Vermelo RPO wins Best RPO award at Global Recruiter Awards 2025
Vermelo RPO has been named Best Recruitment Process Outsourcing Business at the Global Recruiter Awards 2025 in London (19th November 2025).
It's a competitive category, and we're proud to have stood alongside the other shortlisted RPO businesses and to have our approach recognised on a respected industry stage.
Why the judges chose Vermelo
The Global Recruiter judges highlighted Vermelo for a deeply integrated, strategic and results-driven RPO model, and singled out four things:
Client immersion: embedding ourselves in each client's culture, values and ways of working
Proactive communication: transparent, responsive and collaborative engagement throughout the talent journey
Continuous improvement: using data, feedback and insight to keep refining performance
True partnership: operating as an extension of our clients' internal teams, not another supplier
That's the case we've always made for RPO: it should be built on partnership, accountability and measurable outcomes, not on filling roles.
The team behind it
Every result we deliver for clients comes from the people who do the work: the on-site talent partners, and the central operations and support teams behind them. This award is theirs.
Anthony Butler, MD at Vermelo, said:
"This award is an incredible achievement and is a huge testament to our people and our clients. We've always believed that RPO should feel like an extension of the client's own team; strategic, transparent and relentlessly focused on outcomes. Being recognised by The Global Recruiter and their judges for that approach is incredibly rewarding. To the Vermelo team: your energy, resilience and ownership of our clients' challenges is what got us here. You've turned complex hiring problems into long-term partnerships and real outcomes. Thank you for the graft, the ideas, the late nights and the standards you hold yourselves to. You're the reason for our success. We also extend a big thank you to The Global Recruiter for hosting such a fantastic event and to the panel of judges for their time and consideration. Congratulations to all of the winners, highly commended and finalists across every category. The standard of entries this year shows just how vibrant, resilient and innovative the recruitment sector continues to be."
What it means for clients
An award is independent confirmation of the things clients already see: a partner embedded in the business and aligned to its culture and goals, end-to-end ownership of delivery from workforce planning through to onboarding, and clear KPIs across cost, time-to-hire, quality of hire and candidate and manager experience. The case studies show what that looks like in practice.
What's next
We'll use the recognition as a reason to keep raising the standard: in how we design and deliver RPO, in the people and technology behind it, and in the value clients get from it. Being named Best RPO Business is a milestone. The more interesting part is what we build from here.
If you're looking for an RPO partner that works as an extension of your business and owns delivery end to end, get in touch, call 01892 553360 or email info@vermelorpo.com.