Regional Store Coordinator, Northern & ASAL
Sun King
Kenya
Posted on Mar 13, 2025
Location: Northern & ASAL
About the role:
The Regional Store Coordinator will oversee inventory management at the Company’s retail centres, extending to field-based agents. The role involves regular travel within the station region.
About the role:
The Regional Store Coordinator will oversee inventory management at the Company’s retail centres, extending to field-based agents. The role involves regular travel within the station region.
- Department
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Kenya
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
- Country Store Manager
What you would be expected to do:
Retail centers day to day assistance
- Liaise with the warehouse team to ensure that inventory is readily available for sale.
- Offer assistance to retail executives to ensure they meet their KPIs.
- Liaise with the sales team to review retail centre executives on potential improvement areas.
- Initiate requests for declaration signoffs for missing inventory
- Report cases of inventory damages/ losses to allow for insurance claim to be initiated.
- Initiate discussions revolving around new initiatives geared at ensuring retail centers are efficient and effective in services rendered.
- Conduct regular inventory audits, whether scheduled or impromptu
- Review processes and controls existing to ensure they are optimized to reduce redundancies within the chain.
- Will represent the department in all meetings scheduled with either internal or external stakeholders within the region that involve inventory management and retail center management.
- Will conduct handovers from retail center executives to relievers and vice versa.
- Will vet relievers to ensure that they meet the requisite qualifications needed to run the retail centers.
- Will request for payment for relievers for days worked.
- Sit in for interviews when required alongside with Human Resource during onboarding of new retail center executives.
- Liaise with the sales team and marketing team to identify potential sites that might be considered as new retail centers.
- Conduct regular checks on assets at the retail centers to ensure that they are in good working order.
- Liaise with the Admin team to schedule repairs at the retail centers.
- Liaise with the Admin team to engage landlords on any issues that might exist.
Order and inventory Management
- Initiate inventory movements and requests from warehouse to retail centers
- Liaise with the warehouse team to resolve any inconsistencies that come with deliveries done at the retail centers.
- Liaise with retail center executives to ensure that inventory management standards are met, including but not limited to FIFO amongst others
- Liaise with the warehouse and retail centers executives to provide packaging for products that are defaced.
- Regular review of all processes currently in place aimed at achieving best inventory management practices.
- Be on the lookout for any new trends and emerging trends that relate to the industry that can be implemented to increase efficiency.
- Coordinate inventory reconciliation
- Validation of all products marked as obsolete and damaged that are to be returned to the warehouse.
- Engage field agents to periodically validate inventory holding
Compliance
- Ensuring basic maintenance standards and compliance with health and safety regulations at all retail centers, include but not limited to ensuring permits and licenses are displayed.
Innovation
- Be on the lookout for new trends within the supply chain field that will improve and enhance inventory management processes
- Recommend to management new processes, need to revamp process to efficiently assist the day-to-day operations of the retail centres
You might be a strong candidate if you:
- Hold a degree qualification preferably in Supply Chain Management, Statistics, or any Finance Related Field
- Have 2-3 years’ working experience in Finance, Supply Chain Management and/or Statistics.
- Demonstrate knowledge in contract management.
- Are able to work comfortably with and maintain large volumes of data in excel.
- Demonstrate knowledge and working experience with an ERP preferably SAP
- Can multi-task and address contesting priorities.
- Are goal-oriented and organized team player.
- Demonstrate proficiency in computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel)
- Possess excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Have the ability to work remotely under minimal supervision.
What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- 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 Center for Leadership.
We place great importance on sustaining a diverse, inclusive work environment.
We believe that innovation and understanding comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining an inclusive workplace requires conscious effort and is a continuous journey, not an end-state.
Sun King recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes people based on their experience, skills, effort, and results. We explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis
of race, religion, caste, national origin, color, gender, marital status, family structure, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status, or disability.
We believe that innovation and understanding comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining an inclusive workplace requires conscious effort and is a continuous journey, not an end-state.
Sun King recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes people based on their experience, skills, effort, and results. We explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis
of race, religion, caste, national origin, color, gender, marital status, family structure, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status, or disability.
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.
