Procurement Associate
Sun King
Operations
Malawi
Posted on Apr 8, 2025
Job Location: Malawi
About the role:
The Procurement Associate will provide operational expertise to ensure efficient and effective delivery of procurement services.
About the role:
The Procurement Associate will provide operational expertise to ensure efficient and effective delivery of procurement services.
- Department
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Malawi
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Reporting To
What you will be expected to do:
- Following and enforcing the company's procurement policies and procedures.
- Ensure cost rationalisation by carrying out price surveys to find price trends to help suppliers’ appraisal
- Reviewing, comparing, and analysing products and services to be procured as per company needs
- Maintaining and updating supplier information such as qualifications, delivery times, product ranges, etc.
- Maintaining good supplier relations and negotiating contracts
- Researching and evaluating prospective suppliers as per business requirements.
- Receiving supplier invoices and verifying information on Supporting documents (delivery notes and supply requisitions-LPO) in order to establish the accuracy of delivered LPOs and initiate the purchase to pay process (P2P)
- Conducting due diligence on prospective suppliers to ensure compliance with regulations, policies and procedures.
- Team up with key persons to ensure clarity of the specifications and expectations of the company
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies to reduce cost and improve product quality. Systematically identify optimised purchase quantities and delivery times.
- Measure and report key purchasing and inventory metrics.
- Mitigate Supply Chain risk through supplier qualification, development and alternatives.
- Contract review and management.
- Develop robust vendor relationships to maintain effective communication channels and ensure ongoing alignment across several operations teams
- Head vendor evaluation as well as KPI development
- Establish strong, working partnersips with key internal and external stakeholders to strategically develop, implement and optimise vendor management processes, tools and policies to achieve performance targets.
- Any other duties as assigned by your supervisor.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are
- A bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Procurement and Supplies Management, or related discipline from a recognized university. A professional certification or membership like CIPS, is an added advantage
- 2-3 years’ work experience in procurement and supplies in a multinational organisation or FMCG
- Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint and Excel)
- Knowledge and working experience with a robust ERP
- Reliable, credible and possesses a high degree of personal integrity and professionalism
- Demonstrates sound judgement, excellent data-driven, relational, communication, presentation and reporting skills
- Ability to work remotely under minimal supervision
- Passionate about working with rural, off-grid consumers and resolving their issues
What Sun King offers
- 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.
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.
