New Associate Director set to help Vargo Recruitment expand service offering for clients

Finance recruitment specialist Tom Miller has joined leading Cardiff recruitment consultancy, Vargo Recruitment as Associate Director.

Tom brings a wealth of experience in finance recruitment, as well as having previously worked for GoCompare as its Head of Talent Acquisition where he built an internal recruitment function from scratch and was responsible for delivering the end-to-end recruitment strategy for the publicly traded company.

Tom will predominantly focus on recruiting for Executive and C-Suite positions, as well as other leadership and management positions. Tom will also take a leading role in developing the company’s strategy as it looks to provide clients with a more holistic approach to talent attraction, including a delivering a wider employer branding and recruitment strategy for their clients.

Vargo was founded in 2016 by Chris Chugg, a consultant with more than ten years experience recruiting across a range of sectors and business sizes, from steadfast FTSE 100 companies to burgeoning SMEs.  Welcoming Tom to the new role, Chris said Tom’s skill set would help the company add value to their specialist client sector:

“Tom is a highly experienced and focused recruiter who has built talented teams across a wide range of sectors. He excels at stakeholder management, be it with smaller businesses or household names, and has already proven himself to be hugely valuable to the company.

“We have some exciting plans for Vargo that will really set us apart as we continue to grow and diversify our service offering. Tom’s support, vision and leadership are vital to these plans as we look to deliver a modern, effective solution to the talent attraction problem. We firmly believe that our unique approach will help companies solve the skills challenges of the future.”

Tom said:

“I’m delighted to have joined the team at Vargo and to continue to support the company as it grows.

“There’s a lot in the pipeline for Vargo, and with Brexit and the widely reported skills shortage set to hit several sectors in the coming years, businesses will need something more than traditional recruitment methods if they want to differentiate from their competitors and attract the brightest talent. We aim to be known as the company that can solve these challenges, and with the fantastic team that Chris has built, I’m confident we can meet that target.”