Category Archives: For Employers

CIO Job Description Template: Responsibilities, Requirements, and KPIs

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As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I offer this CIO job description template as a working document, not a formality. The template below covers responsibilities, requirements, and KPIs; the sections after it explain how to adapt each element to your […]

Chief Accounting Officer Job Description Template: Responsibilities, Requirements, and KPIs

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As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I offer this Chief Accounting Officer job description template as a working document, not a formality. The template below covers responsibilities, requirements, and KPIs; the sections after it explain how to adapt […]

Plant Manager Job Description Template: Responsibilities, Requirements, and KPIs

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As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I built this Plant Manager job description template from the specifications that actually close searches. Copy the template below, then, more importantly, customize it with the guidance that follows: a job […]

25 Interview Questions to Ask When Hiring a Chief Product Officer (With What Great Answers Sound Like)

Product Strategy Meeting

As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I built this set of interview questions to ask when hiring a Chief Product Officer for hiring committees that want signal, not performance. Twenty-five questions follow, organized by competency, each with notes on […]

25 Interview Questions to Ask When Hiring a VP of Marketing (With What Great Answers Sound Like)

CMO Candidate Meeting

As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I have compiled these interview questions to ask when hiring a VP of Marketing from the patterns across hundreds of executive assessments. The VP of Marketing interview fails predictably: fluent candidates narrate […]

25 Interview Questions to Ask When Hiring a VP of Procurement (With What Great Answers Sound Like)

Procurement Executive Interview

As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I built this set of interview questions to ask when hiring a VP of Procurement for hiring committees that want signal, not performance. Twenty-five questions follow, organized by competency, each with notes on […]

How to Measure Chief Commercial Officer Performance: KPIs, Scorecards, and Benchmarks

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As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I wrote this guide to how to measure Chief Commercial Officer performance because the measurement question decides the hiring question: boards that cannot say how they will judge the role cannot reliably select […]

How to Measure VP of Marketing Performance: KPIs, Scorecards, and Benchmarks

Digital Marketing Performance Analytics

As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I offer this guide to VP of Marketing KPIs and performance measurement for the boards and CEOs who own the review. A role is governed by what its scorecard rewards, so the scorecard deserves the same rigor as the […]

How to Measure VP of Procurement Performance: KPIs, Scorecards, and Benchmarks

Procurement Dashboard

As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I built this framework for measuring VP of Procurement performance from the scorecards that actually govern well. Measurement done badly is worse than none: it rewards theater and punishes honesty. The six KPIs […]

The First 90 Days: An Onboarding Roadmap for a General Counsel

General Counsel Onboarding

As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I built this 90-day onboarding roadmap for a General Counsel from the transitions that succeeded and the autopsies of those that did not. The first ninety days are asymmetric: credibility built early compounds for […]