Totally customisable & bespoke solutions for your business needs to map your key competitors and outpace them. Make informed business decisions with accurate benchmarking insights
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We start by collaborating closely with you to identify up to four competitor companies that are most relevant to your talent market. Once finalized, we gather and analyze each organization’s structure in detail, capturing names and designations across key leadership and senior management layers including N level (CEO/MD), N minus 1, and N minus 2 positions.
This deep organizational mapping gives you more than just a list of titles. It reveals how leadership is distributed, how decision making flows, and how authority is layered across the top ranks. You gain insights into reporting hierarchies, functional coverage, and structural design that can directly inform your own leadership planning. This intelligence becomes the foundation for accurate benchmarking, targeted talent tracking, and strategic competitor analysis. By knowing exactly how your competitors are built at the top, you can anticipate their moves and position your own organization for market advantage.
Our designation benchmarking process uncovers exactly how your competitors organize their role hierarchies and compensation bands across different levels. We examine their grades, titles, and functional bands, then align this information with your internal structure to highlight similarities, differences, and opportunities for improvement. This helps you maintain designation parity in hiring, ensuring that your job architecture is competitive and attractive to high value talent.
This benchmarking provides market context to explain why certain roles exist, how they are positioned, and what level of responsibility they carry. By knowing how competitors position their talent within their bands, you can fine tune your own titles, adjust your bands to meet market expectations, and avoid the risk of role misalignment that could cause candidate confusion or internal inequity. The result is a clear, market aligned role structure that strengthens your talent acquisition and retention strategy.
Our compensation benchmarking covers all designation and band levels for each of your selected four comparator companies, providing a name wise breakdown for unmatched precision. Unlike static industry reports, our approach sources live compensation data directly from professionals currently in those roles, ensuring that you have real time, on the ground market insights.
The data includes fixed pay, variable components, allowances, and total compensation packages, allowing you to compare exact structures across companies. This empowers you to identify where your pay is highly competitive, where adjustments may be needed, and how to design packages that attract and retain top performers. With this insight, you can proactively adjust your compensation strategy, ensuring you stay ahead of evolving market trends while maintaining internal fairness and budget control. This is not just benchmarking. It is a strategic pay positioning tool that helps you remain competitive in the talent market.
We create detailed yet concise profiles of up to five leaders from each comparator organization, giving you visibility into who is steering your competitors’ strategies and how they built their careers. Each profile includes their career background, leadership journey, prior company affiliations, and functional expertise, helping you understand the leadership mix your competitors value.
These leadership insights go beyond biographies. They reveal talent movement trends, showing how executives transition between industries, roles, and organizations. This allows you to spot potential leadership hires, identify gaps in your own succession pipeline, and understand which organizations are the main sources for your competitors’ senior talent. Whether for succession planning, targeted hiring, or competitive positioning, these profiles provide actionable intelligence on top tier talent across your market, helping you make smarter leadership and recruitment decisions.
We provide end-to-end market analysis that enables you to see exactly how your pay structures compare to the competition and identify where you can gain an advantage. Our process begins with deep competitor profiling, conducting a detailed analysis of up to four key comparators you identify, assessing factors such as revenue, workforce size, industry segment, geographic presence, product portfolio, and market position. We then carry out precision role mapping to align comparator roles with your internal bands and titles, right down to N minus 3 levels, ensuring a true like-for-like comparison
To gather reliable data, we use an executive search-grade collection process, engaging directly with actual incumbents through confidential one-on-one interviews to obtain verified details on fixed pay, allowances, benefits, and perks. All data is then cross-verified against 14+ years of proprietary market intelligence to ensure accuracy and eliminate discrepancies. The result is market intelligence that is current, precise, and actionable empowering data-backed pay structure decisions at the highest level.
Accurate benchmarking begins with the right comparator set. We start by carefully selecting and profiling up to four organizations that you identify as your direct talent competitors. These companies are chosen not only based on industry but also on revenue scale, geographic presence, business model, and overlap in talent pools. Once the comparator set is finalized, we conduct a comprehensive designation and band mapping exercise to align their roles with your internal structure.
This alignment is done across multiple organizational layers, even down to N minus 3 levels, ensuring complete role equivalency. By standardizing the mapping, we eliminate distortions caused by inconsistent job titles or hierarchies, creating a true apples-to-apples comparison. This structured mapping process becomes the foundation for accurate, relevant, and actionable compensation benchmarking.
Our benchmarking provides a clear, quantitative view of how your organization compares to the market across all talent tiers. We break down compensation into its core components, including Total Fixed Cash (base pay plus cash allowances and retirals), Total Fixed Pay (TFC plus housing and conveyance), Total Variable Pay (all non-monthly payments such as annual incentives), and Cost to Company (Total Fixed Pay plus Total Variable Pay, excluding ESOPs/RSUs for comparability).
We also examine performance-linked bonuses and retention or deferred bonuses to understand how competitors incentivize and retain talent. This analysis enables you to pinpoint pay gaps that affect both attraction and retention, identify high-demand roles where competition is most intense, and align your pay bands with real-time market expectations while maintaining internal equity.
We help you transform market data into a powerful retention tool by ensuring your pay structures are designed to promote loyalty and long-term performance. This includes leadership-level benchmarking for critical roles such as CEO, COO, CFO, and other key functional heads, as well as attrition risk mapping to identify positions most vulnerable to competitive poaching.
Our retention-focused design approach ensures that compensation packages are both market-competitive and internally equitable, combining fixed pay with variable incentives that encourage long-term engagement. By aligning compensation with both market realities and employee expectations, you can safeguard your top talent, reduce turnover risk, and position your organization as an employer of choice.
Provides In-Depth Competitor Insights to Benchmark Your Company
Detailed Names & Designations at N, N-1, N-2, & N-3 Levels
Analysis of Leading Industry Competitors with Detailed Job Portfolios
Comprehensive Profiles of Potential Candidates
Insights on Revenue, Current &Future Plans, Perks, and Variable Payout Policies
Client to provide us with the list of 4 companies that they would like to track organization Structure with Names and Designations @ N, N minus 1 and N minus 2 levels (N being CEO/ MD) will be provided.
Get Compensation Benchmarking for all designation/ band levels for each of 4 comparators name wise.
Benefit from live compensation numbers sourced from people in those functions/ grades directly.
Gets valuable Insights from designation benchmarking of your competitors.
Helps you structure your bands/ grades and helps in hiring keeping designation parity in mind.
Brief profiles of 5 leaders from each comparator.
Client can identify the candidates from organization Structure for whom it would want brief profiles.
Understand career journeys of your competitors, backgrounds/ companies your competition is hiring from.
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We are India’s most agile executive search and leadership advisory firm, with over 1,500 leadership closures across industries. We’ve placed more than 50 CEOs and 40+ Partners in top consulting firms, establishing a proven record of impact.
From building entire leadership teams for financial services houses to closing rare mandates like Chief Data Scientist for a US tech firm’s India R&D centre, we have deep expertise in BFSI, Technology & Consulting, Industrials, Infrastructure, Healthcare, Consumer, and Retail.
We executed India’s largest team movement by a search firm (65+ leaders in one transaction) and facilitated the highest-value leadership hiring deal in India.
Our Founder & CEO, Ankit Bansal, is a serial HR entrepreneur with prior experience at McKinsey, PwC, and Standard Chartered. He also co-founded one of India’s largest flexi-job platforms and is an Advisory Board member of the India Diversity Forum.
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