Executive Talent Benchmarking

Benchmark Leadership Capability Against the Market

Talent Benchmarking helps organisations evaluate leadership capability against external market standards, identify capability gaps and make more informed hiring, development and succession decisions. Understand how your executive team compares against competitors and where additional capability may be required to support future growth.

How Does Your Leadership Team Compare?

Understanding Leadership Capability

Organisations often invest heavily in leadership development without fully understanding how their executive capability compares against the external market.

Talent Benchmarking provides a clearer view of strengths, development areas and future capability requirements using external market comparisons and objective leadership criteria.

Building Stronger Leadership Teams

Supporting Leadership Decision Making

Whether preparing for growth, succession planning or transformation, effective leadership decisions require a clear understanding of both internal capability and external alternatives.Talent Benchmarking provides evidence-based insights that improve recruitment, development and succession planning strategies.

450

Consultants

Operating across the globe, offering deep industry expertise.

1400+

Executives Placed

Across industrials, infrastructure, life sciences, logistics, and private equity in global markets.

40

Global Offices

Ensuring local insights with a global reach.

Why Choose JacksonGrant Executive for Talent Benchmarking

Understanding leadership capability relative to the market is essential for effective succession planning, executive hiring and organisational growth. JacksonGrant Executive helps organisations assess leadership capability against external benchmarks and future business requirements.

About Us

External Market Perspective

Benchmark leadership capability against industry peers, competitors and relevant executive talent markets to understand where current capability stands.

Leadership Capability Assessment

Evaluate current executive performance, leadership effectiveness and long-term potential against strategic business requirements.

Executive Talent Comparisons

Understand how internal leadership capability compares against available executive talent within the external market.

Succession Readiness Evaluation

Assess organisational bench strength and identify whether sufficient leadership capability exists to support future succession requirements.

Leadership Gap Identification

Identify capability gaps that may impact future growth, transformation initiatives or organisational performance.

Industries We Serve

Tailored Talent Benchmarking with Industry-Specific Expertise

Identify transformational Board and CEO leaders who understand the unique challenges and opportunities of your industry. Whether that’s navigating the complexities of financial services, driving innovation in technology, or steering growth in construction and transportation.

Aerospace & Defence Systems
AgriTech & Biotechnology Solutions
Animal Health, Nutrition & Welfare
Automotive & Mobility Innovation
Semiconductors, Electronics & Cloud Infrastructure
Construction & Infrastructure Development
Consumer Goods & Market Growth
EV, Battery Technology
Energy & Natural Resources
FoodTech & Industrial Automation
Logistics & Supply Chain
Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
Real Estate & Property Development
Chemicals & Advanced Materials
Private Equity & Investment Management
Functional Expertise

Benchmark Talent Against Functions That Propel Organisational Success

With JacksonGrant’s expertise in Board and CEO Search, organisations can secure leaders with strategic vision and operational expertise to excel in critical operational areas.

C-Suite & Executive Leadership
Engineering & Technical Leadership
Legal, Compliance & Risk Management
Manufacturing & Operations Leadership
Marketing, Brand & Product Strategy
People & Culture Leadership
Project, Program & Transformation Management
Real Estate, Facilities & Asset Management
Research, Development & Innovation
Sales & Business Development
Strategic Finance & Accounting

Datapath Ltd.

We have worked with JacksonGrant Executive for recruiting senior sales roles to cover Southeast Asia, our engagments are always smoothly and successfully executed. On each occasion, JacksonGrant Executive impressed us with their responsiveness, professionalism, speed, pragmatism, transparency, and general 'ease of working together' throughout the process - from understanding our business and our target candidate profile, identifying and introducing appropriate candidates, arranging interviews and 'backchannel' liasing with candidates, and appropriately advising on expectations and next best steps.

I would not hesitate to work with JacksonGrant Exeecutive for any future recruitment needs, and can confidently recommend JacksonGrant Executive to anyone seeking recruitment services in their region.

Michael Austin
Director of Sales, APAC

ECCO

JacksonGrant Executive has an effective recruiting strategy for finding the right candidate for the job. I often refer to the team as "The Match Maker." With superb customer service and excellent follow-up skills, clients are never left wondering about the status of the process. I was a candidate before becoming a client, and when the opportunity came to grow within my organisation, JacksonGrant Executive was the only name I trusted to find my successor.

Boondharika Kaweewong
Head of ECCO Leather Goods, Asia Pacific

K.E. Group

I'd like to express my heartfelt gratitude for the past few months. Working with JacksonGrant Executive has been a new yet profound experience, allowing me to gain valuable insight during our coaching sessions together. Thank you again for your listening, coaching, and support in helping me grow along the way. My next steps will be to execute all action steps consistently, and I'm excited to continue this journey!

Kavin Eiamsakulrat
Director

Lumentum International (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

As our company grows in Asia and especially in Thailand, it hasbeen a true customer experience to work with JacksonGrant Executive whilst going through the process of searching, filtering and appointing a senior executive. JacksonGrant Executive was able to quickly understand our needs very precisely, mainly because of their experience and practical understanding of the roles. We have a very succesfful partership with JacksonGrant Executive on all our professional opportunities in line with our strategy of growth. JacksonGrant Executive is able to take a lot of the heavy lifting from our shoulders to allow us to focus on the needs of the business in order to get theright mix of talent either locally or from their worldwide network. As we move forward in our growth model, JacksonGrant Executive will be in step with us, advising and supporting our challenges in executive recruitment.

