Talent. Reimagined.
We're not your recruiter. We're the team behind your best hires — sitting inside your business, moving on your timeline, before the brief is even written.
A talent growth partner, not a CV processor. Contego blends the speed of a headhunter with the depth of an internal team — plugged into your business, tuned to your pace, focused on finding, engaging and securing the people who make a difference.
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Tech-enabled sourcing and live talent intelligence that moves ahead of market shifts, not behind them.
Proactive by Design
We anticipate, not react — surfacing the right people before the market forces your hand.
Brand-First
Every candidate conversation is an extension of your employer brand. We protect it, and elevate it.
Embedded at the Core
Fully integrated into your team — aligned to your culture, your workflows, your cadence.
Proven sector
specialisms. We're not generalists.
Deep, sector-specific market mapping means we speak your candidates' language before we ever pick up the phone.
Retail & FMCG
From high-growth DTC brands to global retail groups — placing talent that drives digital performance and physical experience alike.
Luxury & Fashion
Deep knowledge of talent expectations across fashion, beauty and experience-led luxury, from retail leadership to global HQ.
Advertising, Media & Creative
Trusted by global networks, boutique agencies and production studios across performance, creative, strategy and ops.
Technology & SaaS
Scaling teams across product, engineering, GTM and customer success in hypergrowth B2B and B2C environments.
Consulting & Professional Services
Strategic support for firms in transformation — from internal consulting arms to external client-facing teams.
Financial & Legal Services
Placing product leaders, legal teams and GTM talent across traditional institutions and disruptive fintech platforms.
Scope of
services.
Built on exclusivity, expertise and a commitment to your outcomes — every engagement, tailored.
Executive Search
Precision-targeted leadership solutions. We engage the market continuously to secure top leaders before roles open, cutting time-to-hire without cutting corners on cultural fit.
→Interim & Flexible
Agile, on-demand talent for dynamic business needs — from seasoned interim executives to specialised project talent, deployed at pace.
→Managed Talent Solutions
End-to-end recruitment ownership — sourcing through onboarding — powered by real-time reporting and data-driven candidate fit.
→Talent Tracker & Intel
Real-time mapping of high-potential candidates and competitor movement, so you connect with exceptional talent before anyone else does.
→Consultancy
Bespoke, data-backed recommendations for workforce planning and cultural transformation — built for sustained, global success.
→Where passion
meets process.
Every placement moves through the same disciplined path — consistent enough to trust, flexible enough to fit your business.
Consultation
Workforce gaps, hiring targets and existing challenges, mapped out together.
Planning
Forecasting, resource allocation and budget alignment before we source a single name.
Sourcing
Active headhunting across our network, referrals and curated talent pools.
Screening
Structured assessment against skills, experience and cultural fit.
Interviewing
Coordination, candidate briefing and honest feedback, both ways.
Offer & Reporting
Negotiation, onboarding, and performance analytics against agreed KPIs.
Built on relationships,
not transactions.
The people too busy delivering results to advertise themselves — that's who we go and find.
We don't churn CVs against a job spec. We learn your business, source direct, and stay embedded through the process — which is why our placements stick, and our clients keep coming back.
We don't just fill roles. We help build futures.
A next-generation staffing and training platform with purpose at its core. We place pre-trained, early-career talent into meaningful internships — many at zero cost — helping businesses grow while making a tangible social impact.
Meet the
team.
Recruiters, not database managers — over a century of combined experience across our senior team.
Raj Mehta
First hire at Michael Page post-Lehmans. Built Contego from the ground up, delivering RPOs for Visa, Sainsbury's and Virgin.
Darren Edmonston
Commercially minded finance leader with 35+ years' experience. Contego's backbone since 2016.
Steve Charrot
Scaler of Global Teams. 14 years leading permanent and interim search across Tech, Sales and C-suite.
Wennie Daliva
12+ years across APAC — volume, corporate and IT hiring, with deep expertise across India, the Philippines and Australia.
Joei Ramos
8+ years of full-cycle recruitment across the APAC market, with organisations including Hogarth and KornFerry.
Christian Nazareth Diesta
8+ years delivering end-to-end talent solutions for global leaders including Kenvue and Cushman & Wakefield.
Fernando Cunanan
5+ years of full-cycle recruitment across IT, Healthcare and Customer Service in APAC.
Naomie Pham
Experience across L&D, culture and employee engagement, recruiting for hospitality and marketing roles across APAC.
Rushbh Shah
Talent acquisition leader with 17+ years in technology hiring across India, from SAP to Cybersecurity.
Saty Sandhu
First-Class textile designer turned educator, with Dior, Givenchy and Tate Britain behind her. Shapes Contego's next generation.
Building a culture
where everyone belongs.
We track it, publish it, and keep working at it.
"Rarely have I come across a more determined, energetic, customer-focused and outcome-oriented team, talent-spotting and recruitment." Phil King
Let's build the
next chapter.
We've got the tools, the team and the track record. Now let's go find the people who'll take your brand further.