Regional Programs Optimization Lead, Anglophone
Sun King
Nigeria
Posted on Apr 28, 2025
Job location: Lagos, Nigeria
About the role:
Sun King is looking for an experienced Regional EB Program Optimization Manager to manage and drive our strategic expansion across Anglophone Africa (Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda). The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in both project management and program management, with a proven ability to execute complex initiatives and deliver impactful results across multiple markets.
About the role:
Sun King is looking for an experienced Regional EB Program Optimization Manager to manage and drive our strategic expansion across Anglophone Africa (Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda). The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in both project management and program management, with a proven ability to execute complex initiatives and deliver impactful results across multiple markets.
- Department
- EasyBuy Program Management
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Nigeria
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
What you will be expected to do
- Success architect: Partner with Country Representatives to develop and execute operational plans that deliver on our strategic vision.
- Program excellence: Ensuring every program is delivered on time, within budget, and exceeds quality expectations.
- Talent multiplier: Mentor and empower Country Program Managers/Associates, building a high-performing, team.
- Budget Management: Managing project budgets, ensuring financial compliance, and maximizing our resources.
- Data and impact-focused: Oversee monitoring and evaluation, using data to inform actions and clearly communicate our results.
- Master connector: Building and maintaining strong relationships with government officials, communities, partners, and other stakeholders is crucial.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are
- A Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent Diploma/Certificate with extensive experience) in a relevant field, and 3+ years of serious program management experience.
- Management Muscle: 4-5 years in a management role.
- Project Management Prowess: PMP/PgMP certification – with the credentials to back it up.
- A deep understanding of the development landscape and the problems we face.
- Analytical Firepower: The ability to analyze data, solve complex problems.
- Communication Mastery: Exceptional communication, people, and negotiation skills.
- Fluency in English, top-notch report-writing skills, and ideally, fluency in a local language.
- Willing to travel extensively (around 50% of your time) across the continent.
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.
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.
