Insight & Talent Analytics

Talent Data for Bid Teams

Our dedicated Insights and Talent Analytics team deliver fully compliant, bid-ready talent intelligence to provide certainty around talent pool size, quality, and cost, allowing bid teams to project talent availability and total people costs more accurately in key locations.

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We work in true partnership and to your bid timeline, delivering critical talent data ready to be incorporated into your submission and acting as a consultative partner to your bid team.

Our Commitment

As a global leader in research-driven talent solutions, Armstrong Craven has a strong track record of supporting leading international services companies with successful bids worth millions. Our experience includes major private and public sector justice and industrial and transportation bids in Europe, APAC, and the Middle East. 

We can advise on talent pool feasibility and sustainability at an early stage, deliver talent pool size and quality data, and make recommendations about salary cost, talent competition, EVP, attraction factors and time-to-hire, all of which can support modelling for operating expenditure and mobilisation planning.

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Providing Bid-Ready Salary Data

Proprietary data

With over 30 years of global experience, Armstrong Craven has access to extensive salary and market data gathered on live assignments, used in a GDPR-compliant fashion.

Published data

The team analyses all available published salary data from salary surveys, paid subscriptions, press, company filings and aggregators.

Vacancy data

We search millions of live and historic job advertisements to gather real salaries for the relevant region, job family, specific role and level.

Primary data

We identify potential candidates and conduct ethical, anonymous interviews to ascertain current and expected salary and provide live data on the talent market and your competitors.

How We Help

We support our clients by providing detailed and conclusive data on their talent needs for every stage of the bid life-cycle. Our service comprises four phases:

Will the proposed location support our hiring needs?

Our talent pool analysis is vital to an organisation's success when attracting talent with in-demand or scarce skills, particularly in large volumes. We understand that talent acquisition teams are under pressure to hire while maintaining low costs and increasing representation levels, particularly when working within the public sector. Therefore, our expert research enables organisations to understand whether they will be able to hire the critical talent at the right cost,  to achieve their goals. 

Our research provides real-time data on crucial areas, including:

●    Volume of talent available 
●    Hiring costs
●    Compensation and benefits 
●    Hiring activity of competitors
●    Awareness and perception of your brand and organisation
●    Relevant local educational institutes 
 

Gaining a deep understanding of relevant people data

Detailed, client-ready reports developed by our Insight and Talent Analytics team offer a deep understanding of the local talent population in the bid location(s). These insights will ensure you have confidence about the cost and complexity of hiring the required talent and will allow you to gain an edge over your competitors. 

We are able to analyse a wide range of factors that businesses need to consider when setting up their operations, including:

●    Size of talent population 
●    Typical salary ranges
●    Average experience levels 
●    Diversity of talent 
●    Employee benefits 
●    Cost of living
●    Commuting trends
●    Language capabilities  

Who are the best candidates in these locations? 

Talent mapping provides a comprehensive, ATS-ready list of relevant talent aligned with your requirements. 

It also quantifies a particular market to enable our clients to understand the talent demographics in that location. This phase allows us to ask and answer the following crucial questions:

●    What are the optimal hiring strategies?
●    Who are the strongest local talent competitors? 
●    How representative is the talent pool?
●    What is the quality and seniority of this talent?

Which candidates are available and interested?  

Getting talent engagement right can ensure an organisation stays ahead in a competitive market. We help you develop talent engagement in two ways, lite-screening and full competency-based screening.

Lite-screening: provides candidate engagement with the maximum number of mapped individuals who can then be further assessed through additional screening. This process typically has three or four agreed 'key qualifying questions'. 

Full competency-based screening: enables us to assess the candidates to generate a pipeline of Qualified-Interested-Available (QIA) talent with a detailed profile for each person. This process can also identify talent not ready to engage now but who may be suitable for your future hiring needs. 

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Working alongside leading TA & HR professionals

General Electric
London Stock Exchange
BBC
abbvie
accenture
SAP
AngloAmerican
ASDA
AstraZeneca
avanade
babcock
Balfour Beatty
BANK OF AMERICA
Bloomberg
bp
Canon
Capita
EATON
facebook
GlaxoSmithKline
IMI
intuit
JnJ
Kelloggs
LOTUS
MARS Petcare
MERCK
mimecast
Pearson
Providence
Schneider Electric
serco
Specsavers
stryker
coop
vmware
vodafone
Our company has used Armstrong Craven for over 10 years to source high quality talent. As we work to ensure our talent management strategy supports our business strategy, we are increasingly using AC to provide customised insights to inform our mid- to long-term talent planning. Our needs vary but overall, the information we get from AC ensures we create an employment offering that ensures we attract and retain the high calibre people we need, when we need them.
Global Pharmaceutical Company Global Talent Business Lead
The business really appreciates your support. Your Insights capability accelerated our knowledge transfer. Without partnering with Armstrong Craven, it would have taken us a year to get to the same point in our understanding of the market.
Global Biotech Director, Global Talent Acquistition
Armstrong Craven was recommended to me by the Group HR head of a FTSE 250 company in the UK. We were provided with a set of very viable candidates in each of the assignments and they helped us through the difficult selection process, as the finalists in both cases were all quite exceptional.
Innovative UK Start-up Interim CEO
We are increasingly retaining Armstrong Craven for roles at the highest levels and can rely on them to deliver the same level of service as Executive search firms using a much better cost model to the standard starting salary percentage model.
Asda Head of Resourcing
We have used Armstrong Craven on a number of occasions now for executive research at the very highest levels and on each and every occasion they have helped us locate the right candidate, all of whom have gone on to make a fundamental contribution to the health and development of our businesses.
Liquid Plastics Ltd Managing Director
We are increasingly using Armstrong Craven rather than traditional search or head-hunters to support us with innovative, timely and cost effective sourcing of candidates. Armstrong Craven take a different approach to executive search and talent planning and are a great supplier for a business like us who is moving to direct sourcing.
AstraZeneca plc Global Recruitment Partner
Thanks for all your help in scouring the field for talent. I think the mapping and search worked out very well! I’d be happy to work with you again on similar talent needs.
Major Pharma Company SLT Member
We thank you for the excellent support and will definitely come back to AC for future pipelining.
Major Medical Devices Company Global VP HR
Spot on and thorough project, Great job, looking forward to reaching out to the individuals Really great, very happy, good to engage in more work including pipeline, search and mapping.
Major Pharma Company TA Head

Case Studies

Project Examples

Succession Planning for a C-Suite Role in the CFO Group

Our work with a global bank to improve the bench strength and introducing talent from underrepresented groups in the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) group.

 
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Addressing the Gender Imbalance in Tech

As part of a project with a leading online retailer, we evaluated the talent motivations & barriers impacting female tech talent in key tech roles.

 
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Hiring Highly Skilled Talent in an Unfamiliar Location

Discover how we discreetly found talent for 10 key positions and built a talent pipeline and map for future hiring.

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Talent Research into the Effectiveness of a Leadership Team

Our work in the field marketing industry, focussed on identifying the drivers of high-performance and benchmarking leadership performance against competitors.

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Benchmarking HR Analytics Activity and Strategy Against the Market

A case study on our work with a global energy major to generate better insight into its HR analytics.

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Covering 51 Countries in 3 Months

Our Global Insights

Our Talent Insights team has strategically mapped and engaged with multiple countries across the globe, gathering real-time data from a variety of data sources and relevant talent pools.

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