Navis Consulting

What Navis Consulting does

Navis Consulting is a specialist maritime recruitment consultancy founded in 2010 and headquartered in Portsmouth, United Kingdom, operating as part of the STR Group, an international STEM-specialist recruitment organisation. The firm exclusively serves the Shipping, Seagoing, Marine Engineering and Superyacht sectors through a catalogue of seven core recruitment solutions — International Recruitment, Retained Search, Engaged Search, Exclusive Projects, Contingent Services, Market Insights and Managed Programmes — supplemented by a Statement of Work project-delivery service. Engaged Search carries a defined 20-working-day candidate-delivery SLA, distinguishing it from open-ended retained or contingent search timelines. Cross-border delivery is enabled by an in-house Legal & Compliance team, ISO 9001:2015 accreditation, Maritime Labour Convention 2006 conformance, and an E-2 treaty investor visa status granted on 30 June 2025 that allows the firm to sponsor UK professionals for 2-year renewable US assignments of up to five years.

The firm operates from three regional offices — Portsmouth (UK, headquarters), Troy, Michigan (US) and Zug (Switzerland) — and delivers revenue through a mix of retained, engaged, contingent, exclusive-project and managed-programme fee structures, with pricing tailored to each engagement and not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is consultant-led B2B sales supported by an event-driven presence at international boat shows and maritime conferences (Cannes, SIBS Southampton, Monaco Yacht Show, FLIBS Florida, ICE Amsterdam, METS Amsterdam), an active content-led blog, gated candidate eBooks, and a self-serve jobs portal. Customers include enterprise operators (Carnival Corporation & PLC, Wärtsilä, Williams Shipping, Breadbox Shipping Lines), mid-market firms (HamiltonJet UK, Maritime Yacht Services) and government/public-sector bodies (Cowes Harbour Commission, Shetland Islands Council). Headcount is in the 11–50 employee band, and the firm has no public funding rounds, no disclosed revenue, no AI/ML product capability, and no public capital structure beyond its STR Group parent affiliation.

Name

Navis Consulting

Legal name

Navis Consultancy

Website

https://navis-consulting.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Navis Consulting is a specialist maritime recruitment consultancy founded in 2010, headquartered in Portsmouth, UK, with offices in Troy, Michigan and Zug, Switzerland. It serves Shipping, Seagoing, Marine Engineering and Superyacht clients globally via retained, contingent, engaged, exclusive and managed recruitment solutions, operating within the STR Group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Maritime Recruitment Services

NAICS

Human Resources Consulting Services (541612), Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Operations, Supply Chain & Logistics Direct Hire (BPACAFAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Professional & Technical Direct Hire (IT, Engineering, Finance, Healthcare) (BPACAFAC), General Permanent Placement (Multi-Industry) (BPACAFAA), Remote & Global/Multilingual Direct Hire (BPACAFAO)

Keywords

• Maritime recruitment
• Shipping recruitment
• Marine engineering staffing
• Seagoing recruitment
• Superyacht recruitment

Headquarters

HQ city

Calera De Tango

HQ country

Chile

HQ region

Latin America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Retained Search fees: Confidential end-to-end retained executive search — clients pay an upfront retainer for senior/executive identification, attraction and engagement of talent within maritime and adjacent functions.
2. Contingent recruitment fees: End-to-end contingent recruitment service for contract and permanent placements; fees are success-based and paid on candidate placement for both contract and permanent roles.
3. Engaged Search fees: Service-level engagement with a commitment to deliver qualified candidates within 20 working days; hybrid between contingent and retained, with structured pricing tied to defined delivery timelines.
4. Managed Programmes / Exclusive Projects: Fully outsourced retained recruitment programmes and exclusive project recruitment for specific client hiring needs; company-wide approach to permanent, contract and temporary recruitment delivered as a managed service.
5. Statement of Work (project delivery): End-to-end delivery of STEM-related projects within agreed scope, timescale and budget; a project-based consulting revenue stream supplementing core recruitment.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Navis Consulting is a specialist maritime recruitment consultancy that supplies contract and permanent talent across the Shipping, Seagoing, Marine Engineering and Superyacht sectors. It delivers a portfolio of recruitment solutions — International Recruitment, Retained Search, Engaged Search, Exclusive Projects, Contingent Services, Market Insights and Managed Programmes — supplemented by Statement of Work project delivery. Services are sold to maritime employers rather than to individual consumers.

