The strategic intelligence that informs your most critical leadership decisions before you commit to a search.
Intelligence That Shapes Better Leadership Decisions
Before the search begins, the right intelligence changes everything. Our bespoke salary benchmarking and talent mapping studies give you the strategic knowledge to define roles with precision, set competitive packages, and understand the market before you commit.
Our intelligence studies are particularly valuable for PE Operating Partners building a picture of leadership capability, talent availability, and compensation benchmarks across a portfolio sector, including mapping the consulting alumni talent pool ahead of a search, a value creation review, or a board conversation.
By combining quantitative data analysis with in-depth interviews, we help founders, boards, and leadership teams shape roles, refine their talent acquisition strategy, and make confident decisions.
INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS
Insight-led. Bespoke by design. From salary benchmarking to talent pipelining, every solution is shaped around your business.
Talent Mapping
Pinpoint the individuals who meet your specific needs. We identify and profile candidates based on skills, experience, and cultural alignment, offering a clear picture of who fits your organisation. This service is designed to find the right specialists, from Chief AI Officers to transformation leaders, to drive your business forward. We collaborate with you to define the data points, ensuring the mapping aligns with your hiring objectives.
Market Mapping
Gain a comprehensive overview of the talent landscape in your sector. We identify key industry players, emerging trends, and competitor movements to inform your growth strategy. Whether you are entering new markets or building leadership capability in a new sector, our detailed insights highlight where opportunities and gaps exist. We agree on how many data points you'd like us to consider, ensuring the results are tailored to your strategic goals.
Talent Pipelining
Establish a continuous pipeline of qualified candidates ready to step into key roles as your business grows. We proactively engage with top talent, reducing time to hire and ensuring you’re prepared for future opportunities. Particularly valuable for PE-backed businesses and high-growth organisations building leadership bench strength ahead of a critical phase.
Salary Benchmarking
Attract and retain exceptional talent with competitive, data-driven compensation packages. We analyse up-to-date market data to ensure your offers are positioned correctly for senior and C-suite appointments, giving you the clarity to move decisively when the right candidate is in front of you. Together, we define the scope and depth of the analysis to reflect the seniority and complexity of the role.
The Process
Report & Strategic Recommendations
You'll receive a detailed report with our findings, including competitor insight, market trends, and talent pools dynamics. Together, we'll discuss how to leverage these insights to shape your talent acquisition strategy, optimise your positioning the market, and inform future hiring plans.
We'll interpret the data, identifying key trends. Beyond numbers, our goal is to uncover the story the market is telling - where talent is shifting, what motivates decisions, and what impacts your hiring strategy. We'll connect the dots, transforming data into actionable intelligence you can use to build teams.
We'll meet to define your goals, agree on research topics, methods and timelines. Whether you're building a leadership team in a new city or exploring talent trends, we'll outline exactly what we'll map: salaries, notice periods, brand perception, and the size of relevant talent pools.
Utilising a range of data collection tools including secondary data, quant surveys, in-depth interviews, competitor hiring trends, observational checklists, and recruitment tech, field notes, conversational AI, case studies and our global network, we will map the market, ensuring a complete talent landscape view.
We’ll interpret the data, identifying key trends and patterns. Our focus is on transforming numbers into actionable insights, clearly telling the story behind the data.
Compensation Benchmarking
Design compelling compensation packages through detailed salary analysis, ensuring you attract and retain top talent effectively.
Focused Talent Sourcing
Pinpoint and engage senior leaders tailored to your specific brief, sector, and seniority requirements, streamlining the search process from first approach to final appointment.
Insight-Led Hiring
Harness data-driven insights to sharpen your leadership hiring strategy, optimise resource use, and improve overall hiring outcomes.
Leadership Brand
Enhance your employer brand by showcasing your company as a desirable workplace, differentiating from competitors and appealing to exceptional candidates.
Leadership Bench Strength
Build the senior leadership capability your organisation needs to sustain growth, navigate transformation, and deliver on its strategic ambitions.
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