Trade Marketing Associate, Nampula
Sun King
Marketing & Communications
Mozambique
Posted on Mar 13, 2025
Location: Nampula
About the role:
The Trade Marketing Associate will leverage their expertise in planning and implementing marketing and brand activation activities for the entire life cycle of all Sun King products and services.
The Trade Marketing Associate will leverage their expertise in planning and implementing marketing and brand activation activities for the entire life cycle of all Sun King products and services.
- Department
- Marketing & Creative
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Mozambique
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
- Marketing Lead, Mozambique
What you will be expected to do:
Trade Assistance.
- Work closely with the Business Managers to align trade marketing activities/campaigns.
- Take the initiative in the activity planning process, clarifying trade activity aim, activities, and schedule.
- Provide market, in-trade, and rival insights into the brand processes.
- Ensure synchronization of the trade activities with the overall brand plan.
- Planning and execution for new products and services launches.
- Conduct regular trade visits for research and to assess activations and launches in key markets.
- Pre & post marketing campaign evaluation through estimated ROI and market feedback as well as market data readings when applicable.
- Assess success & prepare closing reports for all campaigns and launches.
- Track monthly rival activities & generate monthly rival reports.
Trade Visibility.
- Work closely with the procurement team to requisition for branding materials, POSM, merchandise, and other resources required for visibility drives across the country.
- Management of all local council requirements related to visibility.
- Carry out audits as per market itineraries to evaluate execution of trade visibility as per required standard.
- Manage appointed agencies & train them on visibility guidelines and picture of success.
- Take the initiative in the development & deployment of all marketing materials.
- Furnish the input needed for budgeting for visibility and any other BTL materials.
Sun King Store branding.
- Ensure store location is at a vantage point and within Sun King standards
- Supervise and coordinate with suppliers to ensure timely execution of store branding as per signed off the artwork, set standards and Turn around timelines
- Carry out regular checks to ensure all Sun King stores are neat, maintained well and do not have clutter.
Agency Management.
- Develop and manage close relationships with agencies and suppliers.
- Drive cost productivity in procurement.
- Manage agencies in the implementation, execution and evaluation of marketing campaigns.
- Work closely with finance to partake activity costs forecasts for proper financial planning and efficient achievements.
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
- Advanced Degree/Diploma or equivalent from a recognized institution, preferably a background in business related field.
- At least 4 years’ background and core expertise in trade marketing; preferably in the FMCG, Telco or Solar Industry.
- An excellent team player with strong relational communication skills.
- Planning and organizational skills with the ability to manage projects.
- Highly results and performance oriented with the ability to solve problems and make critical recommendations.
- Self-motivated, self-starter who is willing to take initiative, ownership & accountability.
- Have the ability to develop strong internal and external partnerships and form strategic alliances.
- Pay attention to detail.
- Excellent negotiation/influencing and presentation skills.
- Ability to travel across the country (60% of your time will be spent in the field).
- Are currently located in or are willing to relocate to Nampula.
- Outstanding communication and social skills, with the ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders fluently in both written and spoken English and Portuguese.
What Sun King offers
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
- An open-minded, partnership culture made up of talented colleagues who are passionate by the need 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 mentor, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.
We place great importance on sustaining a diverse, open work environment.
We believe that innovation and insight comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining an opne 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.