Product overview

Navis Consulting is a single unified specialist recruitment consultancy (not a software platform) for the maritime industry, structured as a core service catalogue of complementary recruitment solutions rather than a modular software product. Its offering consists of seven core recruitment solutions — International Recruitment/International Staffing, Retained Search, Engaged Search, Exclusive Projects, Contingent Services, Market Insights, and Managed Programmes — plus a Statement of Work service, all delivered across four sector specializations: Shipping, Seagoing, Marine Engineering, and Superyacht. The core recruitment solutions are tightly interlinked: International Staffing and Retained Search form the foundation for cross-border and senior hires, Engaged Search provides a fixed-timeframe commitment variant, Exclusive Projects offers bespoke dedicated programmes, Contingent Services supplements headcount on demand, Market Insights supplies the salary benchmarking and talent-availability intelligence used to inform the other solutions, and Managed Programmes wraps them into a company-wide permanent/contract/temporary recruitment function. Sector specializations (Shipping, Seagoing, Marine Engineering, Superyacht) are applied across this service portfolio rather than being standalone products. Layered on top, Navis provides the E-2 Visa Talent Mobilisation Programme (enabled by its U.S. E-2 visa status, allowing UK talent to be deployed to the U.S.) and produces free candidate eBooks such as 'How to Prepare for an Interview' and 'How to create a professional LinkedIn profile', plus research programmes like the International Technical Superintendents Employment Survey that feed its Market Insights service.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• International Recruitment / International Staffing Cross-country and in-country hiring solutions that identify and mobilise contract and permanent staff between countries and continents, supported by a dedicated Legal & Compliance team.
• Retained Search Confidential end-to-end retained solution to identify, attract and engage critical talent for maritime employers, structured as a bespoke shortlist and delivery programme.
• Engaged Search Commitment-based search engagement providing qualified candidates within 20 working days of receiving an instruction.
• Exclusive Projects Exclusive and dedicated recruitment programme bespoke to a client's specific hiring needs, sourcing best-fit candidates.
• Contingent Services End-to-end contract or permanent contingent recruitment service available on demand to supplement or replace headcount.
• Market Insights Market insights and knowledge sharing covering industry trends, salary benchmarking and applicant availability to support maritime hiring decisions.
• Managed Programmes Company-wide approach to permanent, contract and temporary recruitment delivered as a fully outsourced retained programme.
• Statement of Work End-to-end delivery of STEM-related projects within scope, timescale and budget, delivered as a bolt-on to a recruitment solution or on an ad-hoc basis.
• E-2 Visa Talent Mobilisation Programme Programme that leverages Navis Consulting's E-2 visa status to mobilise specialist UK professionals (Automation/PLC, CQV, Naval Architecture, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Project Engineering) to work in the United States on renewable 2-year visas up to 5 years.

Quantifiable outcome

• Engaged Search delivers qualified candidates within 20 working days of receiving an instruction
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered flagship / parent group, minor and flagship regulatory asset.

• STR Groupflagship / parent groupStrategic or Co-development PartnerNavis Consulting operates as part of the STR Group, an international STEM-specialist recruitment organisation. The group affiliation gives Navis access to associate brands delivering business support functions so clients can use Navis as a single point of contact for all maritime plus non-technical hiring. STR Group's E-2 visa investment in its US entity qualifies Navis to sponsor UK professionals under the treaty investor scheme.
• SailGPminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSailGP is listed in the Navis Consulting site navigation under About Us > Partnerships, indicating a brand or sponsorship alignment around the SailGP sailing championship series. Detail of the partnership scope is not specified on the pages provided.
• United States Government (E-2 Treaty Investor Visa)flagship regulatory assetOthersNavis officially obtained E-2 visa status from the United States government on 30 June 2025. As an E-2 treaty investor visa sponsor, Navis can mobilise UK-based specialists to the United States on 2-year renewable assignments of up to 5 years; spouses can work and children can attend school. The status is tied to STR Group's investment in its American entity and places Navis among a limited number of recruitment organisations holding E-2 status.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Faststream Recruitment: Specialist maritime, shipping and offshore recruitment firm covering permanent, contract and executive roles across seafaring, marine engineering and shore-based maritime functions. Directly comparable to Navis in vertical specialism, service mix (retained/contingent/exclusive) and target buyer (commercial shipping and offshore operators).
• Spinnaker Global: Maritime-focused recruitment provider offering permanent, contract and executive search across shipping, offshore and marine services. Closely comparable to Navis on maritime-only vertical, multi-geography footprint and retained/contingent service split.
• Marine People: UK-based maritime recruitment specialist serving shipping, offshore, marine engineering and superyacht sectors. Comparable to Navis on domain specialisation, UK-headquartered origin, and focus on both seafaring and shore-based maritime roles.
• Quay Crew: Specialist superyacht crew recruitment firm placing captains, officers, engineers and interior crew globally. Directly comparable to Navis on superyacht vertical overlap, although Quay Crew is superyacht-only versus Navis's broader maritime scope.
• YPI Crew: Yachting People International (YPI) Crew division providing superyacht crew placement, training and management. Comparable to Navis on the superyacht sector overlap and on placing senior yacht crew, with a similarly international client base.
• Hill Robinson: Yacht management and crew recruitment firm serving superyacht owners, captains and management companies. Comparable to Navis on superyacht crew placement, although Hill Robinson combines crew recruitment with full yacht management services.

Emerging players

• People in Maritime: Smaller specialist maritime recruitment provider focused on shipping and offshore roles. Comparable to Navis on maritime-only positioning but smaller scale and narrower service mix.
• Tiger Resources: Offshore and energy-focused recruitment firm with maritime overlap, supplying personnel to offshore vessel operators and adjacent sectors. Comparable to Navis on seagoing/offshore vertical overlap, though with stronger oil & gas exposure.

Broad incumbents

• Phaidon International: Global specialist recruitment firm placing professionals across energy, infrastructure, life sciences and maritime. Comparable to Navis as a specialist-adjacent recruiter competing for the same maritime technical talent pools, but at significantly larger scale across multiple industries.
• K2 Partnering Solutions: International STEM and technology recruitment consultancy with cross-border mobilisation capability. Comparable to Navis on international staffing and STEM vertical recruitment, though with a broader portfolio spanning IT, life sciences and engineering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/NavisConsulting
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/navis-consulting-specialist-recruitment
• Instagraminstagram.com/navis_recruitment
• Xx.com/NavisConsulting

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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