Senior Operations Associate
Sun King
Operations
South Africa
Posted on Nov 20, 2024
Job Location: Johannesburg, South Africa.
About the role:
The Senior Operations Associate will work closely with the Operations team to ensure the organisation has adequate capacity to build new business units and expand existing operations in the region.
About the role:
The Senior Operations Associate will work closely with the Operations team to ensure the organisation has adequate capacity to build new business units and expand existing operations in the region.
- Department
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- South Africa
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
- Senior Operations Manager
What you would be expected to do:
- Keeping an inventory of all merchandise entering or exiting the warehouse.
- Receiving and documenting merchandise for delivery or return.
- Following up on inventory projections from the Head of Sales
- Comparing the projections with the updated pipeline inventory
- Preparing Proforma Invoice, Packing lists and other sales/export documents
- Daily invoicing of the sold-out units
- Coordinating dispatch to ensure same day rides for overnight delivery
- Ensuring that delivery to partners is done within the set timelines
- Managing export to partners in Africa and other countries
- Preparation of importation orders seamlessly
- Ensure document compliance and appropriate Form M number
- Ensure timely clearance by following up expeditiously on the clearance process as per the set LAs with the CHA.
- Creating Request for Quotation (RFQ) templates, sending out the RFQs to
vendors/suppliers to get prices - Issuing Purchase Orders (PO) for products and services to selected vendors
- Creating and maintaining reports reflecting recurring purchases as well as the prices
- Collecting invoice from vendor after confirming all goods or services have been delivered to meet quality expectations and time (SLA)
- Processing vendor payment with finance
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
- A bachelor's degree in Supply chain/Purchasing and supplies/Business Management from a Premier institution.
- A minimum of 3 years experience, preferably FMCG, in the supply chain line.
- Knowledge and hands-on experience in warehousing and distribution.
- The ability to work with distributors, sales teams, and sales agents to ensure smooth distribution operations.
- Knowledge and working experience with a robust ERP / WMS (knowledge of SAP materials management module is an added advantage).
- Excellent hands-on Experience using computer tools (excel /macros /v-lookup/charts /pivot table) for business.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to distil information and know how to communicate to different audiences to get results.
- Reside in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Excellent communication skills and can clearly and straight to the point communicate fluently in both written and spoken English and other local languages.
What Sun King Offers:
- An opportunity to grow as a professional in a dynamic, fast growing, high impact industry.
- The chance to work in an open minded, collaborative culture surrounded by enthusiastic people who are driven by the challenge of continuously innovating and growing a smart, sustainable business with profound impact on the world.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Academy.
About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.
Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.
