Researcher

Delve Search - Global Search Consultants; Reading; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Bank holidays

Professional development

Wellbeing benefits

Team events

Automotive perks

Job summary

Delve Search - Global Search Consultants is recruiting an Automotive Researcher for a specialist luxury automotive business in Berkshire. The role focuses on digging into the history, provenance and specification of significant historic vehicles, ensuring accurate, complete and well-documented records.

You will work within a team that loves cars and serves an international client base from enthusiasts to major private collectors, building vehicle files and supporting projects including

Qualifications

• Strong administration and research skills; able to handle valuable and confidential information professionally.

Responsibilities

• Research the history, provenance, ownership and original specification of significant historic cars.
• Investigate records and documents, identify gaps and determine what's missing.
• Build and maintain detailed vehicle files covering identity, registration, valuation and records.
• Collaborate with clients, specialists and internal teams to gather information and ensure accuracy.
• Support wider client projects, including movements, purchases, sales, restorations and international logistics.

Skills

Research skills

Attention to detail

Administration

Discretion

Job description

Automotive Researcher – Historic & Collector Cars

I’m recruiting an Automotive Researcher for a specialist luxury automotive business in Berkshire.

This isn't your typical research or administration job.

You’ll spend your time digging into the history, provenance and specification of important historic vehicles, piecing together information and making sure the story behind each car is accurate, complete and properly documented.

You’ll be surrounded by people who genuinely love cars and work with an international client base ranging from passionate enthusiasts to some of the world's most significant private collectors.

What will you actually be doing?

• Research the history, provenance, ownership and original specification of significant historic cars.


• Investigate records and documentation, spotting gaps or inconsistencies and working out what's missing.


• Build and maintain detailed vehicle files covering identity, registration, valuation and supporting records.


• Work with clients, specialists and internal teams to gather information and ensure records are accurate.


• Support wider client projects, including vehicle movements, purchases, sales, restorations and international logistics.

Who are we looking for?

You don't necessarily need to have spent your career doing exactly this.

You do need to be naturally curious, incredibly thorough and genuinely interested in historic and collector cars.

Perhaps you've worked in automotive, research, archives, auction houses, museums, luxury goods, logistics or another detail-heavy environment. Or perhaps your professional background is less obvious, but you've spent years learning about historic cars in your own time.

You’ll need strong administration and research skills, excellent attention to detail and the ability to handle valuable and confidential information professionally.

Most importantly, you’ll be the sort of person who sees a gap in a car’s history and really wants to find the answer.

Why Join?

You’ll be joining a small, down-to-earth team with a genuine passion for the automotive world. The culture is informal and human, but standards are high – particularly when it comes to expertise, quality, discretion and looking after clients properly.

There are also 25 days' holiday + bank holidays, professional development opportunities, wellbeing benefits, team events and some rather unusual automotive perks.

If historic cars are something you genuinely care about, and the idea of being paid to research their stories sounds considerably more interesting than your average Monday morning, I’d love to hear from you.