Vacancy title:
Strategy and Analytics Lead

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Consulting, Category: Management, Business Operations, Accounting & Finance, Professional Services]

Jobs at:
Q-Sourcing

Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, September 1 2026

Duty Station:
East Africa | Kampala

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, August 26 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

About QSSG

Q-Sourcing Servtec Group (QSSG) is a pan-East African workforce solutions platform operating across Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and South Sudan. The Group delivers recruitment, payroll, outsourcing, training, productivity and managed services to organisations at scale, and is ISO 9001:2015 certified. As QSSG advances its continental growth agenda, the Office of the Group CEO is being reinforced with a coordinated slate of senior appointments.

With a strong commitment to growth, QSSG has a vision to expand its impact across the African continent, establishing itself as the partner of choice in human capital solutions. We are looking for a commercially astute Strategy and Analytics Lead to join our team.

Job Title: Strategy and Analytics Lead

Reports To: Group CEO

Location: East Africa (multi-jurisdiction, Group-level appointment)

Role Purpose

The Strategy and Analytics Lead sits inside the Office of the Group CEO. The role is the analytical anchor for strategic questions, converting raw operating and financial data into decision-ready analysis that the Group CEO, ExCo and Boards can act on. The appointee owns the analytical toolkit, cadence and standards that inform strategic choice across the Group, and works as a thinking partner to senior leadership on the economic drivers of the business.

Strategic Mandate

• Decision-Ready Analytics : Convert raw data into structured analysis that closes strategic decisions on cadence.
• Economic Clarity : Give leadership a continuously refreshed view of the Group’s economic engine, unit economics and margin levers.
• Strategy Support: Anchor the analytical foundation for annual planning, market entry, capital allocation and investment cases.
• Performance Insight : Design and maintain the KPI and dashboard architecture that tracks Group performance against strategic priorities.
• Analytical Discipline: Establish standards, tooling and methods that make analysis at QSSG repeatable, auditable and comparable.
• Thinking Partnership: Sit alongside the Group CEO as a rigorous, evidence-driven sparring partner.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Analysis for the CEO
   Structure and deliver decision-grade analysis on the strategic questions the Group CEO faces, from market entry to capital allocation. Frame trade-offs, model scenarios, present options with recommendations.
2. Economic Engine Intelligence
   Maintain working command of QSSG’s unit economics, contract structures, pricing dynamics, cash conversion and margin levers. Refresh continuously.
3. KPI & Dashboard Architecture
   Design and maintain the Group’s strategic KPI framework and dashboard suite. Every strategic priority has a measurable indicator, an owner and a cadence.
4. Annual Planning Support
   Anchor the analytical inputs to the annual planning cycle. Prepare the fact base that shapes strategic choices and quality-assure the numbers that go to Board.
5. Market & Competitor Intelligence
   Maintain a live view of the Group’s competitive landscape across markets, service lines and adjacent sectors. Surface implications for strategic positioning.
6. Analytical Standards & Tooling
   Establish standards for data sourcing, methods, model versioning and reporting. Select and deploy tools that make analysis scalable across the Group.

Mandatory Qualifications, Experience & Competencies

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business Administration, Finance, Data Science, Engineering or a comparable analytical discipline.
• Postgraduate qualification (MBA, MSc Finance, MSc Economics, MSc Analytics) strongly preferred.

Professional & Technical

• Fluency in modern analytics tooling: Excel at expert level, BI platforms (Power BI, Tableau, Zoho Analytics).
• SQL and Python for data work an advantage.

Experience

• 7 to 10 years of analytical or strategic experience.
• Last 3+ years in a role that combined strategy work and applied analytics.
• Direct exposure to strategy consulting, corporate strategy, investment analysis or financial planning and analysis.
• Multi-market African experience preferred.

Core Competencies

• Analytical Rigour : Structures problems crisply; interrogates assumptions.
• Strategic Thinking: Translates ambiguous questions into structured analytical work.
• Commercial Acumenz: Reads financial statements fluently; understands unit economics.
• Executive Communication: Writes and presents to senior leadership with precision.
• Data Fluency: Comfortable across the stack from raw data to dashboard.
• Judgement: Knows when the numbers are speaking and when they are being asked to say something they cannot.
• Discipline: Ships analysis on cadence. Meets Board timetables.
• Curiosity: Voraciously interested in the business and the market.

What Success Looks Like in the First 12 Months

The appointee will be measured against verified outcomes, not activity. The targets below are the bar. They are also the standard against which the Strategic Brief submitted with this application will be assessed.

1. Group KPI framework live: Documented, agreed KPI framework in place across the Group, with owners, cadence and dashboard visualisation. Every strategic priority tracked to a measurable indicator.
2. Annual planning fact base delivered: The analytical foundation for the Group’s next annual planning cycle prepared and quality-assured. Board received a defensible fact base.
3. Economic engine map published: A structured, evidence-based view of QSSG’s unit economics, margin drivers and cash conversion, refreshed quarterly.
4. Strategic decision support anchored: ExCo and the Group CEO received analytical support on every material strategic question raised during the year, on cadence.
5. Market & competitor view operational: Live competitive intelligence view covering the Group’s five markets and priority adjacent sectors, refreshed quarterly.
6. Analytical standards documented: Standards for data sourcing, methods, model versioning and reporting written and applied consistently across the year.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: postgraduate degree

Job application procedure
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How to Apply:

Submit a CV AND a written Strategic Brief of up to 500 words (PDF or Word), addressing all three questions below. The brief is the primary filter for the interview. It is deliberately short: brevity under constraint is itself a capability test, and compression of judgement is the daily work of this role. Your brief will be assessed against the twelve-month success bar published above. Applications without the brief will not be reviewed.

1. Strategic question framing : What three strategic questions should QSSG’s leadership be asking about its economic engine over the next 12 to 24 months? Explain why each matters and what evidence you would seek to answer them.
2. Analytics function design : Describe how you would design the analytics function that supports the Office of the Group CEO. What data would you prioritise, how would you present it, and what cadence would you set with leadership?
3. A decision worth making: Identify one strategic decision you would recommend QSSG’s leadership consider seriously in the next 6 months, based on your reading of the business and East African market context. Explain your reasoning and what evidence you would seek before acting.

NOTE:

Applications, including the CV and Strategic Brief, should be sent , Subject line: Application: Strategy and Analytics Lead, QSSG, [Your Full Name]

Deadline: Tuesday, 1st September 2026 , 5:00pm EAT

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Applicants must hold the legal right to work in at least one East African country where QSSG operates.

Q-SOURCING SERVTEC IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. ANY SOLICITATION WILL LEAD TO DISQUALIFICATION.

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