Sigma Consulting Group

Sigma Consulting Group (operating online as mysigma.io) is a Lagos-headquartered advisory firm offering recruitment, HR outsourcing, and business advisory services across Nigeria, with a secondary office presence in the United Kingdom. The firm positions itself as a bridge between ambitious Nigerian companies — from family-run SMEs to oil & gas majors and fintech "unicorns" — and the operational rigor, compliance discipline, and talent standards typically associated with multinational corporations.

History & Founding

Sigma Consulting Group was founded in 2013 in Lagos. According to the company's own account, it began "with a single mission: to bring a higher standard of commercial awareness to the Nigerian recruitment industry." The founding premise, as the company describes it, was a gap the founders identified in the Nigerian market: businesses with strong ambition but weak operational infrastructure — brilliant founders "stuck in 'family business' informality," unable to attract top-tier talent or survive investor due diligence, alongside multinational corporations struggling with local regulatory complexity.

Sigma frames itself as the connective layer between those two poles — bringing "the rigor, process, and compliance of a Fortune 500 company" to fast-growing Nigerian SMEs so they can scale without their internal systems breaking down. Over the years since 2013, the firm describes itself as having grown into a multi-disciplinary consultancy working across Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt, and more recently into international markets via a London office.

Services

Sigma organizes its offerings into several core service lines, based on its website's services listing:

• Recruitment & Executive Search — sourcing and placing talent across seniority levels, from graduate trainees to C-suite executives (e.g., Medical Director, Chief Operating Officer, Head of HR roles have all been advertised through Sigma).
• HR Outsourcing / Employer of Record — enabling client companies to hire staff in Nigeria without establishing a local legal entity, with Sigma managing the associated legal and compliance risk.
• Payroll & Compliance — payroll management and regulatory compliance support, including messaging around avoiding penalties from Nigeria's Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
• Wellness — corporate HMO (health insurance) plans, mental health support, and employee health checks.
• Legal — compliance audits, contract reviews, and dispute resolution support.
• Mobility — immigration-related processing, including CERPAC (Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Aliens Card), Subject to Regularization (STR) visas, and work-permit quota renewals for expatriate staff.
• Advisory / Strategy — higher-level organizational consulting, including feasibility studies and talent mapping for foreign companies entering the Nigerian market, and job evaluation/grading exercises to determine role worth within a client's structure.
• Organizational Design — restructuring and change-management support.
• Training — corporate training, soft-skills workshops, and leadership development programs.
• Compensation Analysis — custom benchmarking reports to help clients keep pay competitive, including a published salary guide for the Lagos market and a payroll cost calculator.

Industries Served

Sigma markets deep sector-specific expertise across a wide range of industries, including:

• Oil, Gas & Energy — staffing across upstream, midstream, and downstream operations (drillers, geologists, petroleum engineers, HSE officers, rig crew, EPC project managers), stated as NCDMB-compliant; also renewable energy and power-sector roles (e.g., engineering and business-development leadership for renewable energy/power infrastructure clients).
• Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals — clinical staff, life-sciences research, and pharmaceutical development recruitment, plus market intelligence for healthcare organizations; job listings have included Medical Director, Clinical Director, and Head of Pharmacy roles.
• Financial Services — banking, fintech, investment management, and regulatory-compliance-related roles, along with pension custody/administration positions.
• Technology — talent solutions and business-process improvement aimed at fast-moving tech companies.
• Retail & E-commerce — industry research and digital-platform optimization support.
• Manufacturing — production engineering, quality assurance, and plant management staffing.
• Agriculture — staffing for sustainable agriculture, food production, and agri-tech ventures.
• Logistics — supply chain management, transport planning, and warehouse operations roles.
• Construction & Real Estate — roles such as Quantity Surveyor have been advertised for Lagos-based construction clients.
• FMCG — business development roles for food ingredients and commodity-trading companies.

Leadership & People

Sigma's public messaging emphasizes its consulting team broadly ("Our People") rather than spotlighting a small executive roster — the firm's "Our People" page describes its consultants as combining "analytical brilliance, empathetic understanding, and creative problem-solving" across domains, positioning the collective team, rather than any single leader, as the face of the firm. Public sourcing did not turn up a confirmed, on-the-record founder or CEO name tied specifically to Sigma Consulting Group in Nigeria (note: this is a distinct company from the similarly named Swedish IT consultancy Sigma AB/Sigma Group, and from the U.S. data-analytics firm Mu Sigma — neither is affiliated with the Lagos-based Sigma Consulting Group profiled here).

Locations

• Head Office: 14 Ikosi Road, Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria (some listings also cite a nearby address at the Multipurpose Co-operative Society Building, 76 Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Anthony, Ikeja, Lagos).
• International Office: 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom.
• Sigma describes its work as also spanning Abuja and Port Harcourt, though these appear to be markets served rather than confirmed additional branch offices.

Contact & Online Presence

• Website: mysigma.io
• General/Sales phone (Lagos): 0708 698 9282 / +234 708 698 9282 (also listed as +234 (0) 8096253000 in some healthcare-recruitment listings)
• London phone: +44 20 7126 8379
• Email: contact@mysigma.io (general), hiring@mysigma.io (recruitment/careers), privacy@mysigma.io (data protection officer)
• Business hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. WAT (Lagos); Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. GMT (London)
• Careers portal: mysigma.careers-page.com, listing live vacancies across the industries above
• Sigma also maintains a Facebook business page (facebook.com/sigmagroupng) and LinkedIn company pages (including a Nigeria-facing presence and a UK-facing "Sigma Consulting Group | UK HR & Recruitment" page), and is listed on directories including GoAfricaOnline, Glassdoor, and Prosple Nigeria (which features Sigma's graduate programs).

Values & Positioning

Sigma's public messaging repeatedly stresses three operating principles: operating with integrity in "industries where trust is currency," matching the speed of business with rapid deployment and same-day (24-hour) response times, and treating quality over quantity as central to its recruitment philosophy — explicitly rejecting a "CV spam" approach in favor of rigorously vetted candidates. The firm also emphasizes transparency around salary benchmarking and realistic client timelines, and describes its consultants as operating "as an extension" of a client's internal team rather than as an arm's-length vendor.

Reputation & Client-Facing Content

Sigma publishes client testimonials on its site praising its sector knowledge (one client credits Sigma with helping "avoid a potential compliance nightmare") and its end-to-end HR outsourcing capability (another describes Sigma as handling "everything from recruitment to payroll compliance seamlessly"). The firm also runs a content arm covering Nigerian HR/employment topics — salary benchmarking guides, compliance-risk explainers (e.g., FIRS penalties for poor payroll record-keeping), inflation and wage-pressure commentary, and warnings about the rise of falsified degrees and inflated CVs in the Nigerian job market — positioning itself as a thought leader in the local HR space.