Warehouse Associate - Tanzania
Sun King
Tanzania
Posted on May 15, 2025
Job Location: Across the Country
About the role:
The Warehouse Associate will oversee the day-to-day operations of the warehouse, including stock handling, stock accuracy, warehouse organisation, safety, and process improvement. This role will liaise with multiple teams, including Easy Buy (EB), After Sales, Partnerships, Marketing, and the broader Operations unit to ensure an efficient flow of stock and merchandise.
About the role:
The Warehouse Associate will oversee the day-to-day operations of the warehouse, including stock handling, stock accuracy, warehouse organisation, safety, and process improvement. This role will liaise with multiple teams, including Easy Buy (EB), After Sales, Partnerships, Marketing, and the broader Operations unit to ensure an efficient flow of stock and merchandise.
- Department
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Tanzania
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
What you would be expected to do
Inventory Management
- Monitor and maintain accurate stock records for all stock categories, including new stocks, merchandise, needs inspection items, spare parts, and harvested parts.
- Conduct regular physical stock counts and reconcile variances with system records.
- Ensure proper storage to maintain quality and prevent damage or loss.
- Coordinate inspection and IQC documentation for incoming stocks with relevant teams.
Receiving and Dispatching
- Oversee the receiving of all international deliveries, local purchases, inter-warehouse deliveries, and reverse logistics, ensuring proper sorting, documentation, and timely inspection.
- Coordinate with the Aftersales team to ensure the timely delivery of spare parts and the inspection of returned items.
- Work with the EB team and the Associate Manager, Operations, to optimise dispatch schedules for shop stock and inter-warehouse transfers.
- Ensure accurate system entries for all stock movements and facilitate timely system transfers.
Warehouse Organisation
- Design and maintain a well-organised warehouse layout to maximise space utilisation and improve workflow efficiency.
- Ensure all stocks are correctly labelled and stored in their designated locations.
- Implement and maintain best practices in warehousing to ensure cleanliness, accessibility, and overall operational order.
Safety and Compliance
- Enforce adherence to warehouse safety protocols and regulatory health and safety standards.
- Work with other team members to conduct routine checks and mitigate potential hazards.
Continuous Improvement and Cost Management
- Identify inefficiencies or areas for improvement in warehouse operations and propose actionable solutions.
- In coordination with the Associate Manager, Operations, implement changes and initiatives that enhance operational efficiency and reduce costs.
You might be a strong candidate if you
- Hold a Degree or Diploma in Supply Chain Management, Statistics, or a Finance-related field.
- Proven experience in warehouse or inventory management.
- Are Familiar with warehouse management systems and stock control procedures.
- Have knowledge and working experience with a robust ERP system, preferably S4HANA.
- Have the ability to work comfortably with and maintain large volumes of data in Excel.
- Have strong organisational and problem-solving skills
- Have awareness of safety regulations and practices
What Sun King Offers
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture with enthusiastic colleagues driven by the challenge of innovation and making a 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 King 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.
