ​

  • Acting as your main point of contact for the project​
  • Running project meetings (project initiation, progress updates and performance reviews)​
  • Building, coordinating and overseeing our Delivery Consultants’ delivery
  • Ensuring all SLAs and project milestones are met​
  • Identifying and removing any blockers that Ultra or the project team are experiencing​
  • Managing data analytics/MI and producing reports for Ultra​ on current progress and success
  • Closing-out the project (upon satisfaction from Ultra) and recommending next steps
  • Provision of monthly market insight to inform bespoke candidate attraction and talent pooling strategy per role

3. Candidate attraction methods, based on your recruitment needs

The core of our service is the attraction, engagement and selection of hard-to-find talent. We will create bespoke talent attraction strategies for each role, encompassing the following channels:

  • Database of 1.2M pre-screened Technologists & Engineers
  • Social media following of over 65,000 to promote our clients' roles
  • Loyal networks, from over 38 years in Defence & Security recruitment, highlighted by 40% of our contractor placements being made with candidates we have placed several times before
  • Job boards, including mainstream sites such as Indeed, CV Library and Jobsite, as well as more diverse, specialist sites to have full market reach
  • SourceBreaker, a market-leading AI-driven platform which enables powerful searching across a huge range of online sources such as social media and CV databases
  • Enduring business partnerships; we also regularly attend industry events and form long-lasting partnerships, giving us access to candidate communities that would otherwise be unavailable. This includes partnering with organisations that are dedicated to promoting equal opportunities within the STEM industry.
  • Through in-house employer branding and our candidate attraction experts, we can provide space on our website and create a 'featured recruiter page' (to the right), alongside dual-branded materials, if of interest.

4. Fit-to-purpose commercial proposal

For example: A placement made for one of the expedited roles with a candidate starting salary of £60,000. £5,000 would have been invoiced as a retainer and the full fee calculates to be £10,800, so the final invoice upon placement would be £5,800.