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Limivex

Marketing for RPO Providers

A fractional CMO for your RPO firm, with the team to deliver. Senior marketing leadership owns the plan, and a lean expert team ships the brand, content, LinkedIn, email, web and SEO that gets you onto the panel and through procurement.

Daniel AntonowiczDavid EalesMike MeyrickRichard HarrisChris Dunham

Trusted by Recruitment Agencies Across the UK

RPO Leaders Tell Us

The Pipeline RPO Firms Actually Want

Most RPO firms that lose a mandate had the right service to win it. They lose because the buying committee never hears one clear story, so the firm is gone before the shortlist call. We hear the same brief from mid-market and enterprise RPO providers.

  • Pipeline that survives procurement.

    An RPO deal closes on a signed master services agreement. Your marketing has to carry the story past the head of talent to operations and procurement, right up to the signature. We build it to hold the whole way.

  • Named before the brief lands.

    Most mandates are won inside an approved supplier list. The work is getting your firm named while the RFP is still being drafted. Leave it until the brief lands and you are already behind.

  • Authority that holds through a six-month evaluation.

    Buyers run four or five RPO providers side by side and weigh you on content, case work and references all at once. Patchy marketing knocks you out early. Consistent marketing keeps you in the room.

The RPO Buying Committee

The People Your Marketing Has to Reach

An RPO mandate goes through a buying committee, where each person carries their own worry and their own preferred channel, and your marketing has to land with all of them. For a mid-market firm that is usually three or four roles. At enterprise it can be six.

Owns the talent agenda

Chief HR Officer

Wants a partner who lifts the strategic talent story above headcount fill.

Reach Them Through

LinkedIn thought leadership, board ready content, sector benchmarks.

Day to day RPO sponsor

Head of Talent Acquisition

Wants proof you slot into their tech stack and hit their hiring SLAs and reporting cadence.

Reach Them Through

Service pages, integration content, candid case studies on delivery.

Owns the commercial process

Procurement and Vendor Management

Wants documented governance and security, solid references, and a pricing model they can put in front of finance.

Reach Them Through

RFP response support, security pages, supplier credentials pack.

Sponsors transformation

Chief Operating Officer

Wants hiring outcomes tied to business performance, backed by the numbers.

Reach Them Through

Long form case studies, ROI explainer content, executive newsletters.

Signs the multi year contract

Chief Financial Officer

Wants margin certainty, a lower cost to hire, and a monthly run rate they can predict.

Reach Them Through

Transparent pricing, commercial whitepapers, finance led case work.

Owns the rollout

Group HR Director

Wants regional coverage, multi market compliance and a candidate experience that stays consistent.

Reach Them Through

Regional pages, employer brand assets, multi country case studies.

The RPO Programme

What We Run for RPO Providers

  1. Recruitment SEORank for RPO buying searches

    Recruitment process outsourcing SEO built around the commercial terms buyers actually type: RPO providers, talent solutions, managed recruitment services. Ranked service pages and site architecture designed to turn that traffic into enquiries.

  2. Content MarketingAuthority across the committee

    Long form thought leadership, hiring market reports and procurement ready whitepapers. The content that puts your firm on the panel while the RFP is still being written.

  3. LinkedIn MarketingVisibility with senior talent leaders

    Profile work for your MD and practice leads, a weekly content programme, and researched outreach to the talent and procurement leaders at the accounts you want.

  4. Email MarketingResearched outreach into the enterprise

    Account based sequences calibrated to senior talent leaders, with deliverability and copy that respects who is reading. Paced for a considered RPO buying cycle.

  5. PPC AdvertisingReach buyers actively scoping providers

    Google and LinkedIn campaigns aimed at in market RPO buyers and named accounts. Landing pages built to earn the RFP, with a conversion path that does real work after the click.

  6. Brand TransformationA brand that earns enterprise trust

    Positioning, identity and a visual system for RPO firms whose delivery has outgrown the website that represents it. A first impression that holds up under a procurement review.