Chris Parsons
Senior Vice President

East-West Seed International Ltd.

I have been working with JacksonGrant Executive both as a candidate and a client. JacksonGrant Executive has a distinctive approach to executive search: they strive to understand both the client’s and candidate’s cultures, expectations and motivations by establishing a close personal relationship with all parties. JacksonGrant Executive genuinely cares for a mutually beneficial outcome. Besides, I was personally always impressed by the follow-up post-placement.

I warmly recommend JacksonGrant Executive as a very reliable and professional partner in executive search.

Marc Phillipe
Group Chief Financial Officer

Driessen Catering Equipment

From the very start, JacksonGrant Executive was professional in its approach and genuinely interested in understanding the needs of its clients. The team took the effort to go through the details and provided timely and relevant updates and feedback throughout the whole process.

Jerry van Vive
CEO

HM.CLAUSE

JacksonGrant Executive helped us to fulfill different positions at HM CLAUSE Asia in different contexts and countries. It is very rare to find a recruitment company that understands the company culture, business needs and specially the leadership needed accordingly to the maturity of the business. JacksonGrant Executive has helped me to find excellent profiles in Asia, with a deeper assessment of company fit, and this is not through massive tests, process and tools. Through many years of experience JacksonGrant knows what is going to work or not, and is wise to give customers honest feedback. JacksonGrant will build long-term relationships with its clients, following the recruiter path to be successful for both recruitee and the company. I have worked with many external recruiters throughout my career and I can recommend JacksonGrant Executive as one of the best professional companies I have met!

Sheila Becker
Human Resources DIrector, Asia
Sheila Becker
Human Resources DIrector, Asia
JacksonGrant Executive helped us to fulfill different positions at HM CLAUSE Asia in different contexts and countries. It is very rare to find a recruitment company that understands the company culture, business needs and specially the leadership needed accordingly to the maturity of the business. JacksonGrant Executive has helped me to find excellent profiles in Asia, with a deeper assessment of company fit, and this is not through massive tests, process and tools. Through many years of experience JacksonGrant knows what is going to work or not, and is wise to give customers honest feedback.

JacksonGrant will build long-term relationships with its clients, following the recruiter path to be successful for both recruitee and the company. I have worked with many external recruiters throughout my career and I can recommend JacksonGrant Executive as one of the best professional companies I have met!
Michael Austin
Director of Sales, APAC
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's.We have worked with JacksonGrant Executive for recruiting senior sales roles to cover Southeast Asia, our engagments are always smoothly and successfully executed. On each occasion, JacksonGrant Executive impressed us with their responsiveness, professionalism, speed, pragmatism, transparency, and general 'ease of working together' throughout the process - from understanding our business and our target candidate profile, identifying and introducing appropriate candidates, arranging interviews and 'backchannel' liasing with candidates, and appropriately advising on expectations and next best steps.

I would not hesitate to work with JacksonGrant Exeecutive for any future recruitment needs, and can confidently recommend JacksonGrant Executive to anyone seeking recruitment services in their region.
Boondharika Kaweewong
Head of ECCO Leather Goods, Asia Pacific
JacksonGrant Executive has an effective recruiting strategy for finding the right candidate for the job. I often refer to the team as "The Match Maker." With superb customer service and excellent follow-up skills, clients are never left wondering about the status of the process. I was a candidate before becoming a client, and when the opportunity came to grow within my organisation, JacksonGrant Executive was the only name I trusted to find my successor.
Kavin Eiamsakulrat
Director
I'd like to express my heartfelt gratitude for the past few months. Working with JacksonGrant Executive has been a new yet profound experience, allowing me to gain valuable insight during our coaching sessions together.

Thank you again for your listening, coaching, and support in helping me grow along the way. My next steps will be to execute all action steps consistently, and I'm excited to continue this journey!
Chris Parsons
Senior Vice President
As our company grows in Asia and especially in Thailand, it hasbeen a true customer experience to work with JacksonGrant Executive whilst going through the process of searching, filtering and appointing a senior executive. JacksonGrant Executive was able to quickly understand our needs very precisely, mainly because of their experience and practical understanding of the roles. We have a very succesfful partership with JacksonGrant Executive on all our professional opportunities in line with our strategy of growth.

JacksonGrant Executive is able to take a lot of the heavy lifting from our shoulders to allow us to focus on the needs of the business in order to get theright mix of talent either locally or from their worldwide network. As we move forward in our growth model, JacksonGrant Executive will be in step with us, advising and supporting our challenges in executive recruitment.
Marc Phillipe
Group Chief Financial Officer
I have been working with JacksonGrant Executive both as a candidate and a client. JacksonGrant Executive has a distinctive approach to executive search: they strive to understand both the client’s and candidate’s cultures, expectations and motivations by establishing a close personal relationship with all parties. JacksonGrant Executive genuinely cares for a mutually beneficial outcome. Besides, I was personally always impressed by the follow-up post-placement.

I warmly recommend JacksonGrant Executive as a very reliable and professional partner in executive search.
Jerry van Vive
CEO
From the very start, JacksonGrant Executive was professional in its approach and genuinely interested in understanding the needs of its clients.

The team took the effort to go through the details and provided timely and relevant updates and feedback throughout the whole process.

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