How are rivals building their leadership teams, and where do they hire from?
See competitors’ leadership structures, the roles they are adding and where they hire from, so your talent strategy responds to the market rather than last year’s plan.
THE PROBLEM
Competitor insight usually arrives as anecdote
Your own systems can’t see inside rival companies. Piecing it together from individual profiles takes weeks, and a one-off consultancy report starts to date as soon as it is presented.
Competitor talent intelligence closes that gap. MapX maps the leadership teams of the companies you compete with, function by function, so you can see how they are organised, which roles they are adding and where their senior hires come from, then compare them side by side.
Your HR system knows your own people in depth, but not how rivals are moving.
Networks and keyword tools find profiles one search at a time, with no structure to compare.
Consultancy projects give a single answer that takes weeks and is hard to repeat.
MapX lines up every relevant competitor on the same scale in hours, and you can rerun it each quarter.
Questions it answers
Which leadership roles have competitors created in the last two years? New titles and new functions show where rivals are investing, often long before it appears in an annual report.
Where do they hire senior leaders from? See the feeder companies behind each rival’s senior hires, and whether they promote from within or bring talent in.
Who have we lost to them, and who have we gained? Track leadership moves between you and each competitor, with every leader named.
How big are their teams in each function? Compare bench size and seniority mix across operations, commercial, finance, digital and more.
Who are the rising leaders at each competitor? Spot high-potential leaders early, for benchmarking today and hiring later.
Which rivals are investing in data, digital or sustainability leadership? Specialist roles reveal strategy, and MapX classifies 420 specialisms across 16 functions.
The ingredients behind the answer
Every company and career in MapX is classified the same way. Combine the ingredients and the answer gets sharper. Polaris does this for every search.
For competitor analysis, you choose the rivals, functions and locations that matter, and MapX lines up their leadership teams on one scale: function, specialism, seniority, tenure and career history.
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Companies
Any of 2m+ classified companies, public or private.
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Functions
Which roles rivals are creating, by function and specialism.
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Progression
Talent flows: who moved where, and from which companies.
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Locations
Where each competitor builds its leadership teams.
What the output looks like
Operations leadership at 13 competitors side by side: bench size, external hiring, tenure and feeder employers, then how rivals organise and a deep dive on two of them. Shown in a client’s brand, with illustrative data and anonymised leaders.
Where rivals hire from: senior hires by previous employer over two years.
Competitor structures, side by side: team size and operating model for each rival.
Competitor talent benchmark: scale, relevant talent and mobility indicators by firm.
Every report is editable in PowerPoint and arrives in your brand, ready for the leadership team.
22m+
Senior leaders profiled, worldwide
2m+
Companies classified, public or private
420
Specialisms across 16 functions
11
Languages read in job titles
Questions teams ask
What teams ask before they start.
Which companies can you cover?
Any company among MapX’s 2m+ classified companies, public or private, in any country.
Can we track changes over time?
Yes. Rerun the analysis each quarter to see new roles, hires and departures, and how each rival’s structure is shifting.
Can we see named leaders?
Yes. Every count links to the leaders behind it, so you can go from the pattern to the people.
How is this different from an org chart?
An org chart shows one company at one moment. MapX classifies every rival the same way, so you can compare structures, hiring patterns and talent flows side by side, and repeat it.
Where does the data come from?
MapX joins up data on 22 million senior leaders and 2 million companies, and classifies every company and career the same way. See Trust and security for the detail.
Can 6 Group do the analysis for us?
Yes. Your team can run it in MapX, and 6 Group’s executive research and talent intelligence team can guide the work or take it on. See research services.
How do we get started?
Two calls: one to set up your report library in your brand, one to run a first analysis together on a competitor you choose.
Is our work confidential?
Yes. Your searches and reports are confidential and segmented by customer, and no personal information is shared with AI models.
See how one rival builds its leadership team
Book a 45-minute demo. Bring a live search or a talent question and we'll show you what MapX finds, and what you'd get. Or start with the free sample pack: three finished reports in a client's brand.