  7. Social Media MarketingCredibility across the buying committee

    Social media that builds enterprise credibility: thought leadership for talent leaders and procurement, plus employer-brand content that reaches the candidate pools behind large hiring programmes.

RPO Only Assets

Two Assets We Build Only for RPO Providers

On top of the core programme, RPO firms get two formats we have refined inside talent solutions work: a procurement ready tender pack and a case programme built for the committee.

Printed reports and analytics on a meeting table
RFP and ITT Response Support

Tender Documents That Survive Procurement

We work alongside your bid team to turn a standard RPO response into a document that earns the shortlist. Positioning, the written narrative, the supporting case studies, and a visual system the reviewers actually sign off on.

  • A written response narrative aligned to your positioning
  • Case study and reference packs sorted by sector and region
  • A visual system that holds across the security and commercial annexes
An enterprise team reviewing programme outcomes together
Case Programme

Long Form Case Studies Built for the Buying Committee

A documented engagement story for each account, written by senior editors and signed off by your client. The proof asset that lifts your firm above generic talent solutions providers when a procurement team is weighing several RPO partners at once.

  • Full narrative with measurable hiring and commercial outcomes
  • Quotes and named references where your client permits
  • Built once, then used across sales, the website, social and outbound

Proof at Scale

Programmes Built for Committee Led Buyers

Longer cycles, several stakeholders and a procurement gate at the end. These programmes were built for exactly that kind of sale.

QICO website rebrand
Case study, QICO

IT and Workspace Solutions

Leading the marketing for a global IT and workspace provider

We stepped in as QICO's fractional CMO and the team behind it: a 50-page strategy, a new brand, a website built to convert, and the demand programme to run it. Organic traffic rose by 2,600% in the first three months, and lead conversions by 40%.

  • 2,600%Organic search traffic growth in the first three months after launch
  • 40%More lead conversions from the demand programme
Read the QICO case study
SmartChoice International website and content programme
Case study, SmartChoice International

IT and Technology Recruitment

Senior marketing leadership for a London IT recruitment firm placing across multiple markets

SmartChoice had the desks, the delivery hubs and a strong founder story, but no one owning marketing. Limivex came in as the fractional CMO with the team to deliver: we set the plan and ran the work, from a rebuilt SEO foundation and per-market landing pages to a content programme that publishes and distributes for the IT staffing niche.

  • Months 1 to 3A full technical rebuild and an SEO foundation across the whole site, taking it from no clear search presence to a crawlable, optimised base
  • Per-market pages liveA dedicated, locally written page for each market SmartChoice operates in, in place of one generic London-centric site
Read the SmartChoice International case study
Quay Group members portal and brand system
Case study, Quay Group

UHNW recruitment

From a single members portal to leading the whole marketing function for a UHNW recruitment firm

An exclusive members portal launched in 2025 opened the partnership. Quay then handed us the marketing function to lead. Today we own the strategy and run the work: an ongoing content programme, a weekly LinkedIn cadence across all four divisions, and a ground-up rebuild of the main Quay Group website, now in build.

  • One functionFrom a single project to leading Quay's whole marketing, CMO and team
  • 4 divisions, 1 programmeCrew, Maritime, Estates and Family Office, one strategy, one weekly cadence
Read the Quay Group case study

What Clients Say

Trusted by Recruitment Founders

  • 26+

    Finalised Projects

  • 98%

    Client satisfaction rate

  • 18

    Brand Transformations

Mike Meyrick, Chief Executive Officer, Meyrick Consulting

01 / 05

Limivex now controls our entire sales and marketing activity across Europe and the US, and I'm having calls every week with my ideal clients.
Mike Meyrick

Mike Meyrick

Chief Executive Officer, Meyrick Consulting

RPO Marketing FAQ

What RPO Leaders Ask Us

Daniel Hill, Founder of Limivex

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